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Huntsville, Texas
Huntsville, Texas, is a city of about 46,000 in East Texas and the seat of Walker County, known for Sam Houston's estate, its 1849 prison, and Sam Houston State University.
Irving
Irving, Texas: city between Dallas and Fort Worth, founded 1903 by Schulze and Brown, incorporated 1914, named for Washington Irving; 13th-largest Texas city, about 257,000 residents, Las Colinas district, nine Fortune 500 headquarters.
Katy, Texas
Katy, Texas: a tri-county city about 30 miles west of Houston, founded as an 1890s Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad town, incorporated 1945, population 28,373 in 2025, growing 29.7% since 2020.
Kerrville, Texas
Kerrville, Texas: county seat of Kerr County on the Guadalupe River in the Texas Hill Country, founded 1856 and named for James Kerr; population 24,278 (2020), home of Schreiner University and the Kerrville Folk Festival, hit by deadly July 4, 2025 floods.
Killeen, Texas
Killeen, Texas: Bell County city founded in 1882 as a Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad town, transformed by Camp Hood (1942), now Fort Cavazos; 2020 census population 153,095, council-manager government.
Lake Jackson, Texas
Lake Jackson, Texas, the "City of Enchantment," is a Brazoria County city founded in 1941 as a Dow Chemical company town, designed by Alden B. Dow, incorporated in 1944, population 28,177 in 2020.
Laredo, Texas
Laredo, Texas: city on the Rio Grande across from Nuevo Laredo, founded 1755 by Tomás Sánchez as Villa de San Agustín de Laredo; home of Port Laredo, the busiest U.S. cargo entry point, with about $339.7 billion in 2024 trade.
League City
League City, Texas: largest city in Galveston County on Clear Creek near Clear Lake and Johnson Space Center; 114,392 residents in 2020, city 2026 estimate 125,884; founded 1890s by J.C. League.
Lewisville, Texas
Lewisville, Texas: a Denton County city about 23 miles north of Dallas, incorporated 1925, population about 139,000-140,880 after the 2021 Castle Hills annexation, on Lewisville Lake along I-35E.
Longview, Texas
Longview is a city in eastern Texas serving as the seat of Gregg County, founded as a railroad town in the early 1870s and home to about 83,000 people.
Lubbock, Texas
Lubbock, Texas, the Hub City and county seat of Lubbock County on the South Plains: founded 1890, home of Texas Tech University, a West Texas health care and cotton trade center of about 273,000 people.
Lufkin, Texas
Lufkin, Texas, is the seat of Angelina County in East Texas, established in 1882 along the Houston, East and West Texas Railway and home to 34,143 people in 2020.
Marfa, Texas
Marfa, Texas: county seat of Presidio County in the Chihuahuan Desert, founded 1883 as a railroad water stop, later a Fort D. A. Russell military town, now a Donald Judd-anchored international art destination.
McAllen, Texas
McAllen, Texas: largest city in Hidalgo County in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, across from Reynosa, Mexico. Founded 1904, incorporated 1911, nicknamed the City of Palms; cross-border retail, healthcare, and Winter Texan economy.
McKinney, Texas
McKinney, Texas: county seat of Collin County, about 30 miles north of Dallas on US 75; population about 237,130 (2026), named for Collin McKinney, a fast-growing suburb with a new airport terminal.
Midland, Texas
Midland, Texas, also known as the Tall City, is a city in West Texas and the county seat of Midland County, at the heart of the Permian Basin oil region.
Nacogdoches, Texas
Nacogdoches is a city and the county seat of Nacogdoches County in Deep East Texas, named for a Caddoan tribe and founded in 1779.
New Braunfels, Texas
New Braunfels, Texas: Comal County seat city founded March 21, 1845 by Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels' Adelsverein colonists on the Comal and Guadalupe rivers; about 122,500 residents (2025), tubing on the 2.5-mile Comal, Wurstfest, Schlitterbahn, $1.3 billion hospitality economy.
Odessa, Texas
Odessa, Texas: Ector County city in the Permian Basin oil region, founded 1886 by the Odessa Land and Townsite Company, incorporated 1927, council-manager government, 2020 population 114,428.
Palestine, Texas
Palestine, Texas: county seat of Anderson County in East Texas, founded 1846 and named for Palestine, Illinois. Railroad town, oil at Boggy Creek 1928, population 18,544 (2020), Texas State Railroad terminus.
Paris, Texas
Paris, Texas: county seat of Lamar County in northeast Texas, founded 1844 by George W. Wright and named for Paris, France. Known for its 65-foot Eiffel Tower replica with a red cowboy hat; population about 25,000 with a manufacturing-heavy economy.
Pasadena, Texas
Pasadena, Texas is a Harris County city of about 148,500 bordering the Houston Ship Channel, named after Pasadena, California, incorporated in 1928, near the 1836 San Jacinto battle site, and anchored by petrochemical industry.
Pearland, Texas
Pearland, Texas: fast-growing Houston suburb of about 130,000 in Brazoria, Harris, and Fort Bend counties; founded 1882 as a railroad siding, once a fig-farming town, now a diverse bedroom community with 32.7-minute commutes.
Plano, Texas
Plano, Texas, a city in southwestern Collin County on U.S. Highway 75 fifteen miles north of Dallas; incorporated 1873, named from Spanish for "flat," now a Dallas suburb of about 293,000 with major corporate offices.
Port Arthur, Texas
Port Arthur, Texas: Gulf Coast city in Jefferson County, founded 1895 by Arthur Stilwell, incorporated 1898; population about 56,000. Oil refining city since Spindletop 1901, now home to the Sempra Port Arthur LNG export terminal (Phases 1 and 2, 26 Mtpa).
Richardson, Texas
Richardson, Texas: a Dallas–Collin County suburb about 14 miles north of downtown Dallas on US 75, founded 1873 as a railroad town, incorporated 1925, population 119,469 (2020), known as the Telecom Corridor.
Round Rock, Texas
Round Rock, Texas: Williamson County city 15 miles north of Austin, named for a round rock in Brushy Creek on the Chisholm Trail; founded 1851, population about 143,000, home of Dell.
San Angelo, Texas
San Angelo, Texas: county seat of Tom Green County in West Central Texas, founded across the Concho River from Fort Concho (1867). About 100,000 residents; home to Goodfellow Air Force Base and Angelo State University.
San Antonio
San Antonio, Texas: city founded in 1718 as Presidio San Antonio de Béxar, Mission San Antonio de Valero, and Villa de Béxar; five Spanish colonial missions (UNESCO 2015); 2025 population 1,548,422, seventh-largest US city.
San Marcos, Texas
San Marcos, Texas: Hays County seat between Austin and San Antonio, founded 1851 on spring-fed San Marcos River headwaters from the Edwards Aquifer, home of Texas State University, population about 78,000-91,000.