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A map of the United States of America with the state of Texas highlighted. Texas is a state located in the Southern United States . As of the 2020 census , [ 1 ] 29,145,505 (95.55%) of the 30,503,301 residents of Texas lived in a municipality in the 2023 estimate.
Orchard is a city in western Fort Bend County, Texas, United States, within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area. The community is located along State Highway 36 (SH 36) and the BNSF Railway between Rosenberg in Fort Bend County and Wallis in Austin County .
Early native inhabitants were the Tonkawa, Comanche, Kiowa, and Lipan Apache peoples. [3] In 1842, the Adelsverein organized in Germany to promote emigration to Texas. [4] The Fisher–Miller Land Grant set aside three million acres (12,000 km 2) to settle 600 families and single men of German, Dutch, Swiss, Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian ancestry in Texas. [5]
The Texas Triangle is a region of Texas that contains the state's five largest cities and is home to the majority of the state's population. The Texas Triangle is formed by the state's four main urban centers, Austin , Dallas-Fort Worth , Houston , and San Antonio , connected by Interstate 45 , Interstate 10 , and Interstate 35 .
On August 22, 1908, Gilcrease married Belle M. Harlow, a member of the Osage Nation. [2] He fathered two sons with Belle: William Thomas Gilcrease, Jr., who was born on July 23, 1909, in Oklahoma and died on March 16, 1967, in Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches County, Texas, and Barton Eugene Gilcrease, who was born on April 12, 1911, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and died on September 25, 1991, in San Antonio ...
Gilcrease may refer to: Thomas Gilcrease (1890–1962), American oilman, art collector and philanthropist; Gilcrease Museum, museum located northwest of downtown ...
Map of Texas City. Texas City is 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Galveston and 37 miles (60 km) southeast of Houston. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 186.58 square miles (483.24 km 2), of which 66.27 square miles (171.64 km 2) is land and 120.31 square miles (311.60 km 2), or 67.61%, is covered by water. [1]
Glasscock County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 1,169. [1] Its county seat is Garden City. [2] The county was created in 1827 and later organized in 1869. [3] It is named for George Washington Glasscock, [4] an early settler of the Austin, Texas area and the namesake of Georgetown, Texas.