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As the seat of Potter County, the city is the location of the county's trial, civil, and criminal courts. The Randall County Amarillo Annex building is located within the city limits and houses its Sheriff's Office and Justice of the Peace Court, Precinct 4. [97] [98] The Texas Seventh Court of Appeals is located in Amarillo. [99]
Jul 20, 1998 · Amarillo, city, seat (1887) of Potter county (and partly in Randall county), on the high plains of northern Texas, U.S. The chief city of the Texas Panhandle, Amarillo is located on a sandy playa, or dry lake bed, and the tawny colour of its soil lends the city its name (Spanish: Yellow).
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Aug 2, 2022 · Amarillo, Texas. Amarillo is a large city situated in the Potter and Randall Counties in the US State of Texas.Initially known as Oneida, the city of Amarillo is located in the Llano Estacado area and is the Texas Panhandle's largest city and the state's 14th most populous city.
Jul 27, 2023 · Located in the heart of the Texas Panhandle, Amarillo is the largest city in this region, making it an important economic and cultural hub. The name “Amarillo” means “yellow” in Spanish. The city of Amarillo gets its name from the yellow wildflowers that bloom in the area during the spring, creating a picturesque landscape.
Hours. Amarillo is the 14th-largest city, by population, in the state of Texas, the largest in the Texas Panhandle, and the seat of Potter County. A portion of the city extends into Randall County. The population was 173,627 at the 2000 census. The Amarillo metropolitan area has an estimated population of 236,113 in four counties.
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Amarillo. Categories: city in the United States, big city, county seat and locality. Location: Potter, Texas, United States, North America. View on OpenStreetMap. Latitude. 35.2073° or 35° 12' 26" north. Longitude. -101.8371° or 101° 50' 14" west.
Amarillo metropolitan area 268,691 (Census 2020); in 1890 population was 482. The city encompasses 99.48 sqm in both, Potter and Randall Counties. There are app. 908 streets in Amarillo, as well as 58 parks and playgrounds, 4 city swimming pools, two world-class skating parks, and 32 miles of jogging trails.
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