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Housing Units (2000): 29
Land area (2000): 0.168593 sq. miles (0.436653 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.168593 sq. miles (0.436653 sq. km)
FIPS code: 79400
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 39.724165 N, 95.505479 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Housing Units (2000): 1374
Land area (2000): 3.290877 sq. miles (8.523333 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.290877 sq. miles (8.523333 sq. km)
FIPS code: 79408
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 30.422640 N, 95.478829 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 77378
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Willis may refer to:
Willis, a variant of the name William, is a surname, of Scottish and English origin meaning (Son of William). Notable persons with that surname include:
Willis is a masculine given name which may refer to:
People:
- Willis Bouchey (1907–1977), American actor
- Willis Carrier (1876–1950), American engineer and inventor, best known for inventing modern air conditioning
- Willis Carto (born 1926), American far right activist and Holocaust denier
- Willis Conover (1920–1996), jazz producer and longtime broadcaster on the Voice of America
- Willis Van Devanter (1859–1941), an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
- Willis Goldbeck (1898–1979), American screenwriter and film director
- Willis Hall (1929–2005), English playwright and radio and television writer
- Willis Harman (1918–1997), American engineer, social scientist, academic, futurist and writer
- Willis Hudlin (1906–2002), Major League Baseball pitcher
- Willis Jackson, Baron Jackson of Burnley (1904–1970), British technologist and electrical engineer
- Willis Jackson (saxophonist) (1932–1987), American jazz tenor saxophonist
- Willis Linn Jepson (1867–1946), American botanist
- Willis Lamb (1913–2008), American physicist and Nobel laureate
- Willis Augustus Lee (1888–1945), vice-admiral of the United States Navy and Olympic Games sport shooter
- Willis McGahee (born 1981), National Football League running back
- Willis O'Brien (1886–1962), Irish American pioneering motion picture special effects artist
- Willis Peguese (born 1966), American football player
- Willis Polk (1867–1924), American architect
- Willis Reed (born 1942), American retired basketball player, coach and general manager
- Willis H. Stephens, Sr. (born 1925), American politician
- Willis Stephens, Jr. (born 1955), American politician, son of the above
- Willis Ward (1912-1983?), African-American track and field athlete and football player, lawyer and judge
Fictional characters:
- Willis Jackson (character), in the 1970s-1980s U.S. TV sitcom Diff'rent Strokes
- Willis family, in the Australian soap opera Neighbours
- Willis (Digimon), in the anime series
- Willis the Bouncer, a Martian in the novel Red Planet by Robert A. Heinlein
Willis was a British automobile marque that began and ended in 1913. It was manufactured by Finchley Place Garage in London.
The only model was a cyclecar. The car had a V-twin engine from JA Prestwich Industries delivering 8 bhp (5.9 kW).
Usage examples of "willis".
Captain Waters, standing on shore watching his doomed vessel, asked one of his mates, a colourful Newfoundlander named Willis Warren, to go back aboard and rescue some warm clothes for his wife, who had been travelling with him.
With some hesitation, Willis accepted the Puelchean as being at feast Pliocene in age.
Murdicks were waiting at the departure checkpoint Holly in goggles and a semitransparent one-piece, Willis in a flying suit and helmet.
Willis wore an African mask he had bought at the shop in Earthworks Lodge.
There used to be in the gallery of the Luxembourg a picture of Hippolytus and Phxdra, in which the beautiful young man, who had kindled a passion in the heart of his wicked stepmother, always reminded me of Willis, in spite of the shortcomings of the living face as compared with the ideal.
I had never gone to Psynergy, Inc., to hire a full-spectrum prism, I would have met you eventually in the course of tracking down all of the people who had close ties to Theo Willis.
Eubank and Willis were whinnying inside their masks, as Hooper caught them with the flash of his faceplate.
Willis weaves into Bellwether a conceit with a bit more depth and even a non-trivial lesson or two hidden within.
Willis Comstock Krebbs, Caucasian male, age sixty-three, born in Tucson, Arizona.
I remember all too clearly the advice you gave me about Willis in Red Planet and how I should "consult a good Freudian" -- in consequence, I most carefully desexed the creatures completely.
Green's receding at a run off up the little streetlet into a glare of highbeams that diffracts in the clouds of Gately's breath, so even as Gately walks briskly254 in Green's leather-smelling backwash toward a rising hubbub of curses and Lenz's high-speed voice and Thrale's glass-shattering cries and Henderson and Willis talking shit angrily to somebody and the sound of Joelle v.
Willis & their families and to accept yourself assurances of the sincere regard with which I am Dr Sir your affectionate friend & servt.
First he saw the bank clerk, Victor Willis, who Miss Stanford had said loved Grace Field, and whom Hatch suspected Miss Stanford loved.
Willis once fired at some bighorn sheep, on a steep mountain-side.
They made their round together - the usual port diseases had made their appearance - and when they, for want of an intelligent reliable loblolly boy, had rolled their own pills, prepared their own draughts and triturated their own quicksilver in hog's lard for blue ointment, Stephen said to Macmillan, 'Among your books, do you have Willis on Mental Derangement or any of the other authorities?