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.
- Type: Town with 13,400 residents
- Description: city in the state of Texas, United States
- Also known as: “Arx Kilgoriensis”, “Capital of the world’s largest oil field”, “City of Kilgore”, “City of Stars”, “Ciudad de Kilgore.”, “Domus Rangerettarum”, “El Dirty K”, “Home of the Rangerettes”, “K-Town”, “Kilgore (Tejas)”, “Kilgore (Texas)”, “Kilgore Station”, “Kilgore, Texas”, “Kilgore, the Star City”, “Kilgore, TX”, “Kilgorivm”, “KILGORIVM”, “Kiligore (Kekeka)”, “La ciudad de Kilgore”, “Oil capital of the world”, “Oil city of the world”, “Stadt der Sterne”, “The city of Kilgore”, “The City of Stars”, “Urbs Stellarum”, and “مَدِينَةُ النُّجُومِ”
- Postal codes: 75662 and 75663
Places of Interest
Highlights: Kilgore Public Library and Anne Dean Turk Performing Arts Center.
Anne Dean Turk Performing Arts Center
Theater building
The Anne Dean Turk Performing Arts Center also called…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Downtown Kilgore.
Kilgore
- Categories: city in the United States, city, city 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″ north
Longitude
-94.8755° or 94° 52′ 32″ west
Population
13,400
Elevation
358 feet (109 metres)
Established
1872
Open location code
864794PF+MR
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Kilgore” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كيلغور”
- Basque: “Kilgore”
- Bulgarian: “Килгоре”
- Catalan: “Kilgore”
- Cebuano: “Kilgore”
- Chechen: “Килгор”
- 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”
- Gilaki: “کیلگور”
- Gothic: “𐌺𐌹𐌻𐌲𐌰𐌿𐍂”
- Haitian: “Kilgore, Texas”
- Haitian: “Kilgore”
- 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: “Kilgore”
- Latin: “Kilgorium”
- 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: “Kilgore”
- Swedish: “Kilgore”
- Tatar: “Килгор”
- Turkish: “Kilgore, Teksas”
- Turkish: “Kilgore”
- Ukrainian: “Кілгор”
- Urdu: “کلگور، ٹیکساس”
- Uzbek: “Kilgore”
- Vietnamese: “Kilgore, Texas”
- Vietnamese: “Kilgore”
- Volapük: “Kilgore”
- Welsh: “Kilgore, Texas”
- Welsh: “Kilgore”
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