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Texarkana
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city in Bowie County, Texas, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Texas
- County
- Bowie
- Established
- December 8, 1873 / June 12, 1874
- Type
- Council-Manager
- Mayor
- Bob Bruggeman
- Total
- 29.47 sq mi (76.33 km )
- Land
- 29.03 sq mi (75.20 km )
- Water
- 0.44 sq mi (1.13 km )
- Elevation
- 325 ft (99 m)
- Density
- 1,228.1/sq mi (474.16/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 (CDT)
- Zip codes
- 755XX.
- Area codes
- 903 , 430
- Fips code
- 48-72368
- Website
- texarkanatexas.gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Texarkana, TX - Official Website | Official Website
ci.texarkana.tx.us →Link to the official site · 791 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- Texarkana
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Bowie County
- Population
- 36193
- Area
- 76.274239
- Elevation
- 91
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Texarkana
- Official website
- www.ci.texarkana.tx.us
- Image
- Municipal building, Texarkana, TX IMG 6411.jpg
- Households
- 14148
- Dialing code
- 903
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- Commons category
- Texarkana, Texas
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Texarkana, Texas
- topic's main category
- Category:Texarkana, Texas
- different from
- Texarkana
- postal code
- 75599
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Texarkana, Texas
- inception
- 1873-12-08
- water as percent of area
- 1.3864
- per capita income
- 29292
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Sources (12)
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Encyclopedic overview
Texarkana is a city in Bowie County, Texas, United States, in the Ark-La-Tex region. Located approximately 180 miles (290 km) from Dallas, Texarkana is a twin city with neighboring Texarkana, Arkansas. The Texas city's population was 36,193 at the 2020 census.
The city and its Arkansas counterpart form the core of the Texarkana metropolitan statistical area, encompassing all of Bowie County, Texas, and Miller County, Arkansas. The two cities had a combined population of 65,580 in the 2020 decennial census, and the metropolitan area had a population of 149,482.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Texarkana” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.