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Texas City, Illinois. / 37.87833°N 88.39333°W / 37.87833; -88.39333. Texas City is an unincorporated community in Rector Township, Saline County, Illinois, United States. Texas City is located at the junction of U.S. Route 45 and County Highway 6 5 miles (8.0 km) north-northeast of Eldorado. [2]
Several of the states that derive their names from names used for Native peoples have retained the plural ending in "s": Arkansas, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, and Texas. One common naming pattern has been as follows: Native tribal group → River → Territory → State.
This is a list of the most common U.S. place names (cities, towns, villages, boroughs and census-designated places [CDP]), with the number of times that name occurs (in parentheses). [1] Some states have more than one occurrence of the same name. Cities with populations over 100,000 are in bold.
According to the 2020 United States census Illinois is the 6th most populous state with 12,812,508 inhabitants but the 24th largest by land area spanning 55,499.0 square miles (143,742 km 2) of land. [1] Illinois is divided into 102 counties and, as of 2020, contained 1,300 municipalities consisting of cities, towns, and villages.
The suffix "-ville," from the French word for "city" is common for town and city names throughout the United States. Many originally French place names, possibly hundreds, in the Midwest and Upper West were replaced with directly translated English names once American settlers became locally dominant (e.g. "La Petite Roche" became Little Rock ...
This is a list of mayors of the 50 largest cities in the United States, ordered by their populations as of July 1, 2022, as estimated by the United States Census Bureau. [ 1][ 2] These 50 cities have a combined population of 49.6 million, or 15% of the national population. Honolulu, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Louisville, and Nashville have ...
1.9 Illinois. 1.10 Indiana. 1.11 ... of legal slavery in the United States in the 19th ... in the territory that it would become a Black-governed state. In Texas, 357 ...
Waxahachie? Here are 20 Texas city names you might be mispronouncing. Gannett. Marley Malenfant , Austin American-Statesman. May 21, 2024 at 7:04 AM. Texas has a blend of cultures and a rich ...