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Fort Worth Air Route Traffic Control Center
The Fort Worth Air Route Traffic Control Center (ZFW) (radio communications: Fort Worth Center) is located at 13800 FAA Road, Fort Worth, Texas, United States 76155. The Fort Worth ARTCC is one of 22 Air Route Traffic Control Centers in the United States. Fort Worth Center handles aircraft movements across more than 174,000 square miles in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas. Fort Worth Center is the seventh busiest ARTCC in the United States. In 2024, Fort Worth Center handled 2,341,168 aircraft. Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport is north of the control center. Airports served by the Fort Worth ARTCC Commercial airports * Arkansas ** Texarkana Regional Airport (Texarkana) * Louisiana ** Monroe Regional Airport (Monroe) ** Shreveport Regional Airport (Shreveport) * Oklahoma ** Lawton-Fort Sill Regional Airport ( Lawton) ** Will Rogers World Airport (Oklahoma City) * Texas ** Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport ( Euless/Grapevine/ Irving, near Dallas and Fort Wort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Worth, Texas
Fort Worth is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Tarrant County, Texas, Tarrant County, covering nearly into Denton County, Texas, Denton, Johnson County, Texas, Johnson, Parker County, Texas, Parker, and Wise County, Texas, Wise counties. Fort Worth's population was estimated to be 1,008,156 in 2024, making it the List of United States cities by population, 11th-most populous city in the United States. Fort Worth is the city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, after Dallas, Texas, Dallas, and the metropolitan area is the List of metropolitan statistical areas, fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the United States and the List of Texas metropolitan areas, most populous in Texas. The city of Fort Worth was established in 1849 as an army outpost on a bluff overlooking the Trinity River (Texas), Trinity River. Fort Worth has historically been a center of the Texas Longhorn cattle trade. It still embraces its Western heritage and traditional architec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Oklahoma City (), officially the City of Oklahoma City, and often shortened to OKC, is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of municipalities in Oklahoma, most populous city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The county seat of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, Oklahoma County, its population ranks List of United States cities by population, 20th among United States cities and 8th in the Southern United States. The population grew following the 2010 Census and reached 681,054 in the 2020 United States census. The Oklahoma City metropolitan area had a population of 1,396,445, and the Oklahoma City–Shawnee, Oklahoma, Shawnee Combined Statistical Area had a population of 1,469,124, making it Oklahoma's largest municipality and metropolitan area by population. Oklahoma City's city limits extend somewhat into Canadian County, Oklahoma, Canadian, Cleveland County, Oklahoma, Cleveland, and Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, Pottawatomie counties. However, much of those areas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lubbock, Texas
Lubbock ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Lubbock County. With a population of 272,086 in 2024, Lubbock is the 10th-most populous city in Texas and the 84th-most populous in the United States. The city is in the northwestern part of the state, in the Great Plains region, an area known historically and geographically as the Llano Estacado, and ecologically is part of the southern end of the High Plains, lying at the economic center of the Lubbock metropolitan area, which had an estimated population of 367,109 in 2024. Lubbock's nickname, "Hub City", derives from it being the economic, educational, and healthcare hub of the multicounty region, located north of the Permian Basin and south of the Texas Panhandle, commonly called the South Plains. The area is the largest contiguous cotton-growing region in the world and is heavily dependent on water from the Ogallala Aquifer for irrigation. Lubbock is home to Texas Tech University, the sixth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport
Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport is five miles north of Lubbock, in Lubbock County, Texas, United States. Originally Lubbock International Airport, it was renamed in 2004 for former Texas governor Preston E. Smith, an alumnus of Texas Tech University. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 classifies it as a ''primary commercial service'' airport. Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 520,181 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2019, and 487,000 in 2018. The airport is the eighth-busiest airport in Texas. Lubbock International is first among the smaller Texas cities (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. History The airport opened in November 1937 as South Plains Airport. In 1942 the United States Army Air Forces indicated a need for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Longview, Texas
Longview is a city in, and county seat of, Gregg County, Texas, United States. Longview is located in East Texas, where Interstate 20 and U.S. Highway system, U.S. highways U.S. Route 80, 80 and U.S. Route 259, 259 converge just north of the Sabine River (Texas–Louisiana), Sabine River. According to the 2020 United States Census, 2020 U.S. census, the city had a population of 81,638. Longview is the principal city of the Longview, Texas metropolitan area, Longview metropolitan statistical area, comprising Gregg, Upshur County, Texas, Upshur, and Rusk County, Texas, Rusk counties. The population of the metropolitan area as of 2021 census estimates was 287,858. Longview was established in 1870 in what was at the time southern Upshur County; the town incorporated in 1871. After Gregg County was created in 1873, Longview was voted the county seat. Today, Longview is considered a major hub city for the region, as is the nearby city of Tyler, Texas, Tyler. Companies with significant p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregg County, Texas
