Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 5941
Land area (2000): 14.945058 sq. miles (38.707521 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.052600 sq. miles (0.136233 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 14.997658 sq. miles (38.843754 sq. km)
FIPS code: 26736
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 31.130072 N, 97.780260 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 76544
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Fort Hood
Wikipedia
Fort Hood is a U.S. military post located in Killeen, Texas. The post is named after Confederate General John Bell Hood. It is located halfway between Austin and Waco, about from each, within the U.S. state of Texas.
Its origin was the need for wide-open space to test and train with World War II tank destroyers. The War Department announced the location in January 1942, and the initial completion was set for that August. As originally constructed, Fort Hood had an area of , with billeting for 6,007 officers and 82,610 enlisted personnel. The main cantonment of Fort Hood had a total population of 53,416 as of the 2010 U.S. Census. Fort Hood is the most populous U.S. military installation in the world. The main business area is in Bell County, with the training countryside area of the post in Coryell County. In April 2014, the Fort Hood website lists 45,414 assigned soldiers and 8,900 civilian employees with Fort Hood covering .
Usage examples of "fort hood".
The same was true of the two armored divisions at Fort Hood, Texas, and the 1st Infantry Division (Mechanized) at Fort Riley, Kansas.
Stankowski's next job, Mitchell had recently learned, was in the 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Hood, where he'd lead his squad from inside an M-2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle.
He's at Fort Hood with the helicopter, and a couple of mechanics and an Ordnance Corps warrant officer I borrowed from Ted Davis.
She had seen that quality herself in Fort Hood, Texas, when her husband, Scott, was Big Al's operations officer.
His job reminded him of the KPs he had pulled during basic training at Fort Hood, back in the Vietnam War, except that he was the only kitchen policeman here and soon found out that he was the dining room orderly as well.
The majority of military bases in the continental United States are named after Confederate officers - Fort Bragg, Fort Benning, Fort Hood, Fort Polk, Fort Rucker.
But both-on loan from the Army's Fort Hood in Texas-might actually end up being useless to him.
The guy in the bunk beside his at Fort Hood used to read those all the time.