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Pampa is a city in Gray County, Texas. The population was 17,887 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Gray County. In 1888 the Santa Fe Railroad was constructed through the area were Pampa would be established. A rail station and telegraph office was built, and the townsite was laid out by George Tyng, manager of the White Deer Lands ranch. The town was first called Glascow, then Sutton, and then the name was changed to Pampa after the grasslands of South America at Mr. Tyng's suggestion. T.D. Hobart sold plots of land for the town only to people who agreed to settle there and develop the land, and Pampa soon became a center for agriculture. Gas and oil were discovered in the Texas Panhandle in 1916. Pampa prospered greatly in the resulting oil boom, and the Gray County seat was moved there from Lefors in 1928. www.cityofpampa.org