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Texas is located in West South Central United States. It borders Mexico on the southwest and the Gulf of Mexico on the southeast. To the west is New Mexico, to the north and northeast lie Oklahoma and Arkansas, and Louisiana bounds Texas on the east. Texas is second only to Alaska in land area. Traveling from east to west, the state's landscape changes from piney woods, to semi-forests of oak and cross timbers, to rolling plains and prairie, and finally to desert in the Big Bend. It is these wide open spaces of the Texas prairie that have lent currency to the phrase that "everything is bigger in Texas."

Few states possess as wide a variety of resources as Texas, and few support economic activities of comparable variety. The economy of Texas has closely reflected key technological developments that have occurred during the state’s history. Chemicals, oil refining, food processing, machinery, and transportation equipment are among the major Texas manufacturing industries. Tourism also plays a major role in the economy. A 2006 real estate survey has estimated the population of Texas at 23,904,380.

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Arlington

Thomas Brewer

Arlington Real Estate

Austin click here

Austin is located in the central part of Texas, on the Colorado River where the river emerges from the Texas hill country and the Balcones Escarpment. Austin is the northern hub of a major economic and population region that extends southward to include the San Antonio metropolitan area.

Bastrop

Janis Penick

Bastrop Real Estate

Boerne

Cindy Wilks

Boerne Real Estate

Bulverde/Spring Branch

Tina Carle and Cindy Holder
C 4 Real Estate of Texas
Phone: 512-757-3620

Bulverde/Spring Branch Real Estate
Serving Canyon Lake, Blanco, Bulverde/Spring Branch, and the San Antonio Hill Country area. Residential, Farm/Ranch, Investment and Commercial.

Canyon Lake

Tina Carle and Cindy Holder
C 4 Real Estate of Texas
Phone: 512-757-3620

Canyon Lake Real Estate
Serving Canyon Lake, Blanco, Bulverde/Spring Branch, and the San Antonio Hill Country area. Residential, Farm/Ranch, Investment and Commercial.

Cedar Park

Jeff Boyce

Cedar Park Real Estate

Conroe

Cheryl Wise

E-mail: osowise@hotmail.com

Corpus Christi click here

Corpus Christi is located in southern Texas and a port of entry on Corpus Christi Bay, just southeast of the mouth of the Nueces River. It has a landlocked harbor connected to the Gulf of Mexico by Aransas Pass, a break in the string of low sand islands stretching along much of the state’s coast.

Cypress

Deana & Earl Rudel

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Dallas click here

Dalls has a diversified economic base. Service industries, including trade, make up the city’s most important economic sector, followed by manufacturing. Dallas remains an important distribution, financial, and insurance center of the Southwest. It is the site of a district Federal Reserve bank and the headquarters of a number of federal regional offices and large insurance and oil companies.

Denton

Don Arnold

El Paso click here

El Paso is located just south of New Mexico on the Río Grande, opposite Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. It is a port of entry from Mexico and a major road, rail, and air transportation center. With close cultural and economic ties to Ciudad Juárez, El Paso features a blend of United States and Mexican cultures and serves as a gateway to northern Mexico for both tourism and international trade.

Frisco

Douglas Ogburn

Frisco Real Estate

Fort Worth click here

Fort Worth is located in northern Texas, on the Clear Fork of the Trinity River. Fort Worth has a level to rolling terrain and a continental climate, with hot summers and moderately cold winters. The city is a major road, rail, and air junction, as well as a manufacturing and processing center with a diversified economy. Its economy relied on military bases, particularly Carswell Air Force Base.

Garland click here

Garland is located in northeastern Texas, in Dallas, Collin, and Rockwall counties. The city is a residential and industrial suburb of Dallas. Garland has a strong manufacturing sector, producing electronic components, paints, chemicals, and processed foods; steel and other metals are also fabricated in the area.

Georgetown

Sherry Scales, GRI, ABR, SRES, CLHMS

Houston click here

Houston is located in southeastern Texas, at the head of the Houston Ship Channel, which links the city to the Gulf of Mexico. Houston is an inland seaport and a major financial, distribution, and manufacturing center for the southern United States. It is the largest city in Texas and the fourth largest in the country, behind New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago.

Kingwood

Jennifer Blalock

Kingwood Real Estate

Lubbock click here

Lubbock is located in north central Texas, on the Double Mountain Fork of the Brazos River near the eastern edge of the Llano Estacado, considered one of the world’s flattest areas. Lubbock is a commercial and manufacturing center for the surrounding irrigated High Plains region, where cotton, grain, and cattle are raised.

Magnolia

Deana & Earl Rudel

Web Site

Plano click here

Plano is located in the northern portion of a large metropolitan region centered on Dallas. Several companies, including J. C. Penney Company and Frito Lay Inc., have corporate headquarters in Plano. The city hosts a hot-air balloon festival each September.

Round Rock

Jeff Boyce

Round Rock Real Estate

San Antonio click here

San Antonio is located in an area of rolling hills on the San Antonio River and San Pedro Creek, which issue from springs in the city. The streams bubble forth from the huge Edwards Aquifer, San Antonio’s only source of water, which collects rainwater from the Texas Hill Country to the northwest and channels it underground through porous limestone. San Antonio is famous for its Spanish heritage and its unique mix of Mexican, Anglo, and German cultures.