Gregg County is a county located in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 124,239. Its county seat is Longview. The county is named after John Gregg, a Confederate general killed in action during the American Civil War. Gregg County is part of the Longview, Texas metropolitan area and the Longview–Marshall, Texas combined statistical area. Discovery of oil near Kilgore in October 1930 was the beginning of an oil boom that attracted workers to the county and expanded the population by more than 500% by 1940, according to the census. By that time, the economy had stabilized, but the East Texas Oil Field, extending into five counties, has continued to be important to the county and region's economy. History This area was among early sections settled by United States immigrants before Texas became an independent republic, and after 1845, a state of the United States. It was an area developed as cotton plantations depende ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Texas Regional Airport
East Texas Regional Airport is an airport located in an unincorporated area, in Gregg County, Texas, United States. The airport is just south of the city of Lakeport, and is south of Longview. Its IATA identifier GGG comes from its prior name, Gregg County Airport. The airport is used for general aviation and military training; it has scheduled flights to Dallas/Fort Worth on American Airlines/ American Eagle. Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 24,835 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 24,944 in 2009 and 21,830 in 2010. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a ''primary commercial service'' airport (more than 10,000 enplanements per year). East Texas Regional is home to LeTourneau University'School of Aeronautical Science LeTourneau constitutes a very large portion of the airport's traffic and has a fleet of airplanes ranging from Cessna 172s to Citabrias and Piper PA-44 Semino ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Killeen, Texas
Killeen is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, located in Bell County. According to the 2020 census, its population was 153,095, making it the 19th-most populous city in Texas and the largest of the three principal cities of Bell County. It is the principal city of the Killeen–Temple–Fort Hood Metropolitan Statistical Area. Killeen is north of Austin, southwest of Dallas, and northeast of San Antonio. Killeen is directly adjacent to the main cantonment of Fort Hood. Its economy depends on the activities of the post, and the soldiers and their families stationed there. It is known as a military "boom town" because of its rapid growth and high influx of soldiers. History In 1881, the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway extended its tracks through central Texas, buying a few miles southwest of a small farming community known as Palo Alto, which had existed since about 1872. The railroad platted a 70-block town on its land and named it after Frank P. Killeen, the as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bell County, Texas
Bell County is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state of Texas. It is in Central Texas and its county seat is Belton, Texas, Belton. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, its population was 370,647. Bell County is part of the Killeen, Texas, Killeen–Temple, Texas, Temple, Texas, Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood metropolitan area, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county was founded in 1850 and is named for Peter Hansborough Bell, the third List of Governors of Texas, governor of Texas. In 2010, the center of population of Texas was located in Bell County, near the town of Holland, Texas, Holland. History In 1834–1835, Little River became part of Robertson's Colony, made up of settlers from Nashville, Tennessee, led by Sterling C. Robertson; they were the families of Captain Goldsby Childers, Robert Davison, John Fulcher, Moses Griffin, John Needham, Michael Reed and his son William Whitaker Reed, William Taylor, and Judge Orville T. Tyler. This area became k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Killeen Regional Airport
Killeen Regional Airport is a small military/commercial joint-use airport that operates alongside Robert Gray Army Airfield. The airport is based inside the south end of the Fort Cavazos Military Reservation (known as West Fort Hood), six nautical miles (7 mi, 11 km) southwest of the central business district of Killeen, Texas, in unincorporated Bell County. The commercial side replaced the old Killeen Municipal Airport (now Skylark Field) in August, 2004 as that airport was unable to expand. Formerly Killeen–Fort Hood Regional Airport, on 26 September, 2023, the airport began the multi-month process of renaming to "Killeen Regional Airport", as approved by the Killeen City Council. As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 232,299 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 231,500 enplanements in 2009, and 243,861 in 2010. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dallas Love Field
Dallas Love Field is a city-owned public airport in the neighborhood of Love Field, Dallas, Love Field, northwest of downtown Dallas, Texas., effective April 17, 2025. It was Dallas' main airport until 1974 when Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) opened. Love Field covers an area of at an elevation of above mean sea level and has two runways. Love Field is the birthplace, corporate headquarters, and a major operating base of Southwest Airlines; as of August 2021, Southwest has a 95% market share at the airport. Several full-service fixed-base operators (FBOs) provide general aviation services: fuel, maintenance, hangar rentals, and air charters. The City of Dallas Department of Aviation headquarters is on the airport grounds. History Dallas Love Field is named after Moss L. Love, who, while assigned to the United States Army, U.S. Army 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, 11th Cavalry, died in an airplane crash near San Diego, California, on September 4, 1913, becomin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dallas, Texas
Dallas () is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the List of Texas metropolitan areas, most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the Metropolitan statistical area, fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people. It is the most populous city in and the county seat, seat of Dallas County, Texas, Dallas County, covering nearly 386 square miles into Collin County, Texas, Collin, Denton County, Texas, Denton, Kaufman County, Texas, Kaufman, and Rockwall County, Texas, Rockwall counties. With a 2020 United States census, 2020 census population of 1,304,379, it is the List of United States cities by population, ninth-most populous city in the U.S. and the List of cities in Texas by population, third-most populous city in Texas after Houston and San Antonio. Located in the North Texas region, the city of Dallas is the main core of the largest metropolitan area in the Southern Unite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
