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Knox City-O'Brien Consolidated Independent School District

school district in Texas

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 14, 2025
Entity authorityQ6423528 ↗
Source-derived summary

Knox City-O'Brien Consolidated Independent School District is a public school district based in Knox City, Texas, United States. In addition to Knox City, the district also serves the city of O'Brien. Located in southwestern Knox County, a portion of the district lies in northwestern Haskell County.

In 2009, the school district was rated "academically acceptable" by the Texas Education Agency.

Schools

Knox City High School (grades 9–12)

1983 Class A state football champions

O'Brien Middle (grades 5–8)

previously O'Brien High School, which was the 1972 Texas state champion in six-man football, the first title ever awarded in this classification

Knox City Elementary (prekindergarten-grade 4)

Special programs

Athletics

Knox City High School plays six-man football.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Knox City-O'Brien Consolidated Independent School District” as school district in Texas. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009, 1983, 1972—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Knox, City-O'Brien and Consolidated can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as school district in Texas. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 14, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6423528. Authority coordinates are 33.418, -99.813. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2009, 1983 and 1972.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Knox City-O'Brien Consolidated Independent School District”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Knox City-O'Brien Consolidated Independent School District primary sources, Knox City-O'Brien Consolidated Independent School District archive and Knox research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Knox City-O'Brien Consolidated Independent School District”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Knox City-O'Brien Consolidated Independent School District” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.