Wheeler County News

Coralyn Daniel Reese passed away on May 18, 2009, bringing much sorrow to his family and friends.

Someone looking to loot some brass apparently thought they could take it from the dead.

Investigators say a downed power line is what sparked the fifteen thousand acre grass fire in Wheeler County.

The entire town of Wheeler, in the Texas Panhandle, was ordered evacuated ahead of a fast moving brush fire which has already destroyed more than 2,000 acres, but residents were allowed to return after the winds died down, 1200 WOAI news reports.

The Texas Forest Services said 24 firefighters were treated for smoke inhalation from fighting Texas wildfires.

WHEELER COUNTY a 'A wind-whipped wildfire that has spread over 2,000 acres forced the evacuation Saturday of the Texas Panhandle community of Wheeler, a town of about 1,300 residents just 12 miles from the Oklahoma border.

Wheeler County officials in the Texas Panhandle have ordered the evacuation of the county seat, Wheeler, as a wildfire threatens the town.

Elizabeth Ann Baxter, 77, died Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009, in Wellington. Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. today in Edith Ford Memorial Cemetery with Rick Timmons officiating.

Fire protection in the city of Shamrock will be provided by neighboring cities as the volunteer fire department is restructured.

Back in the not-so-long-ago nineteen-sixties, the Standard Oil Company unearthed a long-hidden mess when it undertook to lease a great deal of property around the townsite of Old Mobeetie, in the Texas ...

Gerald Wright, businessman and and county commissioner, but most of all an historian, particularly of Gray and Wheeler Counties where his roots are, holds a homemade hatchet that his archeological group found ...

The Texas Panhandle, according to maps dating from the late eighteen-seventies, was blessed with a number of flourishing cities.