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'{{Infobox settlement |official_name = Clarendon, Texas |settlement_type = [[City]] |nickname = |motto = <!-- Images --> |image_skyline = Old West sign IMG 0653.JPG |imagesize = |image_caption = Clarendon welcome sign on [[United States Highway 287]] |image_flag = |image_seal = <!-- Maps --> |image_map = TXMap-doton-Clarendon.PNG |mapsize = 250px |map_caption = Location of Clarendon, Texas |image_map1 = Donley County Clarendon.svg |mapsize1 = 250px |map_caption1 = <!-- Location --> |coordinates_region = US-TX |subdivision_type = [[List of countries|Country]] |subdivision_name = United States |subdivision_type1 = [[Political divisions of the United States|State]] |subdivision_name1 = [[Texas]] |subdivision_type2 = [[List of counties in Texas|County]] |subdivision_name2 = [[Donley County, Texas|Donley]] <!-- Government --> |government_footnotes = |government_type = |leader_title = |leader_name = |leader_title1 = |leader_name1 = |established_title = |established_date = <!-- Area --> |unit_pref = Imperial |area_footnotes = |area_magnitude = |area_total_km2 = 7.8 |area_land_km2 = 7.5 |area_water_km2 = 0.3 |area_total_sq_mi = 3.0 |area_land_sq_mi = 2.9 |area_water_sq_mi = 0.1 <!-- Population --> |population_as_of = [[United States Census, 2000|2000]] |population_footnotes = |population_total = 1974 |population_density_km2 = 262.2 |population_density_sq_mi = 679.0 <!-- General information --> |timezone = [[North American Central Time Zone|Central (CST)]] |utc_offset = -6 |timezone_DST = CDT |utc_offset_DST = -5 |elevation_footnotes = |elevation_m = 833 |elevation_ft = 2733 |coordinates_display = inline,title |coordinates_type = region:US_type:city |latd = 34 |latm = 56 |lats = 11 |latNS = N |longd = 100 |longm = 53 |longs = 28 |longEW = W <!-- Area/postal codes & others --> |postal_code_type = [[ZIP code]] |postal_code = 79226 |area_code = [[Area code 806|806]] |blank_name = [[Federal Information Processing Standard|FIPS code]] |blank_info = 48-15112{{GR|2}} |blank1_name = [[Geographic Names Information System|GNIS]] feature ID |blank1_info = 1354555{{GR|3}} |website = |footnotes = }} [[Image:Drive-in IMG 0657.JPG|thumb|255px|left|Having been closed in 1984, the Sandell [[Drive-in theater|Drive-in Theater]] reopened in Clarendon in August 2002.]] [[Image:Old map-Clarendon-1890.jpg|thumb|255px|right|Map of the city in 1890]] [[Image:Granary IMG 0659.JPG|thumb|255px|right|The grain elevator in Clarendon]] [[Image:Clarendon streets IMG 0658.JPG|thumb|255px|right|thumb|<font size=2>The streets of Clarendon</font size=2>]] '''Clarendon''' is a city in [[Donley County, Texas|Donley County]], [[Texas]], United States. The [[population]] was 1,974 at the [[2000 United States Census|2000 census]]. The [[county seat]] of [[Donley County, Texas|Donley County]],{{GR|6}} Clarendon is located on [[United States Highway 287]] in the [[Texas Panhandle]] some sixty miles east of [[Amarillo, Texas|Amarillo]]. It was established in 1878 by [[Methodist]] [[clergy]]man '''L.H. Carhart''' as a "sobriety settlement" in contrast to typical [[boomtown|boom town]]s of that era. It acquired the [[sobriquet]] "Saints Roost" from local [[cowboy]]s: hence the unusual name of the Clarendon [[museum]], the [[Saints' Roost Museum]].<ref>[http://www.texas-on-line.com/graphic/clarendn.htm Texas Online: Clarendon, Texas<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> The Sandell Drive-In, built by Gary Barnhill (born 1920) and named after for his daughters, Sandra and Adele, opened on [[Texas State Highway 70]] in 1955 and closed in 1984. In 2001, John Earl Morrow (born ca. 1954), a Clarendon resident and owner of Morrow Drilling and Service, purchased the property from the Barnhills and in August 2002 re-opened the drive-in. The facility, which can handle three hundred cars, is operated by Morrow and volunteers during the summers. Morrow was motivated to bring back the facility because he had viewed films there during his childhood.