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Sheet TX-06 · 1,200+ incorporated municipalities · 254 counties · largest: Houston
Texas has more than 1,200 incorporated cities, towns and villages, and most of them have fewer than 5,000 residents. The map plots the cities with their own pages; the tables below add the small towns that people actually use to navigate — the county seats, the highway junctions, the river crossings and the county-line stops.
Every marker is a city with its own page. Zoom past level 8 and the base map fills in the unincorporated communities and crossroads that are too small to plot.
The 25 largest cities
# City County Population (2020) 1 Houston Harris 2,304,580 2 San Antonio Bexar 1,434,625 3 Dallas Dallas 1,304,379 4 Austin Travis 961,855 5 Fort Worth Tarrant 918,915 6 El Paso El Paso 678,815 7 Arlington Tarrant 394,266 8 Corpus Christi Nueces 317,863 9 Plano Collin 285,494 10 Lubbock Lubbock 257,141 11 Irving Dallas 256,684 12 Laredo Webb 255,205 13 Garland Dallas 246,018 14 Frisco Collin 200,509 15 Amarillo Potter 200,393 16 Grand Prairie Dallas 196,100 17 McKinney Collin 195,308 18 Brownsville Cameron 186,738 19 Killeen Bell 153,095 20 Pasadena Harris 151,950 21 Mesquite Dallas 150,108 22 McAllen Hidalgo 142,210 23 Denton Denton 139,869 24 Waco McLennan 138,486 25 Carrollton Dallas 133,434
Populations are city-proper counts from the 2020 U.S. Census, not metro figures. Six Texas cities passed 600,000 in 2020; the smallest city on this list still ranks in the top 500 nationally.
Panhandle and South Plains towns
Town County Where it is
Canyon Randall I-27 south of Amarillo; West Texas A&M and the road into Palo Duro Canyon Dalhart Dallam Northwest Panhandle where US-87 and US-385 cross Perryton Ochiltree Northernmost town in Texas, on US-83 at the Oklahoma line Borger Hutchinson Above the Canadian River breaks near Lake Meredith Dumas Moore US-287 north of Amarillo Pampa Gray Eastern Panhandle on SH-70 and US-60 Shamrock Wheeler I-40 near the Oklahoma line; old Route 66 town Childress Childress US-287 between Amarillo and Wichita Falls Turkey Hall Below the Caprock on SH-86; Bob Wills's hometown Hereford Deaf Smith US-60/US-385 west of Canyon, feedlot country Plainview Hale I-27 halfway between Lubbock and Amarillo Tulia Swisher I-27 at the edge of the Tule Canyon breaks Levelland Hockley US-385 west of Lubbock on the Llano Estacado Muleshoe Bailey US-84 near the New Mexico line Post Garza US-84 at the foot of the Caprock Escarpment
North Texas and the Cross Timbers
Town County Where it is
Weatherford Parker I-20 west of Fort Worth Granbury Hood On Lake Granbury, a dammed stretch of the Brazos Glen Rose Somervell Paluxy River; Dinosaur Valley State Park Mineral Wells Palo Pinto US-180 between Weatherford and Possum Kingdom Lake Decatur Wise Where US-287 and US-380 cross northwest of the Metroplex Gainesville Cooke Last I-35 town before the Red River and Oklahoma Denison Grayson Below Denison Dam on Lake Texoma; Eisenhower's birthplace Bonham Fannin US-82 east of Sherman; Sam Rayburn's home town Waxahachie Ellis I-35E south of Dallas, granite 1895 courthouse Corsicana Navarro I-45 south of Dallas; first commercial oil field in Texas Greenville Hunt I-30 northeast of Dallas Sulphur Springs Hopkins I-30 dairy country Mount Pleasant Titus I-30 between Sulphur Springs and Texarkana Graham Young US-380 in the Western Cross Timbers Vernon Wilbarger US-287 near the Red River, west of Wichita Falls Quanah Hardeman US-287 at the edge of the Rolling Plains
East Texas and the Piney Woods
Town County Where it is
Marshall Harrison I-20 near the Louisiana line Jefferson Marion Big Cypress Bayou above Caddo Lake; a steamboat port until the 1870s Kilgore Gregg Center of the East Texas Oil Field; replica derricks downtown Henderson Rusk US-79 south of Longview Carthage Panola US-59 near the Sabine River Center Shelby US-96, a courthouse built to an Irish design San Augustine San Augustine On the old El Camino Real de los Tejas Palestine Anderson US-79/US-287; east end of the Texas State Railroad Crockett Houston US-287 between Palestine and Huntsville Huntsville Walker I-45; Sam Houston State University and the 67-ft Sam Houston statue Livingston Polk US-59 above Lake Livingston, next to the Alabama-Coushatta Reservation Woodville Tyler US-190/US-69 in the Big Thicket Jasper Jasper Between Sam Rayburn Reservoir and B.A. Steinhagen Lake Canton Van Zandt I-20 east of Dallas; First Monday Trade Days Athens Henderson SH-31 near Cedar Creek Reservoir
Central Texas and the Hill Country
Town County Where it is
