Wolfforth, Lubbock County, Texas, USA

Wolfforth is a city in southwestern Lubbock County, Texas, adjoining Lubbock. It developed along the Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway after its establishment in 1916. U.S. 62 and U.S. 82, now carried by the Marsha Sharp Freeway, connect it with the wider South Plains. Its name honors the Wolffarth family, early ranchers and civic figures in the area. The city has grown from a railroad settlement into a residential and commercial community within the Lubbock metropolitan area.