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North Central Texas College (NCTC), a five-campus community college system, is headquartered in Gainesville, with the main campus being located on the west side of town. The college, which the Texas Legislature designates as serving Cooke County, [ 19 ] has locations in Gainesville, Bowie , Corinth , Denton , Graham , and Flower Mound .
Cooke County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. At the 2020 census, its population was 41,668. [1] [2] The county seat is Gainesville. [3] The county was founded in 1848 and organized the next year. It is named for William Gordon Cooke, a soldier during the Texas Revolution. It is a part of the Texoma region.
101 S Dixon St, Gainesville, Texas Coordinates 33°37′25″N 97°08′44″W / 33.62361°N 97.14556°W / 33.62361; -97.14556 ( Cooke County Courthouse
Valley View is located in southern Cooke County. Interstate 35/U.S. Route 77 passes just east of the center of town, with access from exits 485 through 487. The highway leads north 10 miles (16 km) to Gainesville, the county seat, and south 20 miles (32 km) to Denton.
Lake Kiowa is a private residential community located in southeastern Cooke County at (33.566497, -97.007479), [4] around the lake of the same name. The lake is an impoundment on Indian Creek, part of the Trinity River watershed.
Muenster (/ ˈ m ʌ n s t ər / MUN-stər) is a city in western Cooke County, Texas, United States, along U.S. Route 82. The population was 1,536 at the 2020 census . Muenster is a primarily German-Texan city.
The area was first known to white settlers as the last stop in Texas before crossing the Red River on the Chisolm Trail. It was founded in 1887 along a particular bend in the Gainesville, Henrietta and Western Railway line, which soon became part of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, connecting Gainesville and Henrietta, and later Wichita ...
Whitesboro is located in western Grayson County. [8] U.S. Route 82 passes through the northern side of the city, and U.S. Route 377 passes through the eastern side. US 82 leads east 17 miles (27 km) to Sherman, the county seat, and west 13 miles (21 km) to Gainesville, while US 377 leads north 15 miles (24 km) to the Oklahoma border on the Red River and south 41 miles (66 km) to Denton.