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GNIS feature ID. 1374760 [2] Website. ci .lubbock .tx .us. Lubbock ( / ˈlʌbək / LUB-ək) [7] is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Lubbock County. With a population of 266,878 in 2023, [3] the city is the 10th-most populous city in Texas and the 84th-most populous in the United States. [8]
University Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas is a public, non-profit 500-bed hospital. UMC is the primary hospital of the MC Health System and is owned by the taxpayers of Lubbock County. It serves as the primary teaching hospital for the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC). [1] UMC had the first Level 1 Trauma Center in West ...
Reese Technology Center began as the Lubbock Army Air Corps Advanced Flying School in 1942. [1] It was renamed Lubbock Army Flying School in 1943 and then Lubbock Army Airfield later that same year. In 1949, it was renamed Reese Air Force Base in honor of a local West Texas pilot, Augustus F. Reese, Jr., who was killed in a bombing raid over ...
The Lubbock Memorial Civic Center is a convention center located in Lubbock, Texas. It was built in 1977 and dedicated to the memory of local residents who died in the Lubbock tornado of 1970 that struck the site of the center. Concluding in November 2015, the building underwent extensive renovation work, covering bathrooms, meeting rooms ...
Covenant Health was founded in 1998 through the merger of two of Lubbock's health care facilities, St. Mary of the Plains Hospital and the Lubbock Methodist Hospital System. History [ edit ] In 1918 the thirty-five bed Lubbock Sanitarium, was established, by Drs. J. T. Hutchinson, O.F. Peebler and A. R. Ponton on land donated by Dr. Marvin ...
The airport is the eighth-busiest airport in Texas. Lubbock International is first among the smaller Texas cities [citation needed] (behind both Dallas airports, both Houston airports, San Antonio, Austin, and El Paso). Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport is a hub for FedEx and UPS feeder planes to cities around the South Plains.
Monterey High School is a 5A high school located in central Lubbock, Texas, United States (Monterey High School became a 6A school at the beginning of the 2014–2015 academic year per the UIL realignment announcement of February 2012). Monterey is part of the Lubbock Independent School District. Established in 1955, Monterey was the third high ...
Lubbock County, Texas. / 33.61°N 101.82°W / 33.61; -101.82. The first Lubbock County Courthouse was used from 1891 to 1916. The second Lubbock County Courthouse remained open until 1968, though a third courthouse had been built in 1950. Lubbock County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.