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BRECKENRIDGE, a city of north-eastern Texas, U.S.A., r W. of Fort Worth; the county seat of Stephens county. It is served by the Cisco and Northeastern, the Wichita Falls arid Southern, and the Wichita Falls, Ranger and Fort Worth railways. The population in 1920 was 1,846; in 193o by the Fed eral census it was 7,569. It is in the midst of an oil-field which was discovered in 1918. The city was settled in 1876 and incorporated in 1919.