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The types of municipalities in Texas are defined in the Local Government Code, which was codified in 1987. The designations of city, town and village were superseded by Type A, B, and C general-law cities in the code. [5] In Texas, there are two forms of municipal government: general-law and home-rule.
The list of rivers of Texas is a list of all named waterways, including rivers and streams that partially pass through or are entirely located within the U.S. state of Texas. Across the state, there are 3,700 named streams and 15 major rivers accounting for over 191,000 mi (307,000 km) of waterways.
The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) code, which is used by the United States government to uniquely identify states and counties, is provided with each entry. [7] Texas' code is 48, which when combined with any county code would be written in the form of 48XXX. The FIPS code for each county in the table links to census data for ...
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 17:35, 6 June 2019: 7,003 × 8,786 (13.33 MB): Michael Barera == {{int:filedesc}} == {{Map |title = ''Map of Texas with Parts of the Adjoining States'' |description = {{en|A requirement of the Anglo-American ''empresario'' Stephen F. Austin's contract with the Mexican government included compiling a map of his Texas colony, which he ...
In addition to cities and counties, Texas has numerous special districts. As with municipal elections in Texas, board members or trustees are elected on a nonpartisan basis or may be appointed. The most common is the independent school district, which (with one exception) has a board of trustees that is independent of any other governing ...
The following is a complete list of 25 metropolitan areas in Texas, as defined by the United States Office of Management and Budget. The largest two are ranked among the top 10 metropolitan areas in the U.S. Some metropolitan areas contain metropolitan divisions. Two metropolitan divisions exist within the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington MSA.
The Threads post, which has received over 1,000 likes as of writing, claims Texas has purportedly gifted Trump 355,000 acres of land for deportation camps. “Texas just gifted Trump 355,000 acres ...
Cotton is the most common crop grown in South Plains region. In 2004 and again in 2005, records were broken for cotton production. [1] In an extended area comprising 31 counties in and near the South Plains, more than a million bales of cotton were harvested in 2005. This makes the South Plains the world’s largest cotton-producing region.