Burkburnett, TX
N 34° 04.579 W 098° 33.206
14S E 541202 N 3770707
The flag of the City of Burkburnett, TX waves proudly below the flag of Texas at the entry to Burkburnett Memorial Cemetery, 920 Bishop Road, Burkburnett, TX.
Waymark Code: WMTYEN
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 01/23/2017
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The flagpole with the flag of Texas and the Burkburnett flag stands on the south side of the driveway into the cemetery, while the American flag flies on the flagpole on the north side.
The flag has a black background, with "1907" in large white letters, with "City of" in gold. A gold banner crosses the center of "1907", with an oil rig and a stalk of wheat and a cotton boll flanking "Burkburnett", in black. While there was settlement in the area much earlier than 1907, the post office wasn't established here until that year, and much of the town's platting happened at that time. While cotton and wheat have always been important to the local economy -- they have contributed to flour production in Wichita Falls, just south of here -- "Boomtown" Burkburnett is mostly an oil town, as a 1966 Texas Historical Marker along TX 240 elaborates:
One of the most famous Texas boom towns. Name was given to post office at request of President T.R. Roosevelt after his 1905 wolf hunt with rancher Burk Burnett in this area. Townsite was laid out in 1907 by Joseph A. Kemp and Frank Kell, surveyors and promoters of Wichita Falls and Northwestern Railroad. First oil discovery was Chris Schmoker No. 1, in 1912.
A 2200-barrel gusher was brought in on S.L. Fowler farm about a mile from this site, July 29, 1918, by a company formed by Fowler, his brother, W.D. Cline and J.I. Staley. In 3 months 200 wells had been completed in Burkburnett townsite - a forest of derricks. Money and oil flowed freely. A bank capitalized at $25,000, got monthly revenue of $10,000 from a well drilled at its back door. The town's population jumped from 1500 to 15,000 in a year. Boom area was extended by finds on properties of Burk-Waggoner Company and by Kemp-Munger-Allen operations to the southwest.
Town was made world famous in 1941 by the movie "Boomtown", filmed from a popular story entitled "Lady Comes to Burkburnett".
Economy is dependent on agriculture and oil. An important neighbor is Sheppard Air Force Base.
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