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MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT
Home-Rule Cities
The 119 home-rule cities of Texas are listed
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Municipalities, Austin, May 1, 1953.
1950 Present Form E a .
City- Census of Government o
*. "Abilene 45,510
Alice 16,449
Amarillo 74,246
Anson 2,708
Aransas Pass 5,396
Arlington 7,692
Austin 132,459
Baytown 22,983
Beaumont 94,014
Beeville 9,348
Bellaire 10,173
Beiton 6,246
Big Spring 17,286
Bonham 7,049
Borger 18,059
Brenham 6,941
Brownsville 36,066
Brownwood 20,181
Bryan 18,102
Burkburnett 4,555
Carthage 4,750
Childress 7,619
Cisco 5,230
Cleburne 12,905
Coleman 6,530
College Station 7,925
Colorado City 6,774
Corpus
Christi 108,287
Corsicana 19,211
Cuero 7,498
LDallas \ 434,462
De Leon 2,241
Del Rio 14,211
Denison 17,504
Denton 21,372
Eagle Pass 7,276
Eastland 3,626
Edinburg 12,383
Electra 4,970
E1 Paso 130,485
Ennis 7,815
Fort Worth 278,778
Freeport 6,012
Gainesville 11,246
Galena Park 7,186
Galveston 66,568
Garland 10,571
Gorman 1,317
Graham 6,742
Grand Prairie 14,594
Greenville 14,727
Harlingen 23,229
Henderson - 6,833
Hereford 5.207
Hillsboro 8,363
Houston 596.163
tIrving 2,621
Jacksonville 8,607
Kerrville 7,691
Killeen 7,045
Kingsville 16,898
Lamesa 10.704
La Porte 4,429
Laredo 51,910
Levelland 8,264
Longview 24,502
Lubbock 71,747
Lufkin 15,135
McAllen 20,067
McKinney 10,560
Marlin 7,099
Marshall 22.327
Mercedes 10,081Commission-Mgr.
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Mexia 6,627
Midland 21,713
Mineral Wells 7,801
Mission 10,765
Mt. Pleasant 6,342
Nacogdoches 12,327
Navasota 5,188
New Braun-
fels 12,210
Odessa 29,495
Orange 21,174
Palestine 12,503
Pampa 16,583
Paris 21,643
Pasadena 22,483
Pharr 8,690
Plainview 14,044
Port Arthur 57,530
Quanah 4,589
Ranger 3,989
River Oaks 7,097
Robstown 7,278
San Angelo 52,093
San Antonio 408,442
San Bemto 13,271
Sherman 20,150
Slaton 5,036
Sulphur
Springs 8,991
Sweetwater 13,619
Snyder 12,010
Stamford 5,819
Taylor 9,071
Temple 25,467
Terrell 11,544
Texarkana 24,753
Texas City 16,620
Tyler 38,968
Uvalde 8,674
Vernon 12,651
Victoria 16,126
Waco 84,706
Waxahachie 11,204
Weatherford 8,093
Weslaco 7,514
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Wichita Falls 68,042
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Commission-Mgr. 19q15 1915*First charter under home-rule amendment (Art.
XI, Sec. 5) ratified Nov. 5, 1912.
tCharter granted on special census subsequent to
1950. 1953 Population, 20,000. DlsTx
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Established 1876
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