McAdoo is an unincorporated community

Unincorporated area

In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not a part of any municipality.To "incorporate" in this context means to form a municipal corporation, a city, town, or village with its own government. An unincorporated community is usually not subject to or taxed by a municipal government...

 in northwestern Dickens County, Texas

Texas

Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

, United States

United States

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McAdoo is named for the former United States Secretary of the Treasury

United States Secretary of the Treasury

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 William Gibbs McAdoo

William Gibbs McAdoo

William Gibbs McAdoo, Jr. was an American lawyer and political leader who served as a U.S. Senator, United States Secretary of the Treasury and director of the United States Railroad Administration...

, son-in-law of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson

Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921. A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913...

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Invenergy LLC is currently building a 150 MW wind power plant in this community. The project consists of 100 GE 1.5 MW wind turbine

GE 1.5 MW wind turbine

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s and will be online in late summer/early fall 2008. The project is providing a large economic boost for the area and most of the population.

The Spur Independent School District

Spur Independent School District

Spur Independent School District is a public school district based in Spur, Texas .In addition to Spur, the district also serves the community of McAdoo and a portion of Dickens, as well as rural areas in western and southern Dickens County...

 serves area students.

The McAdoo Eagles won 3 Class B state basketball championships in the early 1960s. They are the only school in Dickens County to have won any state championship, excluding track, in sports.

The Texas politician

Politician

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, journalist

Journalist

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, and attorney

Lawyer

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 Marshall Formby

Marshall Formby

Marshall Clinton Formby, Jr. , was a Texas attorney, newspaper publisher, radio executive, and a Democratic politician who served a term in the Texas State Senate from District 30 from 1941 to 1945. He was a defender of West Texas interests and entitled a 1962 book, These Are My People...

 was reared in McAdoo and is interred there at McAdoo Cemetery. Formby's nephew, Clint Formby

Clint Formby

John Clinton Formby, known as Clint Formby , was a veteran radio broadcaster called the "Old Philosopher" based in the small city of Hereford, Texas, the seat of Deaf Smith County in the Texas Panhandle. His daily broadcast ran continuously on his KPAN AM & FM country-music station since October...

, who was also reared in McAdoo, maintains the longest running radio

Radio

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broadcast by a single host in the United States.

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