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Archer City
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city in and county seat of Archer County, Texas< United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Texas
- County
- Archer
- Total
- 2.22 sq mi (5.76 km )
- Land
- 2.19 sq mi (5.68 km )
- Water
- 0.031 sq mi (0.08 km )
- Elevation
- 1,070 ft (330 m)
- Density
- 730/sq mi (282/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( Central (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 (CDT)
- Fips code
- 48-03696
- Website
- www .archercity .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county seat
- Official name
- Archer City
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Archer County
- Population
- 1601
- Area
- 5.757499
- Elevation
- 324
- Time zone
- UTC−06:00
- Capital of
- Archer County
- Official website
- www.archercity.org
- Image
- Archer courthouse.jpg
- Households
- 717
- Dialing code
- 940
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- postal code
- 76351
- Commons category
- Archer City, Texas
- native label
- Archer City
- P8168
- Wol
- water as percent of area
- 1.3893
- per capita income
- 28785
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Encyclopedic overview
Archer City is a city in and the county seat of Archer County, Texas, United States. The city lies at the junction of State Highway 79 and State Highway 25. It is located 25 miles (40 km) south of Wichita Falls, and is part of the Wichita Falls metropolitan statistical area. Its population was 1,601 at the 2020 census. Archer City is notable as a filming location for the motion picture The Last Picture Show (1971) and its sequel Texasville (1990), both based upon novels written by Archer City native Larry McMurtry.
The city is named for Branch Tanner Archer, a commissioner for the Republic of Texas.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Archer City” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.