The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lipans \Li*pans"\ (l[-e]*p[aum]nz"), n. pl.; sing. Lipan (l[-e]*p[aum]n"). (Ethnol.) A tribe of North American Indians, inhabiting the northern part of Mexico. They belong to the Tinneh stock, and are closely related to the Apaches.
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 204
Land area (2000): 1.060090 sq. miles (2.745620 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.060090 sq. miles (2.745620 sq. km)
FIPS code: 42940
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 32.518623 N, 98.045294 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 76462
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Lipan
Wikipedia
Lipan may refer to:
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Lipan Apache people, an indigenous people of Texas and northern Mexico
- Lipan language
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Lipan, Texas, a city
- Lipan Independent School District
- Mereta, Texas or Lipan, an unincorporated community
- Lipan Point, a promontory of the Grand Canyon
- Lipán M3, an Argentine Army unmanned aerial vehicle
- USS Lipan (AT-85), a US Navy tug
- Battle of Lipany or Lipan, a 1434 battle of the Hussite Wars, fought near Prague
Usage examples of "lipan".
Its affiliated tribes rove far north to the mouth of the Mackenzie River, and wandering still more widely in an opposite direction along both declivities of the Rocky Mountains, people portions of the coast of Oregon south of the mouth of the Columbia, and spreading over the plains of New Mexico under the names of Apaches, Navajos, and Lipans, almost reach the tropics at the delta of the Rio Grande del Norte, and on the shores of the Gulf of California.
If it was Kiowas, it was a good chance to lose hair, and the same for Lipans or Comanches.
It was Apache country, too, mostly Lipans, I believed, but I was no expert on this area of Texas.
South and east was Kiowa country, Comanche country, and the land where the Lipans rode.