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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dripping Springs, Texas
Dripping Springs, Texas: a fast-growing Hays County city on US 290 about 25 miles west of Austin, founded in the 1850s, known as the Wedding Capital of Texas, a Dark Sky Community, and a Hill Country winery and tourism destination.
Eagle Pass, Texas
Eagle Pass, Texas, county seat of Maverick County on the Rio Grande opposite Piedras Negras, Coahuila; founded as El Paso del Aguila, about 28,000 residents, two international bridges, and center of the Shelby Park border standoff.
Edinburg, Texas
Edinburg, Texas, county seat of Hidalgo County in the Rio Grande Valley, founded as Chapin in 1908 and renamed 1911. Population about 110,700 (2025 estimate); major employers include DHR Health, UTRGV, and Edinburg CISD.
El Paso, Texas
El Paso, Texas: major city at the state's far western tip on the Rio Grande across from Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua; 678,815 residents (2020 census), 81.6% Hispanic, $81.9 billion border trade (2018), founded as El Paso del Norte, boomtown after 1881 railroads.
Flower Mound, Texas
Flower Mound, Texas: a master-planned town in Denton County, incorporated 1961 to avoid Irving annexation, named for a flower-covered mound, part of the 1841 Peters Colony, population about 81,925 in 2025.
Fort Worth, Texas
Fort Worth, Texas: major North Central Texas city on the Trinity River, founded 1849 as an army fort, known as Cowtown; 10th largest US city with 1,028,117 residents (2025 estimate), economy led by aviation, defense, and transportation.
Fredericksburg, Texas
Fredericksburg, Texas (Friedrichsburg): Gillespie County seat in the Texas Hill Country, founded May 8, 1846 by German Adelsverein settlers; German heritage town, wine and tourism hub with $175M visitor spending in 2024.
Frisco, Texas
Frisco, Texas: Collin County city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, founded 1902 as a St. Louis–San Francisco Railway town named Emerson; population grew from 116,989 (2010) to about 249,000, home of Toyota Stadium and Grand Park.
Galveston, Texas
Galveston, Texas: island city chartered 1839, 19th-century principal Texas port, site of the deadly September 8, 1900 hurricane (about 8,000 deaths), seawall and grade-raising recovery, and today the 4th-ranked U.S. cruise port with about 53,700 residents.
Garland, Texas
Garland, Texas, is a city in Dallas County founded in 1887 as a railroad town; its 2020 population was 246,018, making it Texas's 13th largest city.
Georgetown, Texas
Georgetown, Texas: county seat of Williamson County on I-35 and the San Gabriel River, founded 1848 and named for George Washington Glasscock; home of Southwestern University (1873), a 100% renewable municipal utility, and one of the fastest-growing U.S. cities, reaching 106,907 in 2025.
Grand Prairie, Texas
Grand Prairie, Texas, a city of about 196,100 (2020 census) in Dallas, Tarrant, and Ellis counties between Dallas and Fort Worth; founded as Dechman in 1863, renamed 1877, transformed by World War II aviation plants.
Grapevine, Texas
Grapevine, Texas: Tarrant County city of about 50,700 on the Grapevine Prairie, named for wild mustang grapes, incorporated 1907; home of Grapevine Lake, DFW Airport adjacency, TEXRail, and the Christmas Capital of Texas trademark.
Harlingen, Texas
Harlingen, Texas: a Rio Grande Valley city in Cameron County founded in 1904 by Lon C. Hill, population about 72,000, a distribution and healthcare center with Valley International Airport, the Port of Harlingen, and low cost of living.
Houston
Houston is a city in southeastern Texas, founded in 1836 and named for General Sam Houston; it is the largest city in Texas and fourth-largest in the United States.