Borger, Texas from the Texas Almanac, 1956 - 1957
A.H. Belo Company, Dallas, Texas.

On high Panhandle plains prairies cut across the south central part by the Canadian River Gorge. The economy is oil, gas, cattle, and wheat. The county was created in 1876 and organized in 1901 from Bexar Territory. It was named for Judge Anderson Hutchinson, a district judge in the Republic of Texas in 1841. The altitude in the county, ranges from a low point of 2,750 to a high point of 3,400. The county is divided naturally into three parts: High level plains in the northern 2/3; Canadian Breaks in southeast central part; and rolling plains in the southeast.

Year	Population	School
1940	19, 069	4,132
1950	31, 580	6, 920
1955	35, 685	7, 844

70% urban 28% rural 2% farm
98.2% Anglo-American 1.6% Black 0.2% Latin American

The Panhandle oil and gas field underlies part of the county. Oil (1954) 12,206,359 barrels; origin point for interstate gas pipelines. Big Carbon Black production from plans, whose towers of black smoke, seen many miles across the level plains amaze many tourists.

Wheat and grain sorghum are grown on the soils of the northern part. Wheat (470,867 bushels), grain sorghums, barley, oats. Grain sorghum is the chief crop on the rolling uplands south of the Canadian River Breaks. Growing season 182 days. Big-scale beef cattle ranching along the Canadian. Some dairy and poultry production for Borger and Amarillo markets. Farming and ranching on a large scale. Stinnett is the commercial center for wheat and ranching for the northern part of the county. Borger is the center of great oil and gas production with large carbon black, synthetic rubber, and oil field supply industries. Phillips Texas, a suburb of Borger has a large refinery while Bunavista, another suburb is the center for Butadiene and rubber plants. There are many carbon black plants in this area which is the point of origin for some of the nation’s longest oil and gas pipelines.