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Karnes -- U.S. County in Texas
Population (2000): 15446
Housing Units (2000): 5479
Land area (2000): 750.317191 sq. miles (1943.312521 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 3.267227 sq. miles (8.462078 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 753.584418 sq. miles (1951.774599 sq. km)
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 28.881819 N, 97.866278 W
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Karnes, TX
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Karnes

Karnes is the name of several places:

In Norway:

  • Karnes, Norway, near Lyngseidet

In the United States:

  • Karnes City, Texas
  • Karnes County, Texas

Karnes is also the surname of several people:

  • Dave Karnes (born 1958), American Marine, rescuer of several survivors of the September 11, 2001 attacks
  • David Karnes (born 1948), American politician
  • Don Karnes, 1920s American football coach
  • Henry Karnes (1812–1840), American soldier and Texas Ranger
  • James Ernest Karnes (1889–1966), American World War I soldier
  • Jay Karnes (born 1963), American actor
  • Karen Karnes (born 1925), American potter

Karnes may also refer to:

  • USS Karnes, 1944 American warship

Usage examples of "karnes".

Chase was amazed that all these young lovers were returning unfazed to the scene of the murder, apparently unconcerned that the man who had knifed Michael Karnes was still on the loose.

First, he should speak with Louise Allenby, the girl who had been with Michael Karnes the night he was killed.

Michael Karnes had been a white-bread boy - not a natural target for something like the Aryan Alliance but a potential recruit.

There seemed to be a wealth of religious feeling in the Karnes house - but no clear-cut faith.

Harry Karnes was as drab as his wife and the room: short, only perhaps ten years older than Lora but so thin and prematurely aged as to be on the verge of frailty.

On the sofa beside Glenda, Ben figured that visitors to the Karnes house were rare indeed.

Seeing her husband's condition, Lora Karnes said, "Let's not blame the boy too much, Dad.

As if speaking to the muted evangelist on the television, Harry Karnes said, "You can't raise a godly child when you've done wicked things yourself.

The scorching, late-afternoon sun was oppressive, but Lora Karnes still chilled Ben.

Ben said, remembering Lora and Harry Karnes and the enigmatic needlepoint quotations on their living-room walls.

Michael Karnes had been a white-bread boy—not a natural target for something like the Aryan Alliance but a potential recruit.

There seemed to be a wealth of religious feeling in the Karnes house—but no clear-cut faith.

I didn't see how the Karnes outfit —Sylvie, Ralph, and Andrew — could make it faster than we had, but it never pays to weigh an opponent too light.

Sylvie Karnes and her brothers wanted that gold, and they would stop at nothing to get it.

That box canyon would not be easy to find, but should be simpler for me, who knew this land of country, than for either Loomis or the Karnes outfit.