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Hemphill, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000): 1106
Housing Units (2000): 574
Land area (2000): 2.377117 sq. miles (6.156704 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.037872 sq. miles (0.098087 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.414989 sq. miles (6.254791 sq. km)
FIPS code: 33188
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 31.342612 N, 93.854909 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 75948
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Hemphill -- U.S. County in Texas
Population (2000): 3351
Housing Units (2000): 1548
Land area (2000): 909.676459 sq. miles (2356.051113 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 2.380311 sq. miles (6.164977 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 912.056770 sq. miles (2362.216090 sq. km)
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 35.815645 N, 100.271629 W
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Hemphill

Hemphill may refer to:

  • Hemphill (surname)
Hemphill (surname)

Hemphill is a surname originating from Scotland and is synonymous with similar names such as Hempel and Hemmel. As a Scottish clan, the Hemphills were considered a border clan, those clans geographically situated closest to Scotland's border with England. The Hemphill clan identifies itself with the Cunningham tartan. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Arlo Hemphill (b. 1971), American explorer, ocean conservationist and film actor
  • George Hemphill (b. 1951), American art dealer and photography specialist
  • Greg Hemphill (b. 1970), Scottish comedian
  • Henry Hemphill (1830–1914), American malacologist
  • Jacob Hemphill American musician, Lead vocalist/guitarist of SOJA
  • Jessie Mae Hemphill (1923–2006), pioneering electric guitarist
  • John Hemphill, American politician
  • John Hemphill, American comedian
  • Julius Hemphill (1938–1995), jazz saxophonist, founder of the World Saxophone Quartet
  • Mark W. Hemphill, railroader
  • Maureen Hemphill (b. 1937), Canadian politician
  • Ryan Hemphill (b. 1981), NASCAR driver
  • Shirley Hemphill (1947–1999), American comedic actress
  • Stephanie Hemphill, American writer
  • William Hemphill (1842–1902), American businessman and politician
  • Robert W. Hemphill (1915–1983), American lawyer, politician and Federal Judge from South Carolina

Usage examples of "hemphill".

Hemphill could see, at a considerable angular distance from Timber, faintly radiant clouds, encompassing a sizable volume of space, that impressed him as looking the way the residue of some serious battle ought to look.

Hemphill wanted to sweep every cubic foot of the miles of mechanism with his hatred.

Whereupon Wally Hemphill, marathoner turned martial artist, leapt from the sofa, whirled like a dervish, and delivered a spinning back kick that knocked the gun from his hand, following it with a move I couldn't follow that sent Mapes reeling across the room, right into the arms of a cop and two thugs.

The other surviving man, a ship's officer, dying slowly, bleeding through his uniform tatters, saw what Hemphill was doing in the wreckage, and drifted in front of him interferingly.

Building one with the new launchers pushed its price tag up to about a quarter of a destroyer's, especially with the fire control upgrades to take full advantage of the launchers' capabilities, yet Hemphill had lobbied hard for the resumption of LAC construction, and she'd succeeded.

Building one with the new launchers pushed its price tag up to about a quarter of a destroyer's, especially with the fire control upgrade needed to take full advantage of the launchers' capabilities, yet Hemphill had lobbied hard for the resumption of LAC construction, and she'd succeeded.