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Texas City is a city in Galveston County, Texas, United States. Located on the southwest shoreline of Galveston Bay, Texas City is a busy deepwater port on Texas's Gulf Coast, as well as a petroleum-refining and petrochemical-manufacturing center. The population was 51,898 at the 2020 census, [ 3] making it the third-largest city in Galveston ...
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 The designations of city, town and village were superseded by Type A, B, and C general-law cities in the code.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.
While only about 20% of Texas counties are generally located within the Houston—Dallas—San Antonio—Austin areas, they serve a majority of the state's population with approximately 22,000,000 inhabitants. Texas was originally divided into municipalities (municipios in Spanish), a unit of local government under Spanish and Mexican rule.
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FIPS code. 48-53388 [ 2] GNIS feature ID. 1343067 [ 3] Website. www .odessa-tx .gov. Odessa ( / ˌoʊˈdɛsə /) is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Ector County with portions extending into Midland County. [ 4] Odessa's population was 114,428 at the 2020 census, making it the 28th-most populous city in Texas; it is the ...
214, 469, 972, and 945. FIPS code. 48-01924. GNIS feature ID. 1329377 [2] Website. cityofallen.org. Allen is a city in Collin County in the U.S. state of Texas, and a northern suburb in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. The population was 104,627 at the 2020 census, [3] and was estimated to be 111,551 in 2022. [4]
Missouri City, Texas. / 29.61861°N 95.53778°W / 29.61861; -95.53778. Missouri City is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, within the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area. The city is mostly in Fort Bend County, with a small portion in Harris County. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 74,259, an ...
268,581 sq mi (695,620 km 2) Coastline. 367 mi (591 km) Highest point. Guadalupe Peak, 8,749 feet (2,667 m) Lowest point. Gulf of Mexico, sea level. The geography of Texas is diverse and large. Occupying about 7% of the total water and land area of the U.S., [1] it is the second largest state after Alaska, and is the southernmost part of the ...