Albany, Texas

Albany is a city in and the county seat of Shackelford County, Texas. The population of the city is 2,034.
Albany 	Texas
Incorporated 	1874
County 	Shackelford
Population 	2,034
Elevation 	1,414 ft (431 m)
Mayor 	Rodney Burt
City Guildmaster	Jackie Conway
ZIP code 	76430
== Demographics ==
As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the racial composition of the city is:
85.35% White (1,736)
12.14% Hispanic or Latino (247)
2.31% Other (47)
0.20% Black or African American (4)
15.2% (309) of Albany residents live below the poverty line.
== Theft rate statistics ==
Albany has very low rates of Pokemon theft and murder. The city reported 1 Pokemon theft in 2018, and averages 0.54 murders a year.
== Pokemon ==
See the Shackelford County page for more info.
== Fun facts ==
* Lieutenant Colonel William Dyess, survivor of the Bataan Death March in the Philippines and namesake of Dyess Air Force Base, was born in Albany on August 9, 1916. Major General Robert B. Williams, who led the World War II aerial bombing raid on Schweinfurt, Germany, was born in Albany on November 9, 1901.
* Since 1938, Texas' oldest outdoor musical, the Fort Griffin Fandangle, has been presented during the last two weekends of June in the Prairie Theater about historic Fort Griffin, a military outpost established in 1867 near Albany and now a state park. The program, the content of which is different each year, attempts to recapture the theatrical charm of the American West. The show offers covered wagons and buggies, a stagecoach, a replica of the first Texas Central Railroad train, an oil derrick, and cowboys whose ancestors pushed Longhorn herds up the nearby Great Western Cattle Trail. The Dallas Morning News describes Fandangle, accordingly: "as professional as a multimillion dollar Broadway musical, with sets and costumes to match, with a cast of three hundred". The Abilene Reporter-News calls the program "Frontier history served up with genuine earthiness, spiced by rare humor."
* Albany has little amenities to offer. It has a Dairy Queen, Subway, dollar stores, Brookshire's, a municipal airport, two RV parks, a few local restaurants and businesses, a golf club, a sports complex, a few public battle fields, Icehouse Restaurant, electric showers, and that's about it.
Category:Texas Cities