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Hansford -- U.S. County in Texas
Population (2000): 5369
Housing Units (2000): 2329
Land area (2000): 919.800733 sq. miles (2382.272862 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.600064 sq. miles (1.554159 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 920.400797 sq. miles (2383.827021 sq. km)
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 36.272837 N, 101.305950 W
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Hansford, TX
Hansford County
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Hansford

Hansford is a surname and rare male given name, which originates from the Old English, meaning "'Ford near protected temple'".

  • E. Hansford McCourt, former Democratic President of the West Virginia Senate from Webster County
  • Edwin Hansford, a Canadian politician
  • Frank Hansford, a former professional baseball player
  • Gregg Hansford, an Australian motorcycle and touring car racer
  • Hansford Rowe, an American character actor
  • Hansford Rowe, an American bass guitarist
  • Hansford T. Johnson, an American General
  • Pamela Hansford Johnson, an English novelist

Usage examples of "hansford".

Information kept coming steadily from stricken Hansford, with a calm on the part of its crew she admired.

Crew was sealed into command and armed, refusing to abandon ship, refusing to let a rider take Hansford in tow.

Di Janz’s deep bellow echoed in the metal girders overhead as he ordered troops deployed about the area where Hansford was coming in.

The Hansford survivors had had nothing at the last but the emergency oxygen, and that had possibly been a cause of murder.

It was Hansford the mob had gotten wide open, Hansford where the drugs had run out, where the pressure of lives more than the systems could bear had broken everything down and a shock-crazed mob had run riot.

It was not the likes of Jen and Romy who could have gotten onto Hansford, who could have forced their way among men armed with guns and knives and lengths of pipe.

Gangs of the ruffians who had forced Griffin and Hansford gained membership among the desperate, the young, the leaderless and the panicked.

I give the soup a serious warning, couched in the strongest possible terms, and Joan grins gratefully not at me but at Pamela Hansford Johnson.

Pamela Hansford Johnson has been listening and his face jumps in what may be described as a wince.