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Denison
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city in Grayson County, Texas, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Texas
- County
- Grayson
- Type
- Council-manager
- Total
- 29.06 sq mi (75.27 km )
- Land
- 28.61 sq mi (74.09 km )
- Water
- 0.46 sq mi (1.18 km ) 1.94%
- Elevation
- 728 ft (222 m)
- Density
- 855.7/sq mi (330.4/km )
- Demonyms
- Denisonite Denisonian
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 (CDT)
- Zip codes
- 75020–75021
- Area codes
- 903, 430
- Fips code
- 48-19900
- Website
- www .denisontx .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Denison is a city in Grayson County, Texas, United States, 1 mile (1.6 km) south of the Texas–Oklahoma border. Its population was 24,479 at the 2020 census, up from 22,682 at the 2010 census. Denison is part of the Texoma region and is one of two principal cities in the Sherman–Denison metropolitan statistical area. It is the birthplace of 34th U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Denison” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.