Tag: Texas

  • 10 Interesting Facts About Plano

    10 Interesting Facts About Plano

    Facts About Plano Plano is a city in Collin County and Denton County, Texas, United States. Plano is part of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. Plano is the 9th largest city in Texas and the 71st largest in the United States. European settlers came to the area near present-day Plano in the early 1840s. Plano has…

  • 30 Interesting Facts About El Paso

    30 Interesting Facts About El Paso

    Facts About El Paso El Paso is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County in the far western part of the U.S. state of Texas. The estimated population of El Paso is 681,728, as of 2019, making it the 22nd-largest city in the United States, the sixth-largest city in Texas, and…

  • 20 Interesting Facts About San Antonio

    20 Interesting Facts About San Antonio

    Facts About San Antonio San Antonio officially the City of San Antonio is the seventh-most populous city in the United States and the second-most populous city in Texas. San Antonio was founded as a Spanish mission and colonial outpost in 1718, the city became the first chartered civil settlement in present-day Texas in 1731. The…

  • 10 Interesting Facts About Corpus Christi, Texas

    10 Interesting Facts About Corpus Christi, Texas

    Facts About Corpus Christi The city’s name means the body of Christ in Ecclesiastical Latin, in reference to the Christian sacrament of Holy Communion. The nickname of the city is “Sparkling City by the Sea”, particularly featured in tourist literature. Corpus Christi is a coastal city in the South Texas region of the U.S. state…

  • 10 Interesting Facts About Lubbock

    10 Interesting Facts About Lubbock

    Facts About Lubbock Lubbock is the 11th-most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Lubbock County with an estimated population of 253,851. The city is in the northwestern part of the state, a region known historically and geographically as the Llano Estacado, and ecologically is part of the southern…

  • 10 Interesting Facts About Grand Prairie

    10 Interesting Facts About Grand Prairie

    Facts About Grand Prairie Selena Gomez was born in Grand Prairie. Grand Prairie is a city in Dallas County, Tarrant County, and Ellis County, Texas, in the United States. The city of Grand Prairie was first established as Dechman by Alexander McRae Dechman in 1863. He based the name of the town on Big Prairie,…

  • 10 Interesting Facts About Garland

    10 Interesting Facts About Garland

    Facts About Garland The towns of Embree and Duck Creek were combined, and to form the city of Garland, which was incorporated in 1891. Garland is located at 32°54′26″N 96°38′7″W (32.907325, -96.635197). The city has a total area of 57.1 sq mi, of which all of it is land. The famous Spring Creek Forest Preserve…

  • 30 Interesting Facts About Austin

    30 Interesting Facts About Austin

    Facts About Austin Austin is the youngest big city in the US per capita with 90,000 total college and university students. Austin Finally Welcomes Its First Professional Sports Team: Austin FC. Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of Texas, as well as the seat and largest city of Travis County, with portions…

  • 10 Interesting Facts About Brownsville

    10 Interesting Facts About Brownsville

    Facts About Brownsville The city was founded in 1848 by American entrepreneur Charles Stillman after he developed a successful riverboat company nearby. It was named for Fort Brown, itself named after Major Jacob Brown Brownsville is a city in Cameron County in the U.S. state of Texas. The city is known for its year-round subtropical…