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Mount Pleasant was founded May 11, 1848, to serve as county seat for Titus County, which was created by a legislative act on May 11, 1846. Until after the Civil War, Titus County also included the territory of present-day Franklin and Morris Counties. High waters along the creeks and the Sulphur River often halted travel in the early years.
UTC−5 (CDT) Congressional district. 1st. Website. www.co.titus.tx.us. Titus County is a county located in the northeastern region of the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 31,247. [1] Its county seat is Mount Pleasant. [2] The county is named for Andrew Jackson Titus, an early settler.
Established. 1987. Visitors. 79,274 (in 2022) [1] Governing body. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. Lake Bob Sandlin State Park is a state park in Titus County, Texas managed by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. The park covers 639.8 acres of land on the northern shore Lake Bob Sandlin about 10 miles southwest of Mount Pleasant. [2]
Steam turbine. Cooling source. artificial Lake Monticello on Big Cypress Bayou. Power generation. Nameplate capacity. 1,880 MW. [ edit on Wikidata] The Monticello Steam Electric Station was a 1.8-gigawatt (1,880 MW) coal-fired power plant located southwest of Mount Pleasant, Texas, in Titus County, Texas. It operated from 1974 to 2018.
In 2009, the school district was rated "academically acceptable" by the Texas Education Agency. [2] On July 1, 2018 the Winfield Independent School District was consolidated into Mount Pleasant ISD. [3] Prior to the merger, Mount Pleasant ISD only served high school students from Winfield ISD territory, including Winfield and Millers Cove. [4]
Mount Pleasant Regional Airport (Texas) / 33.09694°N 94.96167°W / 33.09694; -94.96167. Mount Pleasant Regional Airport ( IATA: MPS, ICAO: KOSA, FAA LID: OSA) is a city-owned, public-use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) south of the central business district of Mount Pleasant, a city in Titus County, Texas, United States. [ 1]
Texas State Highway 49. State Highway 49 (SH 49) is a designated north–south state highway in Texas, running from Mount Pleasant to the Louisiana state line about three miles (4.8 km) north of Caddo Lake, where it continues as Louisiana Highway 2 to Trees, Louisiana. SH 49 covers a total distance of 71.2 miles (114.6 km).
U.S. Route 67 (US 67) is a major U.S. highway in the state of Texas. It runs from the U.S.–Mexico border west of Presidio to Texarkana at the Arkansas state line. US 67 is part of the La Entrada al Pacifico international trade corridor from its southern terminus to US 385 in McCamey.