Kilgore

Kilgore combines the pine-wooded calm of East Texas with the legacy of an oil boomtown in a way that reflects its position on the East Texas Oil Field. Oil discovered in the region in 1930 transformed the settlement at extraordinary speed, and downtown’s oil derricks still make that chapter part of the streetscape. The East Texas Oil Museum, on the Kilgore College campus, interprets the boom era, while the college’s Rangerettes drill team has been a local institution since 1940. Set in the Piney Woods, Kilgore feels distinct from Texas’s big metropolitan centres. Explore nearby webcam locations that provide complementary perspectives on Kilgore and East Texas.

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