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Cleburne

Texas, United States
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Cleburne, city, seat (1867) of Johnson county, north-central Texas, U.S. Lying about 25 miles (40 km) south of Fort Worth, it is situated between the Grand Prairie and Blackland Prairie regions. Named for General Patrick Ronayne Cleburne of the Confederate army, it developed as a processing-shipping point for mixed farming (peanuts [groundnuts], sweet potatoes, livestock, dairy products, and poultry). Part of the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area, the city experienced rapid growth in the 1980s, when...

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