Hillsboro Hill Where I-35 splits into I-35E and I-35W West McLennan I-35 north of Waco; Czech bakeries Salado Bell I-35 on Salado Creek between Temple and Georgetown Belton Bell I-35 below Belton Lake on the Leon River Bastrop Bastrop SH-71 on the Colorado River in the Lost Pines Elgin Bastrop US-290 east of Austin; sausage town Lockhart Caldwell US-183 south of Austin; the state's designated barbecue capital Wimberley Hays Where the Blanco River meets Cypress Creek on RM-12 Dripping Springs Hays US-290 west of Austin at the edge of the Hill Country Johnson City Blanco US-290/US-281 junction; LBJ National Historical Park Marble Falls Burnet US-281 on the Colorado River chain of Highland Lakes Llano Llano SH-71/SH-16 on the Llano River, near Enchanted Rock Bandera Bandera SH-16 on the Medina River; dude-ranch country Boerne Kendall I-10 northwest of San Antonio on Cibolo Creek Brenham Washington US-290 between Austin and Houston; Washington-on-the-Brazos is 20 miles northeast La Grange Fayette SH-71 on the Colorado River; Monument Hill above town Round Top Fayette SH-237 between La Grange and Brenham; twice-yearly antiques fair Gonzales Gonzales US-183/US-90A on the Guadalupe; the "Come and Take It" town
West Texas towns
Town County Where it is
Sweetwater Nolan I-20 west of Abilene, surrounded by wind turbines Snyder Scurry US-84/US-180 north of the Colorado River headwaters Lamesa Dawson US-87 between Lubbock and Midland Monahans Ward I-20 at Monahans Sandhills State Park Pecos Reeves I-20 on the Pecos River, north end of the Permian oil boom Balmorhea Reeves Off I-10 at San Solomon Springs and its spring-fed pool Fort Stockton Pecos I-10 at US-285 and US-385; the last services for 60 miles in three directions Fort Davis Jeff Davis SH-17/SH-118 in the Davis Mountains below McDonald Observatory Marathon Brewster US-90 at US-385, the northern gateway to Big Bend Terlingua Brewster Old quicksilver-mining settlement at the west entrance to Big Bend Presidio Presidio Rio Grande crossing to Ojinaga, at the end of US-67 Van Horn Culberson I-10 at US-90; the turn for Guadalupe Mountains National Park Sierra Blanca Hudspeth Where I-10 and the I-20 corridor traffic converge west of Van Horn Sanderson Terrell US-90 in a canyon between Marathon and Del Rio Ozona Crockett The only town in Crockett County, on I-10 Sonora Sutton I-10 above the Caverns of Sonora
Gulf Coast towns
Town County Where it is
Orange Orange I-10 on the Sabine River at the Louisiana line Anahuac Chambers East side of Trinity Bay on SH-61 La Porte Harris SH-146 at the San Jacinto Battleground and the Battleship Texas Texas City Galveston I-45 refinery port on the west side of Galveston Bay Lake Jackson Brazoria SH-288 near the mouth of the Brazos Freeport Brazoria Where the Brazos River reaches the Gulf Bay City Matagorda SH-35 on the Colorado River above Matagorda Bay Palacios Matagorda Shrimping port on Tres Palacios Bay Port Lavaca Calhoun SH-35 on Lavaca Bay Goliad Goliad US-59/US-183 on the San Antonio River; Presidio La Bahía Rockport Aransas SH-35 on Aransas Bay, next to the whooping crane refuge Port Aransas Nueces North end of Mustang Island, reached by the free ferry Aransas Pass San Patricio SH-35 at the ferry landing across from Port Aransas Kingsville Kleberg US-77 at the King Ranch headquarters Columbus Colorado I-10 where it crosses the Colorado River Sealy Austin I-10 at SH-36 west of Houston
South Texas and border towns
Town County Where it is
Castroville Medina US-90 west of San Antonio; founded by Alsatian settlers Hondo Medina US-90 between Castroville and Uvalde Uvalde Uvalde Where US-90 and US-83 cross on the Leona River Brackettville Kinney US-90 at old Fort Clark, east of Del Rio Pearsall Frio I-35 in the Eagle Ford shale country Cotulla La Salle I-35 on the Nueces River between San Antonio and Laredo Crystal City Zavala US-83 in the Winter Garden irrigation district Carrizo Springs Dimmit US-83/US-277 south of Crystal City Three Rivers Live Oak I-37 where the Frio, Atascosa and Nueces meet Beeville Bee US-59/US-181 between Corpus Christi and Victoria Alice Jim Wells US-281 west of Corpus Christi Falfurrias Brooks US-281 on the King Ranch sand plain Zapata Zapata US-83 on Falcon Reservoir; the old town lies under the lake Rio Grande City Starr US-83 above the Rio Grande, upstream from McAllen Port Isabel Cameron SH-100 at the causeway to South Padre Island Raymondville Willacy US-77 north of Harlingen
City, town or village: no legal difference
Texas law does not separate cities from towns. Every incorporated place is a municipality, and the word in its name is a matter of local preference: Highland Park is a town, Salado was a village until it incorporated, and both have the same powers as a city. What does change with size is the charter. Municipalities under 5,000 residents are general-law cities and can only do what state statute permits. Once a place passes 5,000 it may adopt a home-rule charter by election and write its own rules on annexation, zoning and elections. That threshold is why so many suburbs push hard for the 5,000 mark.
Population also decides what appears on a highway sign. An unincorporated community such as Terlingua, Luckenbach or Winnie has no city limits and no population figure of its own, so it is counted in the county totals instead. Several of the places in the tables above fall into that category and will never show a census number, even though everyone in the region navigates by them.