- Beth Williams wrote a song entitled “Quitaque.” Purchase the CD or download of song here. For more information and song lyrics see Beth Williams’ web site. Click the play button below to hear the song. (Used here with permission).
1. Quitaque.mp3
- 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.
- Home town of Jimmy Ross – President Lions Club International 2006 – 2007. (For the official Jimmy Ross page visit Quitaque Lions Club’s Jimmy Ross.)
- Voted “One of the Ten Hardest Working Communities in Texas” in 2005 and again in 2006 by Texas Department of Agriculture.
- Our dark starry nights make Quitaque a favorite place for astronomers with their telescopes.
- Do we have more nicknames per capita than any other city in Texas? (Check out the list at the Valley Farm Store.)
- Quitaque (kit-ta-kway) is one of the most mispronounced city names in the USA.
- The walls of our city park and cemetery were built by the WPA (Work Projects Administration) 1938 – 1940.
- Home of not one, but two Texas state parks. Can you name them?
- Part of the old Ozark Trail (Our monument, buried in the street in the Thirties, will soon be excavated.)
- Home of the official Texas state bison herd. Ted Turner recently donated 3 bison bulls to the herd.
- The area was Indian country to the Comanche, Plains Apache, Cheyenne and Kwahadi tribes.
- One of the many hunting areas of Quanah Parker, the last major chief of the Comanche Indians.
- The area of Camp Resolution and “The Valley of Tears.”
- Just ten miles west of Turkey, Texas, home of Bob Wills “The King of Country Western Swing.”
- Caprock Canyons State Park was voted BEST STATE PARK in 2004 by readers of Texas Co-op Power Magazine.
- “Walking for the Cure” (for 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. In 2008 we raised over $16,000 with “Cooking for the Cure” (this is our new program where we get together for a meal, silent auction and games).
