Lubbock (/ˈlʌbək/ LUB-ək) is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Lubbock County. With a population of 266,878 in 2023, the city is...
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Lubbock County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. The 2020 census placed the population at 310,639. Its county seat and largest city is Lubbock...
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Portions of Lubbock, Texas, were struck by a powerful multiple-vortex tornado after nightfall on May 11, 1970, resulting in 26 fatalities and an estimated...
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Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport (IATA: LBB, ICAO: KLBB, FAA LID: LBB) is five miles north of Lubbock, in Lubbock County, Texas, United States...
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season. Home games are played at Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock, Texas. Texas Tech (then known as Texas Technological College) fielded its first intercollegiate...
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Texas Tech University (Texas Tech, Tech, or TTU) is a public research university in Lubbock, Texas. Established on February 10, 1923, and called Texas...
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service as the Texas State Treasurer. He was the brother of Thomas Saltus Lubbock, for whom both Lubbock County and the city of Lubbock are named. Francis...
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The Lubbock Lights were an unusual formation of lights seen over the city of Lubbock, Texas in August and September 1951. The Lubbock Lights incident...
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Lubbock Christian University (LCU) is a private Christian university associated with the Churches of Christ and located in Lubbock, Texas. Chartered originally...
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The Red Raiders will play their home games at Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock, Texas, and will compete as members of the Big 12 Conference. They are expected...
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mayors of Lubbock, Texas. Mayoral elections in Lubbock Timeline of Lubbock, Texas Rush, George P (1934). The Formative Years of Lubbock, Texas, 1909–1917...
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Lubbock High School is a 5A high school serving grades nine to twelve in Lubbock, Texas, as part of the Lubbock Independent School District, The school...
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Lubbock, Texas, USA. 1876 - Lubbock County established; named after Thomas Saltus Lubbock. 1890 - Lubbock settlement formed by merger of Old Lubbock and...
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people and their raw and wondrous land. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 176 pp. Webb, W.P. 1935. The Texas Rangers: a century of frontier defense...
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The Lubbock Texas Temple is the 109th operating temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The Lubbock Texas Temple joins...
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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...
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Lubbock-Cooper Independent School District (LCISD) is a 5-A school district located south of the city of Lubbock, Texas (USA), centered on the small community...
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eligible for re-election. El Paso, Texas: One-term incumbent Oscar Leeser is running for re-election. Lubbock, Texas: One-term incumbent Trey Payne is...
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in Lubbock, Texas to elect the city's mayor. Currently, such elections are regularly scheduled to elect mayors to two-year terms. The 2006 Lubbock mayoral...
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System is a public university system in Texas with five member universities. Headquartered in Lubbock, Texas, the Texas Tech University System is a nearly...
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Saltus Lubbock (November 29, 1817 – January 9, 1862) was a figure in Texas and the Confederacy. Born in South Carolina, he relocated to Texas and became...
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April 10, 1879. The court convenes in Dallas, Texas with divisions in Fort Worth, Amarillo, Abilene, Lubbock, San Angelo, and Wichita Falls. It has jurisdiction...
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Barry Corbin (category Monterey High School (Lubbock, Texas) alumni)
graduated from Monterey High School in Lubbock, Texas. Corbin studied theatre arts at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. At 21, he joined the U.S. Marine Corps...
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Buddy Holly (category Musicians from Lubbock, Texas)
figure of mid-1950s rock and roll. He was born to a musical family in Lubbock, Texas, during the Great Depression, and learned to play guitar and sing alongside...
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Natalie Maines (category People from Lubbock, Texas)
born in Lubbock, Texas, to country musician and producer Lloyd Maines and Tina May Maines. She attended Nat Williams Elementary School in Lubbock, where...
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Lubbock Municipal Coliseum (formerly City Bank Coliseum) was an 8,344-seat multi-purpose arena in Lubbock, Texas. Although the arena was located on the...
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The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) is a public medical school based in Lubbock, Texas, with additional campuses in Abilene, Amarillo...
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Less than two months later, the couple married on August 15, 1958, in Lubbock, Texas. On February 3, 1959, Buddy Holly died in a plane crash along with fellow...
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The Texas Tech Red Raiders and Lady Raiders are the athletic teams that represent Texas Tech University, located in Lubbock, Texas. The women's basketball...
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Jill Goodacre (category People from Lubbock, Texas)
Concert) in 1992, and she appears in several of his music videos. Born in Lubbock, Texas, Goodacre was raised in Boulder, Colorado. She is the daughter of real...
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