Tag: Harker Heights
Harker Heights is a city in Bell County, Texas, United States. As of the census[1] of 2010, there were 26,700 people, 9,488 households, and 7,139 families residing in the city, up from a population of 17,308 at the 2000 census. This makes Harker Heights the 3rd largest city in Bell County, after Killeen and Temple. Incorporated in 1960, the city name is derived from the name of one of the two original landowners and founder, Harley Kern.
Harker Heights is part of the Killeen–Temple–Fort Hood Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Harker Heights is located near Fort Hood, a major United States Army Post that was designated a permanent military facility in 1950. As the Post grew in military population, the surrounding civilian population increased. Water Control and Improvement District No. 4 was established on land near the Killeen city limits and the military Post in 1955, and included the land owned by Pinckney R. Cox and Harley Kern, two hog farmers. These two men subdivided their land in…
