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Abilene, Texas
Abilene, Texas: county seat of Taylor County and principal city of the Abilene metro, founded 1881 by the Texas and Pacific Railway; about 125,000 residents, home of Dyess AFB, three private universities, and the flagship Stargate AI data center campus.
Ada, Oklahoma
Ada, Oklahoma: county seat of Pontotoc County in southeast Oklahoma and home of the Chickasaw Nation headquarters and East Central University. Founded 1891, incorporated 1901; 2020 population 16,481.
Alexandria, Louisiana
Alexandria, Louisiana: parish seat of Rapides Parish on the Red River near the state's geographic center; founded by Alexander Fulton in 1805; 2020 population 45,275; regional hub and major ICE deportation-flight airport.
Allen, Texas
Allen, Texas, a Collin County city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex (also called Allen, TX), named for Ebenezer Allen; population about 113,000 in 2025, median household income about $131,000, anchored by Allen ISD and SH 121 corridor employers.
Alpine, Texas
Alpine, Texas: Brewster County city and Big Bend region hub, home of Sul Ross State University, population about 6,000, gateway on US-90 and TX 118 with ongoing water infrastructure challenges.
Amarillo, Texas
Amarillo, Texas: largest city of the Texas Panhandle, founded 1887 as a railroad cattle-shipping town, county seat of Potter County, helium capital, home of Pantex, population about 205,000.
Arlington, Texas
Arlington, Texas, a city of about 400,000 in Tarrant County midway between Dallas and Fort Worth; founded 1876, incorporated 1884, home of AT&T Stadium, the Texas Rangers, Six Flags Over Texas, and UT Arlington.
Austin, Texas
Austin, Texas: capital of Texas, seat of Travis County, founded 1839 as Republic of Texas capital on the site of Waterloo. Home of UT Austin, tech hub, Live Music Capital; 1,002,632 residents in 2025 Census estimates.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Baton Rouge, Louisiana's capital city on the east bank of the Mississippi River, named for a 1699 red-pole boundary marker; consolidated city-parish government since 1947, population 227,470 in 2020.
Beaumont, Texas
Beaumont, Texas: seat of Jefferson County in Southeast Texas, incorporated 1838, population 115,282 (2020). Transformed by the 1901 Spindletop oil gusher; now a Golden Triangle petrochemical and port city home to Lamar University.
Bentonville, Arkansas
Bentonville, Arkansas: Benton County seat and Walmart headquarters town, population about 63,000 (2025), home of Crystal Bridges Museum, the new 350-acre Walmart Home Office, and the Plan Bentonville growth code.
Biloxi, Mississippi
Biloxi is a city in Harrison County, Mississippi, on the Gulf of Mexico, with a 2020 population of 49,449 and an economy built on casinos, tourism, seafood, and Keesler Air Force Base.
Boerne, Texas
Boerne (pronounced Bernie) is the county seat of Kendall County, Texas, on Cibolo Creek 30 miles northwest of San Antonio. Founded 1849 by German settlers as Tusculum, renamed 1852 for Ludwig Boerne; 17,850 residents in 2020, rapid growth since.
Brentwood, Tennessee
Brentwood, Tennessee is an affluent Williamson County suburb of Nashville, incorporated April 15, 1969 with 3,378 residents; 2020 population 45,373, median household income $182,088, median home value $1,031,300, 90 percent residential zoning.
Bristol, Tennessee
Bristol, Tennessee is a Sullivan County city of about 28,000 (2025 estimate) forming a twin city with Bristol, Virginia along State Street. Founded 1852 by Joseph R. Anderson; incorporated 1856; Birthplace of Country Music and home of Bristol Motor Speedway.
Broken Arrow, Oklahoma
Broken Arrow, Oklahoma: fourth-largest city in the state (124,991 est. 2025), largest Tulsa suburb in Tulsa and Wagoner counties, founded 1902 as a Katy Railroad townsite named for a Muscogee tribal town.
Brownsville, Texas
Brownsville, Texas: county seat of Cameron County at the state's southernmost tip, across the Rio Grande from Matamoros. Founded 1848 by Charles Stillman near Fort Brown; home of the Port of Brownsville (1936) and near SpaceX's Starbase; population about 188,000.
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Chattanooga, Tennessee: the state's fourth-largest city on the Tennessee River, founded as Ross's Landing, incorporated 1839, a Civil War rail hub, TVA and cleanup-era industrial city, and EPB gigabit broadband pioneer.
Clarksdale, Mississippi
Clarksdale, Mississippi: county seat of Coahoma County in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, founded 1848 by John Clark, incorporated 1882; famed as the home of the blues, the 61/49 Crossroads, and the Delta Blues Museum.
Clarksville, Tennessee
Clarksville, Tennessee: county seat of Montgomery County, founded 1784 at the Cumberland-Red River confluence and named for George Rogers Clark. Second-oldest Middle Tennessee city; 188,829 residents (2025 estimate); home of Fort Campbell and Austin Peay State University.
College Station, Texas
College Station is a Texas city in Brazos County, adjoining Bryan, best known as the home of Texas A&M University; it was incorporated in 1938.
Conroe, Texas
Conroe, Texas, the Montgomery County seat on I-45 north of Houston, was founded in 1881 as Isaac Conroe's sawmill, boomed on the 1931 Strake oil discovery, and grew from 56,207 people in 2010 to about 119,564 by 2025, straining its water infrastructure.
Conway, Arkansas
Conway, Arkansas, county seat of Faulkner County, the City of Colleges (UCA, Hendrix, Central Baptist), incorporated 1875, grown from 64,134 in 2020 to an estimated 72,328 in 2025.
Cookeville, Tennessee
Cookeville, Tennessee: county seat of Putnam County and largest city of the Upper Cumberland region, home of Tennessee Tech University and Cookeville Regional Medical Center; 2025 estimated population 38,212, growing 9.7% since 2020.
Corpus Christi, Texas
Corpus Christi, Texas: coastal city and county seat of Nueces County, largest city on the Texas coast (pop. about 317,000), home of the Port of Corpus Christi, the largest U.S. energy export terminal, now facing a severe drought-driven water crisis.
Covington, Louisiana
Covington, Louisiana: parish seat of St. Tammany Parish on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain, about 40 miles from New Orleans. Founded July 4, 1813 as the Town of Wharton by John Wharton Collins; renamed 1816 for General Leonard Covington; known for its ox-lot historic district.
Cushing, Oklahoma
Cushing is a city in Payne County, Oklahoma, serving as the delivery and pricing point for West Texas Intermediate crude and one of the world's largest oil storage hubs.
Dallas
Dallas is a city in north Texas and the seat of Dallas County, founded in 1841 and now the ninth largest city in the United States.
Del Rio, Texas
Del Rio, Texas, is a city in Val Verde County on the Rio Grande across from Ciudad Acuña, Mexico, home to about 34,700 people and Laughlin Air Force Base.
Denton, Texas
Denton, Texas: county seat of Denton County in north-central Texas, a university town home to UNT and Texas Woman's University. 139,869 residents in 2020, 169,431 estimated 2025; known for its courthouse square and music scene.