It shows evidence of almost 12,000 years of human occupation in the region. The landmark is an archaeological and natural history preserve at the northern edge of the city. The city is home to the Lubbock Lake Landmark, part of the Museum of Texas Tech University. South Plains College and Wayland Baptist University operate branch campuses in Lubbock. Lubbock Christian University, founded in 1957, and Sunset International Bible Institute, both affiliated with the Churches of Christ, have their main campuses in the city. Both universities are now overseen by the Texas Tech University System, after it was established in 1996 and based in Lubbock. A separate university, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, opened as Texas Tech University School of Medicine in 1969. Texas Technological College (now Texas Tech University) was founded in Lubbock in 1923. In 1891, Lubbock became the county seat and on March 16, 1909, Lubbock was incorporated. The terms of the compromise included keeping the Lubbock name, but the Monterey townsite, so the previous Old Lubbock residents relocated south to the Monterey location, including putting Old Lubbock's Nicolette Hotel on rollers and pulling it across a canyon to its new home. However, the town of Lubbock was not founded until 1890, when it was formed from a unique merger arrangement between two smaller towns, "Old Lubbock" and Monterey. As early as 1884, a federal post office named Lubbock existed in Yellow House Canyon. Lubbock, governor of Texas during the Civil War. The county of Lubbock was founded in 1876, named after Thomas Saltus Lubbock, former Texas Ranger and brother of Francis R. 7.4 National Register of Historic Places.The IB program is one of the criteria examined by Newsweek in formulating their list of top high schools. Lubbock High School is home to the only international baccalaureate (IB) program in the region. Lubbock High School has been recognized for three consecutive years by Newsweek as one of the top high schools in the United States. They mentioned the community's traditional business atmosphere, less expensive rent for commercial space, and its central location and cooperative form of city government. Lubbock was selected as the 12th best place to start a small business by. The area is the largest contiguous cotton-growing region in the world and is heavily dependent on irrigation water drawn from the Ogallala Aquifer. Lubbock's nickname is the "Hub City", which derives from it being the economic, education, and health care hub of a multicounty region commonly called the South Plains. The city is the economic center of the Lubbock metropolitan area, which had an estimated 2012 population of 297,669. According to a 2012 Census estimate, Lubbock had a population of 236,065, making it the 84th most populous city in the United States of America and the 11th most populous city in the state of Texas. The city is home to three universities: Lubbock Christian University, Texas Tech University, and Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. The city is located in the northwestern part of the state, a region known historically and geographically as the Llano Estacado and ecologically is part of the southern end of the Western High Plains. Is a city in and the county seat of Lubbock County, Texas, United States.
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