Southlake click here

Southlake is located in Tarrant County on Highway 114 and is part of the Dallas metropolitan area.

Spring

Deana & Earl Rudel

Web Site

Sugar Land

Patsy Stikeleather

Sugar Land Real Estate

Tomball

Deana & Earl Rudel

Web Site

Waller

Deana & Earl Rudel

Web Site

The widespread use of barbed wire in the 1880s enabled improvements in cattle breeding and ranching. By the 1920s the ravages of the boll weevil elsewhere in the southern United States, combined with advances in irrigation techniques, led to greatly increased cotton production in the state, sustaining a major industry that has endured to the present. Commercial production of oil began in 1894. However, the first large-scale production resulted from the discovery of petroleum at Spindletop, near Beaumont, in the southeastern part of the state, in 1901. During the 20th century Texas became the leading oil-producing and oil-refining state in the United States. At the same time, the state’s economy shifted gradually from dependence on agriculture and lumbering to large-scale manufacturing, spurred by industries associated with petroleum, such as the production of petrochemicals and the manufacture of equipment for the oil and gas industry. Oil, cotton, and cattle have now been joined by hundreds of other business and industrial activities. Some of these reflect further technological developments, such as those of the aerospace and computer industries. A further stimulus to diversification was the decline of oil prices in the mid-1980s, which hurt the state’s energy-producing industries. The Texas economy benefited from the many federal military installations located in the state and from other U.S. facilities such as the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, near Houston. A number of major corporations have headquarters in Texas, especially in Houston and the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

Houston, with a population of 1,953,631 in 2000, is the dominant city on the coast. It is a shipping point for goods produced throughout the Southwest and has the central administrative offices of many oil, gas, and pipeline companies. Beaumont, with 113,866 people, and Port Arthur, with 57,755, are twin seaport cities in southeastern Texas. Galveston, with 57,247 people, and Texas City, with 41,521, are seaports on Galveston Bay south of Houston. Galveston is located on an island, and its long beaches on the Gulf side of the island make it a popular summer resort. Texas City leans more toward manufacturing. Corpus Christi, with 277,454 people, is the major city in the southern part of the Gulf Coast section.

The Black Prairies, stretching down the northwestern edge of the Coastal Plain, originally constituted Texas’s richest cotton-farming country. The farm population has declined there, but the cities have grown. Dallas, with 1,188,580 people in 2000, for example, is at the center of one of the fastest growing regions of the country. Just west of Dallas, between Dallas and Fort Worth, is Arlington, with a population of 332,969. Arlington is an industrial and tourist center.

San Antonio, with 1,144,646 people in 2000, was first settled by Spaniards. It became the capital of their Texas territory during the late 18th and 19th centuries. Later its growth was spurred by the development of the surrounding rich Black Prairies farming area. Austin has a population of 656,562 and is the capital city of Texas. Waco, with 113,726 people, is a transportation and distribution center.

Fort Worth, with 534,694 people in 2000, is the major metropolitan center of the Central Lowland. Although Fort Worth and Dallas are only 50 km (30 mi) apart, Dallas tends to face east in its business interests and Fort Worth is more concerned with the farmlands, ranchlands, and oil fields to the west. Wichita Falls, with 104,197 people, is another large city in the Central Lowland. Its rapid growth has been spurred by the discovery of large petroleum deposits nearby.

The Basin and Range province is largely unpopulated. Great expanses of land are too mountainous and dry to support human habitation. Some scenic parts of this country are held in state and national parks, yet there are also important ranchlands there. El Paso, with 563,662 people in 2000, is the major city in the Basin and Range province.

The eastern Texas section of the Coastal Plain, or that portion of the Coastal Plain lying inland from the Gulf Coast and east of the Black Prairies, was one of the first parts of the state to be settled by farmers from states to the east. It was a cotton-growing region, and after the abolition of slavery many of the cotton lands were farmed by black and white tenant farmers, operating largely as sharecroppers. In 1930, in some of the counties of eastern Texas, as many as 60 percent of the farmers were tenants. It is in this part of Texas that the farm population has declined the most. Farm tenancy has also dropped sharply. Some counties have lost as much as half their population since the 1930s.

The southern Texas section of the Coastal Plain is much more thinly populated than the Gulf Coast section. There are no seaports, except at the mouth of the Río Grande, and not many large towns. Generally this land is ranching country. There are only two sizable concentrations of population, the city of Laredo and a cluster of cities near the mouth of the Río Grande. Laredo, with a 2000 population of 176,576, is located on the Mexican border. Through the city is funneled a great deal of traffic and trade between Mexico and the United States. Brownsville, with 139,722 people, is the largest of a belt of cities that dominates the Río Grande Valley from the Gulf Coast to a point 100 km (60 mi) inland.

The High Plains section of the Great Plains extends over most of the Texas Panhandle. The population has increased considerably as ranching has given way to crop farming. More important, several towns and cities have grown very rapidly as agricultural or petroleum and natural gas centers. Amarillo, with 173,627 people in 2000, has been replaced by Lubbock, with 199,564 people, as the largest city of the High Plains. Lubbock has grown rapidly with the development of irrigated cotton farming in the surrounding area. The Edwards Plateau, the rough southern part of the Texas Great Plains, is thinly populated. Some people in the rugged Hill Country support themselves through tourism. San Angelo, with 88,439 people, is the only city of substantial size on the plateau.

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