McAdoo, Texas

McAdoo is an unincorporated community in northwestern Dickens County, Texas, United States.

McAdoo is named for the former United States Secretary of the Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo, son-in-law of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson.

Invenergy LLC is currently building a 150 MW wind power plant in this community. The project consists of 100 GE 1.5 MW wind turbines and will be online in late summer/early fall 2008. The project is providing a large economic boost for the area and most of the population.^[1]

The Spur Independent School District serves area students.

The McAdoo Eagles won 3 Class B state basketball championships in the early 1960s. They are the only school in Dickens County to have won any state championship, excluding track, in sports.

The Texas politician, journalist, and attorney Marshall Formby was reared in McAdoo and is interred there at McAdoo Cemetery. Formby's nephew, Clint Formby, who was also reared in McAdoo, maintains the longest running radio broadcast by a single host in the United States.^[2]

References

1. ^ Wind farm whips up activity around McAdoo | AVALANCHE-JOURNAL
2. ^ "Henri Brickey, Hereford radioman still going after decades". Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, March 6, 2008. http://www.lubbockonline.com/stories/030608/loc_254328517.shtml. Retrieved December 21, 2009. 

External links

• U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: McAdoo, Texas

Coordinates: 33°44′02″N 101°00′23″W / 33.73389°N 101.00639°W / 33.73389; -101.00639