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Bexar County, Guadalupe County and Karnes County: James Charles Wilson, a Texas state senator (1851–1853) 54,183: 807 sq mi (2,090 km 2) Winkler County: 495: Kermit: 1887: Tom Green County: Clinton Winkler, an appeals court judge, Texas state representative, and Confederate colonel 7,414: 841 sq mi (2,178 km 2) Wise County: 497: Decatur: 1856 ...
Physical geography. Texas covers a total area of 268,581 square miles (695,622 km 2). The longest straight-line distance is from the northwest corner of the panhandle to the Rio Grande river just below Brownsville, 801 miles (1,289 km). [1] The greatest east–west distance is 773 miles (1,244 km) from the extreme eastward bend in the Sabine ...
Land grants from the state of Texas to railroad companies were often patented in blocks and sections, and occasionally in units of square miles, officially considered sections. The Texas Land Survey System is often measured in Spanish Customary Units. The most important of these is the vara, which, while ambiguous in the past, was legally ...
Covering 268,596 square miles (695,660 km 2), and with over 30 million residents as of 2023, [10] [11] [12] it is the second-largest state by both area and population. Texas is nicknamed the Lone Star State for its former status as an independent republic. [13] Spain was the first European country to claim and control the area of Texas.
Harris County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas; as of the 2020 census, the population was 4,731,145, [1] making it the most populous county in Texas and the third-most populous county in the United States. Its county seat is Houston, the most populous city in Texas and fourth-most populous city in the United States. The county was ...
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Texas: Texas – second-most populous and the second-most extensive of the 50 states of the United States of America. Texas borders Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico in the South Central United States. Texas is placed in the Southern United States by the United States Census ...
Tarrant County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas with a 2020 U.S. census population of 2,110,640, making it the third-most populous county in Texas and the 15th-most populous in the United States. Its county seat is Fort Worth. [1] Tarrant County, one of 26 counties created out of the Peters Colony, was established in 1849 and ...
The Texas Panhandle is slightly larger in size than the US state of West Virginia. An additional 62.75 sq mi (162.53 km 2) is covered by water. Its population as of the 2010 census was 427,927 residents, or 1.7% of the state's total population. As of the 2010 census, the population density for the region was 16.6 per square mile (6.4/km 2 ...