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Northeast Texas is a cultural and geographic region in the northeast corner of the U.S. state of Texas.Geographically centered on two metropolitan areas strung along Interstate 20—Tyler in the west and Kilgore, Longview, Marshall to the east, [5] the areas of Greenville, Mount Pleasant, Sulphur Springs, Paris, and Texarkana in the north primarily along Interstate 30, and Jacksonville and ...
Santa Fe County, Texas formed in 1848 from lands claimed by the Republic of Texas and ceded by Mexico. It included a vast area later becoming portions of several states from New Mexico east of the Rio Grande extending northward into south-central Wyoming. Within Texas' modern boundaries, the county included the Trans-Pecos and most of the ...
North Texas is a term used primarily by residents of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex [7] [8] to refer to a geographic area of Texas, generally considered to include the area south of Oklahoma, east of Abilene, west of Paris, and north of Waco. [9]
East Texas is within the Black Belt region, the fertile area that was the center of cotton culture and enslaved African-American labor. [11] [12] East Texas has the largest Black population in the state. [13] Unlike Texas's total state racial demographics, only two counties in East Texas outside of Greater Houston's sphere had a majority minority.
It takes determination to explore all 254 Texas counties. Think, Texas columnist Michael Barnes has 30 to go.
The Territory of American Samoa has 14 counties; however, these counties are not counted by the U.S. Census Bureau (they are treated as minor civil divisions). [2] The U.S. Census Bureau counts the 3 districts and 2 atolls of American Samoa as county-equivalents. [1] [2] Eastern District, American Samoa; Manu'a District, American Samoa
Based on this average, Roberts County, northeast of Amarillo, is the reddest county in the state. Over the past four elections, the margin of victory for Republican candidates there has averaged ...
The county is named for Memucan Hunt, Jr., the first Republic of Texas Minister to the United States from 1837 to 1838 and the third Texas Secretary of the Navy from 1838 to 1839. [3] Hunt County is located in Northeast Texas, at the eastern edge of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, and the western edge of East Texas.