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Bandera
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city in and county seat of Bandera County, Texas, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Texas
- County
- Bandera
- Mayor
- Denise Griffin
- Total
- 1.16 sq mi (3.00 km )
- Land
- 1.16 sq mi (3.00 km )
- Water
- 0.0039 sq mi (0.01 km )
- Elevation
- 1,247 ft (380 m)
- Density
- 778.3/sq mi (300.49/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 (CDT)
- Fips code
- 48-05528
- Website
- www .banderatx .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county seat
- Official name
- Bandera
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Bandera County
- Population
- 829
- Area
- 3.095202
- Elevation
- 379
- Time zone
- UTC−06:00
- Capital of
- Bandera County
- Official website
- www.banderatex.com
- Image
- Bandera county courthouse.jpg
- Households
- 240
- Dialing code
- 830
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- Commons category
- Bandera, Texas
- postal code
- 78003
- native label
- Bandera
- inception
- 1857-00-00
- water as percent of area
- 0.551
- per capita income
- 19818
Sources (8)
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Encyclopedic overview
Bandera (Spanish: "flag", /bænˈdɛrə/ ban-DERR-ə) is a city in Bandera County, Texas, United States. It was founded by Polish Catholic settlers from Silesia in the 1850s.The county seat, it lies in the Texas Hill Country, a part of the Edwards Plateau located at the crossroads of the central, southern, and western parts of the state, Its population was 829 at the 2020 census.
Bandera calls itself the "Cowboy Capital of the World", a legacy dating to its days as a staging area for what is today known as Great Western Cattle Trail for the last cattle drives of the 1800s.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bandera” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.