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Wichita Falls

Wichita Falls is a town in the of , named for Wichita Indians who lived near waterfalls on what is now the Wichita River. In 1882, Fort Worth and Denver Railroad brought the first train to the area, establishing the town as an agricultural and trade center.
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  • Type: City with 102,000 residents
  • Description: city in and county seat of Wichita County, Texas, United States
  • Also known as: “Wichita Falls, Texas” and “Wichita Falls, TX”
  • Postal codes: 76301, 76302, and 76305-76310

Places of Interest

Highlights include World’s littlest skyscraper and Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Newby–McMahon Building, commonly referred to as the world's littlest skyscraper, is located at 701 La Salle in downtown Wichita Falls, Texas. It is a late Neoclassical style red brick and cast stone structure.

Church
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Church
Photo: Liveon001, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Wichita Falls

Latitude
33.9005° or 33° 54′ 2″ north
Longitude
-98.5021° or 98° 30′ 8″ west
Population
102,000
Elevation
948 feet (289 metres)
IATA airport code
SPS
United Nations Location Code
US SPS
Open location code
8653WF2X+55
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151701373
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4741752
Wiki­data ID
Q128349
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yakut—“Wichita Falls” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ويتشيتا فولز (تكساس)”
  • Arabic: “ويتشيتا فولز، تكساس”
  • Arabic: “ويتشيتا فولز”
  • Armenian: “Ուիչիտա Ֆոլս”
  • Asturian: “Wichita Falls”
  • Basque: “Wichita Falls”
  • Belarusian: “Уічыта-Фолс”
  • Bulgarian: “Уичита Фолс”
  • Catalan: “Wichita Falls”
  • Cebuano: “Wichita Falls”
  • Central Kurdish: “وێچیتا فۆڵس”
  • Chechen: “Вичита-Фолс”
  • Chinese: “威奇托福尔斯”
  • Chinese: “威奇托福爾斯”
  • Croatian: “Wichita Falls, Teksas”
  • Croatian: “Wichita Falls”
  • Czech: “Wichita Falls”
  • Dagbani: “Wichita Falls”
  • Danish: “Wichita Falls”
  • Dutch: “Wichita Falls”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ويتشيتا فولز”
  • Esperanto: “Wichita Falls”
  • Estonian: “Wichita Falls”
  • Faroese: “Wichita Falls”
  • Finnish: “Wichita Falls”
  • French: “Wichita Falls”
  • Georgian: “უიჩიტო-ფოლზი”
  • German: “Wichita Falls”
  • Gilaki: “ويچيتا فالز”
  • Greek: “Γουίτσιτα Φολς”
  • Haitian: “Wichita Falls, Texas”
  • Haitian: “Wichita Falls”
  • Hebrew: “ויצ’יטה פולס, טקסס”
  • Hebrew: “ויצ’יטה פולס”
  • Hindi: “विचिटा फ़ॉल्स, टेक्सस”
  • Hungarian: “Wichita Falls”
  • Irish: “Wichita Falls, Texas”
  • Irish: “Wichita Falls”
  • Italian: “Wichita Falls”
  • Japanese: “ウィチタ・フォールズ”
  • Japanese: “ウィチタフォールズ”
  • Korean: “위치토폴스”
  • Ladin: “Wichita Falls”
  • Lithuanian: “Vičita Folsas”
  • Malagasy: “Wichita Falls, Texas”
  • Malagasy: “Wichita Falls”
  • Marathi: “विचिटा फॉल्स”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wichita Falls”
  • Norwegian: “Wichita Falls”
  • Persian: “ویچیتا فالز، تگزاس”
  • Persian: “ویچیتا فالز”
  • Polish: “Wichita Falls”
  • Portuguese: “Wichita Falls”
  • Russian: “Уичито-Фолс”
  • Scots: “Wichita Falls”
  • Serbian: “Wichita Falls”
  • Serbian: “Вичита Фолс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Wichita Falls, Texas”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Wichita Falls”
  • Silesian: “Wichita Falls”
  • Slovak: “Wichita Falls”
  • Slovenian: “Wichita Falls”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ویچیتا فالز، تکزاس”
  • Spanish: “Wichita Falls (Texas)”
  • Spanish: “Wichita Falls”
  • Swahili: “Wichita Falls, Texas”
  • Swahili: “Wichita Falls”
  • Swedish: “Wichita Falls”
  • Tatar: “Вичита-Фолс”
  • Turkish: “Wichita Falls, Teksas”
  • Turkish: “Wichita Falls”
  • Ukrainian: “Вічита-Фоллс”
  • Ukrainian: “Вічита-Фолс”
  • Urdu: “ویچیتا فالز، ٹیکساس”
  • Urdu: “ویچیتا فالز”
  • Uzbek: “Wichita Falls”
  • Venetian: “Wichita Falls”
  • Vietnamese: “Wichita Falls, Texas”
  • Vietnamese: “Wichita Falls”
  • Volapük: “Wichita Falls”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Wichita Falls, Texas”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Wichita Falls”
  • Welsh: “Wichita Falls, Texas”
  • Welsh: “Wichita Falls”
  • Western Panjabi: “وچیٹا فالز”
  • Yakut: “Уичито Фолс”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Wichita Falls”. Photo: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0.