CHILDRESS, a city in the "panhandle" of Texas, U.S.A., near the Red river and the Oklahoma border ; the county seat of Childress county. It is on Federal highway 370, is served by the Colorado and Southern railway, and has an airport. In 1900 the population was 692 ; in 1920, 5,003 (98% native white) ; and in 1930 was 7,163 by the Federal census. Cattle, hogs, and cotton are raised in the vicinity, and petroleum, natural gas, gypsum, and gypsites are found. The city has cotton compresses and gins and a cottonseed-oil mill, railroad repair shops and an icing station for fruit cars. It was settled about 1888, and incorporated in 1892.