In that era, when diversified agriculture predominated in the county, wheat, grain sorghum, sheep, hogs, horses, and chickens were important. Nearly five million gallons of milk and almost , dozen eggs were produced each year, and several packing plants and creameries operated in Lubbock.
By the s cotton culture had begun its rise to become the dominant agricultural enterprise in Lubbock County, although other crops were still produced. By the county ranked third in the state, with , bales ginned by its thirty-three gins first in the state. Despite the dominance of cotton, other crops continued to be important to the agriculture of the county. Sorghum culture became increasingly important after World War II , as grain sorghum was used for cattle feed by the burgeoning feedlot industry.
By more than seven million bushels was grown yearly on , acres. By then soybeans had risen in importance as a crop on county farms, although the production of milk and eggs had declined and the creameries and packing houses were gone.
The Ogallala Aquifer was central to Lubbock County's growth; water from it was used for irrigation of cotton, sorghum, and other grain crops. By the s, after a decline because of high energy costs for pumping, the county still had some 8, wells irrigating more than , acres. After the cotton harvest the bracero program ended in the face of mechanization.
For more than twenty years the program had supplied labor by bringing in several thousand Mexican nationals each summer to pick cotton. Lubbock is the wholesale trade area for fifty-one counties in West Texas and eastern New Mexico and is also the retailing center for much of West Texas. The county constitutes one of the twenty-eight metropolitan statistical areas in the state. Lubbock was the state's leading agribusiness center and in had industrial establishments employing 11, persons.
For several decades after World War II, Lubbock County was one of the fastest growing counties in the state; its population increased from , in to , in , when it ranked eleventh in the state, with Throughout its early years the county voted solidly Democratic.
This began to change with the presidential election of , when county voters supported Dwight D. Eisenhower over Adlai Stevenson. Bush in and , and the Republican candidate for governor in and ; it divided its loyalty among Republican and Democratic candidates for state offices. By this time the city of Lubbock was unquestionably the dominant force in the county, with an estimated population of , in the mid-eighties, when it was the eighth-largest of Texas cities. As the only large city in the county, Lubbock dominates in many ways with its fourteen banks, fifty-one public schools, two universities Texas Tech and Lubbock Christian , Lubbock State School , seven hospitals with more than 2, beds, the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center , more than churches, more than sixty public parks including Mackenzie State Recreation Area , the Museum of Texas Tech , the Ranching Heritage Center , a large public library, and an extensive business establishment with several shopping malls.
Besides its two railroads the county is crossed by Interstate 27 to Amarillo, U. Highway 87 from the south, U. The city also supports a symphony orchestra, a ballet company, and a large civic center built after the destructive tornado of May 11, , which cost twenty-six lives and millions of dollars in damage.
In Lubbock County had a population of , Of those, Lubbock, with , residents, was the largest community. Lawrence L. Graves, ed. The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style , 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this entry. All copyrighted materials included within the Handbook of Texas Online are in accordance with Title 17 U.
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