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Floydada, pronounced floy-DAY-da, is the county seat of Floyd County on the Llano Estacado High Plains of West Texas.

The town was founded in 1890 as Floyd City on 640 acres donated by James B. and Caroline Price of Jefferson City, Missouri, and it won the county-seat election of May 28, 1890 over rival Della Plain by a vote of 55 to 33.

Floyd City was renamed Floydada in 1892, the name it still carries today.

Floydada is sometimes called the Pumpkin Capital of Texas, and its surrounding High Plains cropland grows cotton, grain sorghum, wheat, and pumpkins.

The 2020 Census counted 2,675 people in Floydada, living in 1,104 households, down from 3,038 residents in 2010.

Blanco Canyon, carved by the White River about six miles south of Floydada, holds archaeological evidence of a major camp of Coronado's expedition, and artifacts from the site are displayed at the Floyd County Historical Museum in downtown Floydada.

Floydada became an important railroad junction in 1928, when the Quanah, Acme and Pacific Railway reached the town.

Floyd County, created on August 21, 1876, was named for Dolphin Ward Floyd, a Texan who died at the Alamo.

Floydada lies about 18 miles west of the Caprock Escarpment, the dramatic break between the High Plains and the rolling country to the east.

Students in Floydada attend the Floydada Collegiate Independent School District, and Floydada High School's teams are the Whirlwinds.