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cinematreasures.org/theater/9730/|title=Sandell Drive-In|publisher=cinematreasures.org|accessdate=August 19, 2010}}</ref> ==Notable residents== For a community of such small population, Clarendon has been the home of numerous notable persons. * [[Aviation]] historian [[Randy Acord]] (1919–2008), a Clarendon native, founded the Alaska Air Pioneer Museum in [[Fairbanks, Alaska|Fairbanks]], where he had been stationed as a [[test pilot]] in 1943. Acord won the Alaska-Siberia Lend Lease Award for his contributions to [[Russia]]n-[[North America]]n relations during [[World War II]]. * JA Ranch [[matriarch]] [[Cornelia Adair|Cornelia Wadsworth Ritchie Adair]] maintained a house in Clarendon and was a benefactor of many Donley County charities. The Saints' Roost Museum in Clarendon is the restoration of her former Adair Hospital. She was active too in the [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopal]] Church in Clarendon. She also maintained residences in England, having become a naturalized British subject, and in [[Ireland]], where she lived part of the year at her late husband's [[Glenveagh Castle]]. She is buried in Ireland. * [[Harold Dow Bugbee]], [[artist]] of ranching on the [[South Plains|Texas South Plains]] and the Panhandle, maintained his family near Clarendon. He was also the art curator of the Panhandle-Plains Museum for many years prior to his death in 1963. Bugbee's second wife, '''Olive Vandruff Bugbee''', an artist in her own right, lived at the Harold Dow Bugbee Ranch from the time of her brief marriage to Bugbee in 1961 until her death in 2003. The couple left the ranch estate to the Panhandle Plains Museum. * The [[historian]] [[Harley True Burton]], a former president of Clarendon College, served as the town [[mayor]] from 1955–1963. Burton wrote ''The History of the JA Ranch'', co-owned by [[John George Adair]] of [[Ireland]] and [[Charles Goodnight]], who spent his later years in Clarendon. * Renowned [[Bison|buffalo]] hunter [[Frank Collinson]] (1855–1943) lived primarily in [[Childress, Texas|Childress]], but is buried in Clarendon. * Clarendon is the hometown of former [[Oklahoma Sooners]] standout running back [[Kenny King (running back)|Kenny King]]. He also played for the [[Oakland Raiders]]. King set a [[Super Bowl]] record for the longest touchdown reception with an 80-yarder in the Raiders 27-10 Super Bowl XV victory over the [[Philadelphia Eagles]]. That record stood until January 26, 1997. * [[Clarence Hailey Long]], the inspiration for the original [[Marlboro Man]] [[tobacco]] [[advertising]] campaign, lived his later years in Clarendon. A former employee of the [[JA Ranch]], he joined the First [[Baptist]] Church in Clarendon in 1953, after the death of his father in a [[bronco]] accident.<ref>C. H. Long, Jr., exhibit, [[Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum]] at [[Canyon, Texas|Canyon]]</ref> * [[William S. Lott]] (1918–2009), was a district judge in [[Williamson County, Texas|Williamson County]] for 16 years. He was born in Clarendon, and lived there until graduating from [[high school]]. He worked at first as a [[lawyer]], then a [[judge]], in a legal career that spanned seventy years. The William S. Lott Juvenile Center, in [[Georgetown, Texas]] is named after him. * [[Odell McBrayer]] (1930–2008), a [[Fort Worth, Texas|Fort Worth]] [[Lawyer|attorney]], grew up in Clarendon. He was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for governor in 1974, having lost his primary to [[Jim Granberry]], former mayor of [[Lubbock, Texas|Lubbock]]. McBrayer was affiliated with the [[Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International]].