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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.
Jackson, Mississippi
Jackson, Mississippi: capital and largest city of Mississippi, founded 1821 and named for Andrew Jackson. Population about 141,000 (2025), 82% Black; known for civil rights history and the 2022 water crisis under federal receivership.
Jackson, Tennessee
Jackson, Tennessee (Hub City) is the county seat of Madison County, founded 1822 and named for Andrew Jackson. Eighth-largest Tennessee city (68,205 in 2020), a railroad and Interstate 40 hub with healthcare and manufacturing as leading industries.
Jonesboro, Arkansas
Jonesboro, Arkansas: county seat of Craighead County on Crowley's Ridge, largest city in northeast Arkansas and fifth in the state, home of Arkansas State University and St. Bernards, founded 1859, population 83,296 (2025 estimate).
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.
Knoxville, Tennessee
Knoxville, Tennessee: East Tennessee's largest city, founded 1791 as capital of the Southwest Territory and named for Henry Knox. 2020 population 190,740; home of the University of Tennessee and site of the 1863 Fort Sanders battle.
Lafayette, Louisiana
Lafayette, Louisiana: parish seat of Lafayette Parish on the Vermilion River, heart of Acadiana's Cajun and Creole culture. Founded as Vermilionville, renamed 1884; consolidated city-parish government; 2020 population 121,374; oil-based economy diversified into tech and health care.
Lake Charles, Louisiana
Lake Charles, Louisiana: parish seat of Calcasieu Parish, sixth-largest Louisiana city (84,872 in 2020), named for settler Charles Sallier, home of McNeese State University, hit by Hurricane Laura in 2020.
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.
Laurel, Mississippi
Laurel, Mississippi: a Pine Belt city and Jones County judicial seat, founded 1882 as a yellow-pine lumber town, later an oil and manufacturing center, population about 17,700, known for its historic district and HGTV's Home Town.
Lawton, Oklahoma
Lawton, Oklahoma: county seat of Comanche County, founded August 6, 1901 in the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache land lottery and named for Major General Henry Ware Lawton; about 90,500 residents, anchored by Fort Sill.
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.
Little Rock, Arkansas
Little Rock, Arkansas: capital and largest city of Arkansas on the Arkansas River, named for the 1722 'la petite roche' outcropping; site of the 1957 Little Rock Nine Central High desegregation crisis; 2020 population 202,591.
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.
Lynchburg, Tennessee
Lynchburg, Tennessee: seat of Moore County and consolidated city-county government, home of the Jack Daniel Distillery (est. 1866), the nation's oldest registered distillery, in a dry county with over 250,000 annual distillery visitors.
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.
McComb, Mississippi
McComb, Mississippi: Pike County city founded 1872 by railroad president Henry S. McComb; Illinois Central shops town, Freedom Summer bombing target, population 12,413 (2020), birthplace of Bo Diddley and Britney Spears.
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.
Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis is a city in southwest Tennessee on the Mississippi River, the largest in Tennessee, known as the home of the blues and birthplace of rock 'n' roll.
Mena, Arkansas
Mena is a city in western Arkansas and the county seat of Polk County, founded in 1896 as a railroad town in the Ouachita Mountains.
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.
Mobile, Alabama
Mobile, Alabama: oldest city in the state, founded by the French in 1702 on Mobile Bay; Gulf Coast port city of about 200,000 residents, home of America's original Mardi Gras, Airbus A320neo assembly, and a new downtown airport terminal.
Monroe, Louisiana
Monroe, Louisiana: parish seat of Ouachita Parish on the Ouachita River, twin city of West Monroe. Population 47,702 (2020), 35.9% poverty rate, regional hub for health care, education, and Delta Air Lines history.