Guthrie, TX

Guthrie is an unincorporated town and census-designated place in and the county seat of King County in the U.S. state of Texas. The 2020 census counted 151, residents. Guthrie is in the northern part of the state, 93 miles east of Lubbock and 117 miles west of Wichita Falls. Guthrie serves as the principal headquarters of the Four Sixes Ranch. Guthrie's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Texas setting.

The local scoop is how Guthrie's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. Guthrie's recorded history begins in 1883, when the Louisville Land and Cattle Company in Louisville, Kentucky, purchased several hundred acres in what later became King County. Guthrie, the community's townsite was platted in 1891 by Andrew Chester Tackitt (son of Rev. Guthrie is located in west-central King County, on the north side of the South Wichita River.