<ref>[http://www.tulsaworld.com/transitions/article.aspx?articleID=20080321_6_A10_hTULS10336 Tulsa World: Deaths<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> * [[Blues music|Blues]] [[musician]] William Daniel McFalls, better known as [[Blues Boy Willie]], lived in Clarendon during the middle 1960s, when he studied [[guitar]] and [[upright bass]] at [[Clarendon College]]. * [[Montie Ritchie|Montgomery Harrison Wadsworth Ritchie]] (1910–1999), grandson of Cornelia Adair, managed the JA from 1935 until his retirement in 1993 and hence maintained a Clarendon address. * [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] [[U.S. Representative]] [[Mac Thornberry|William Mac Thornberry]], who represents the Texas Panhandle in a district which stretches from Amarillo east to [[Wichita Falls, Texas|Wichita Falls]], was born in Clarendon in 1958. ==Geography== Clarendon is located at {{coord|34|56|11|N|100|53|28|W|type:city}} (34.936415, -100.891182){{GR|1}}. According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the city has a total area of {{convert|3.0|sqmi|km2}}, of which, {{convert|2.9|sqmi|km2}} of it is land and {{convert|0.1|sqmi|km2}} of it (3.32%) is water. ==Demographics== As of the [[census]]{{GR|2}} of 2000, there were 1,974 people, 768 households, and 489 families residing in the city. The [[population density]] was 679.0 people per square mile (261.9/km²). There were 929 housing units at an average density of 319.5 per square mile (123.3/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 87.49% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 7.19% [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], 0.76% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]], 0.15% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], 2.99% from [[Race (United States Census)|other races]], and 1.42% from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] of any race were 6.23% of the population. There were 768 households out of which 28.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 50.4% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 10.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 36.3% were non-families. 34.9% of all households were made up of individuals and 20.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.31 and the average family size was 2.97. In the city the population was spread out with 23.5% under the age of 18, 13.9% from 18 to 24, 21.7% from 25 to 44, 21.0% from 45 to 64, and 19.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females there were 89.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 87.3 males. The median income for a household in the city was $27,824, and the median income for a family was $37,083. Males had a median income of $25,486 versus $18,882 for females. The [[per capita income]] for the city was $15,436. About 11.2% of families and 15.4% of the population were below the [[poverty line]], including 19.0% of those under age 18 and 19.9% of those age 65 or over. ==Education== The City of Clarendon is served by the [[Clarendon Consolidated Independent School District]], with the [[bronco]]s mascot. The school colors are Maroon/White/Black.<ref>Website. www.clarendon.k12.tx.us</ref> Clarendon is home to [[Clarendon College Texas|Clarendon College]] (established 1898) the oldest center of higher education in the Texas Panhandle. It was originally affiliated with the Methodist Church. The college is located off Highway 287 in north Clarendon. The mascot is the [[bulldog]]. The colors are Green/White.<ref>www.clarendoncollege.edu</ref> The [[Saints' Roost Museum]] houses [[artifact (archaeology)|artifact]]s of the early years of Clarendon and features exhibits on Goodnight, Bugbee, the [[Red River War]], and the [[Fort Worth and Denver Railway]] [[train station|depot]]. The local [[newspaper]] is the ''Clarendon Enterprise''. ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== * [http://www.smalltownpapers.com/listCLR.htm The Clarendon Enterprise - Local newspaper] * [http://www.clarendoncollege.edu/ Clarendon Junior College] * [http://www.clarendonedc.org/ Clarendon Economic Development Corporation Website] {{Donley County, Texas}} {{Texas}} {{Texas county seats}} [[Category:Cities in Texas]] [[Category:Populated places in Donley County, Texas]] [[Category:County seats in Texas]] [[es:Clarendon (Texas)]] [[fa:کلارندون، تگزاس]] [[ht:Clarendon, Texas]] [[nl:Clarendon (Texas)]] [[pl:Clarendon (Teksas)]] [[pt:Clarendon (Texas)]]'