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Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Texas
- County
- Wharton
- Total
- 8.28 sq mi (21.45 km )
- Land
- 8.25 sq mi (21.36 km )
- Water
- 0.035 sq mi (0.09 km )
- Elevation
- 102 ft (31 m)
- Density
- 1,047.5/sq mi (404.44/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( Central (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 (CDT)
- Fips code
- 48-78136
- Website
- www .cityofwharton .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county seat
- Official name
- Wharton
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Wharton County
- Population
- 8627
- Area
- 19.479357
- Elevation
- 31
- Capital of
- Wharton County
- Official website
- www.cityofwharton.com
- Image
- Wharton, TX, sign IMG 1048.JPG
- Households
- 3293
- Dialing code
- 979
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- Commons category
- Wharton, Texas
- postal code
- 77488
- inception
- 1846-01-01
- water as percent of area
- 0.4797
- different from
- Wharton
- per capita income
- 21848
- IPA transcription
- ˈhwɔːrtən
- P12749
- Barren ground shrew
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Encyclopedic overview
Wharton is a city in and the county seat of Wharton County, Texas, United States. This city is 60 mi (97 km) southwest of Houston. Its population was 8,832 at the 2010 census and 8,627 at the 2020 census. Wharton is located on the Colorado River of Texas. U.S. Highway 59 passes west of it.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wharton” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.