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First city in the United States to have a
totally wireless telephone system. It was installed by GTE in 1991, but two years later
we reverted back to wire.
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Home town of Jimmy Ross - President Lions Club International 2006 - 2007.
(For the official Jimmy Ross/Quitaque Pin visit The Quitaque Lions Club)
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Voted "One of the Ten Hardest
Working Communities in Texas " in 2005 and again in 2006 by
Texas Department of Agriculture.
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Our dark starry nights make Quitaque a favorite place for astronomers
with their telescopes
(visit
dark starry nights)
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Do we have more nicknames per
capita than any other city in Texas?
(Check
out the list at the Valley Farm Store.)
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Quitaque (kit-ta-kway) is one of
the most mispronounced city names in the USA.
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The walls of our city park and
cemetery were built by the WPA (Work Projects Administration) 1938 - 1940.
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Home of not one but two Texas state
parks
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Part of the old Ozark Trail
(Our monument, buried in the street in the Thirties, will soon be excavated.)
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Home of the official Texas state
bison herd. Ted Turner recently donated 3 bison bulls to the herd.
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The area was Indian country to the
Comanches, Plains Apaches, Cheyenne and Kwahadi
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One of the many hunting areas of
Quanah Parker, the last major chief of the Comanche Indians
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The area of Camp Resolution and
"The Valley of Tears"
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Just ten miles west of Turkey, Texas,
home of Bob Wills "The King of Country Western Swing"
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Caprock Canyons State Park was
voted BEST STATE PARK in 2004 by readers of Texas Co-op Power magazine
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"Walking for the Cure" (of cancer)
is a big deal for Briscoe County and the surrounding towns of Silverton, Turkey,
Flomot and Quitaque. Since 1999 we have been in the top 5 counties in
Texas in donations per capitia and once we were 3rd in the nation at $10.88 per
person in the county. This year (2008) we have raised over $16,000 with
our new program of "Cooking for the Cure" where we get together for a meal,
silent auction and games.
