Kilgore
Kilgore is in the Central Piney Woods region of East Texas. Home to slightly less than 14,000 residents, Kilgore is often identified as the "Oil Capital of East Texas", due to its proximity near the center of the vast East Texas Oilfield.Photo: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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- Type: City with 15,000 residents
- Description: city in the state of Texas, United States
- Also known as: “Capital of the world’s largest oil field”, “City of Kilgore”, “City of Stars”, “Home of the Rangerettes”, “Kilgore Station”, “Kilgore, Texas”, “Kilgore, the Star City”, “Kilgore, TX”, “Oil capital of the world”, “Oil city of the world”, “The city of Kilgore”, and “The City of Stars”
- Postal codes: 75662 and 75663
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Anne Dean Turk Performing Arts Center and Driller Park.
Anne Dean Turk Performing Arts Center
Theater building
The Anne Dean Turk Performing Arts Center also called the Anne Dean Turk Fine Arts Center is a performing arts venue and art museum located on the campus of Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas.
Driller Park
Stadium
Driller Park was originally a minor league baseball stadium in Kilgore, Texas, US, constructed in 1947 for the Kilgore Drillers and refurbished in 2008 for the East Texas Pump Jacks of the Texas Collegiate League.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Downtown Kilgore.
Downtown Kilgore
Neighborhood
Kilgore is a city in the Gregg and Rusk counties in Texas, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 13,376. It is located where Interstate 20 and US 259 converge south of the Sabine River.
Kilgore
- Categories: city in the United States, city in the state of Texas, college town, tourist destination, and locality
- Location: Gregg, Texas, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.3867° or 32° 23′ 12″ northLongitude
-94.8755° or 94° 52′ 32″ westPopulation
15,000Elevation
358 feet (109 metres)Inception
1872Open location code
864794PF+MROpenStreetMap ID
node 151456024OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
4703199Wikidata ID
Q973998
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Kilgore” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كيلغور”
- Arabic: “مَدِينَةُ النُّجُومِ”
- Basque: “Kilgore”
- Bulgarian: “Килгоре”
- Catalan: “Kilgore”
- Cebuano: “Kilgore”
- Chechen: “Килгор”
- Chinese: “Kilgore”
- Chinese: “基尔戈”
- Chinese: “基尔戈尔”
- Croatian: “Kilgore”
- Czech: “Kilgore”
- Dagbani: “Kilgore”
- Danish: “Kilgore”
- Dutch: “Kilgore”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كيلجور”
- French: “Kilgore”
- German: “Kilgore”
- German: “Stadt der Sterne”
- Gilaki: “کیلگور”
- Gothic: “𐌺𐌹𐌻𐌲𐌰𐌿𐍂”
- Haitian: “Kilgore, Texas”
- Haitian: “Kilgore”
- Hawaiian: “Kiligore (Kekeka)”
- Hawaiian: “Kiligore”
- Hebrew: “קילגור”
- Hindi: “किलगोर”
- Irish: “Kilgore”
- Italian: “Kilgore”
- Japanese: “キルゴール”
- Japanese: “キルゴア”
- Korean: “킬고어”
- Ladin: “Kilgore”
- Latin: “Arx Kilgoriensis”
- Latin: “Domus Rangerettarum”
- Latin: “Kilgore”
- Latin: “Kilgorium”
- Latin: “Kilgorivm”
- Latin: “KILGORIVM”
- Latin: “Urbs Stellarum”
- Malagasy: “Kilgore, Texas”
- Malagasy: “Kilgore”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kilgore”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kilgore”
- Norwegian: “Kilgore”
- Persian: “کیلگور، تگزاس”
- Persian: “کیلگور”
- Polish: “Kilgore”
- Portuguese: “Kilgore”
- Russian: “Килгор”
- Serbian: “Килгор”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kilgore, Texas”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kilgore”
- Slovak: “Kilgore”
- South Azerbaijani: “کیلقور، تکزاس”
- Spanish: “Ciudad de Kilgore.”
- Spanish: “El Dirty K”
- Spanish: “K-Town”
- Spanish: “Kilgore (Tejas)”
- Spanish: “Kilgore (Texas)”
- Spanish: “Kilgore, Texas”
- Spanish: “Kilgore, TX”
- Spanish: “Kilgore”
- Spanish: “La ciudad de Kilgore”
- Swedish: “Kilgore”
- Tatar: “Килгор”
- Turkish: “Kilgore, Teksas”
- Turkish: “Kilgore”
- Ukrainian: “Кілгор”
- Uzbek: “Kilgore”
- Uzbek: “Килгоре”
- Vietnamese: “Kilgore, Texas”
- Vietnamese: “Kilgore”
- Volapük: “Kilgore”
- Welsh: “Kilgore, Texas”
- Welsh: “Kilgore”
- “Kilgore”
- “Kilgore, Texas”
- “Kilgore, TX”
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