, Texas, USA
1895 - Texas

Texas, téx'as (Sp. pron. ta'hās, said to signify "friends" in the Caddo language, and derived immediately from the Tachies, a tribe of Indians whose descendants, called Ionies or Inies, now live in the Indian Territory), the south westernmost of the Gulf states of the American Union, is bounded N. by New Mexico, Oklahoma, the Indian Territory, and Arkansas, E. by Oklahoma, the Indian Territory, Arkansas, and Louisiana, S.E. by the Gulf of Mexico, S.W. by Mexico, and W. by Mexico and New Mexico. From New Mexico it is divided by the line of 32° N. lat. eastward from the Rio Grande to lon. 103° W., and thence north ward by that meridian. Its northernmost limit is 36° 30' N. lat. A tract of land constituting Greer co., and at resent regarded as a part of the territory of Oklahoma, has been for a long time claimed by Texas. The United States disputes the claim, but the title has not yet been determined. From lon. 100° W. eastward the Red River is the northern limit. The eastern line of the state follows the meridian of 94° W. lon. southward until the river Sabine is reached, from which point to the Gulf it follows that stream. The Rio Grande divides it from Mexico. Area, 265,780 square miles. This area very far exceeds that of any other state, being about six times that of Pennsylvania. It extends farther S. than any state except Florida...

Population.—In 1850 there were 212,592 inhabitants; in 1860, 604,215; in 1870, 818,579; in 1880, 1,591,749; in 1890, 2,235,523. The majority of the white inhabitants are English-speaking people, immigrants from the different Southern states, or the descendants of such immigrants; but there are many Spanish-Americans also, especially southwestward. Large numbers of Germans and many English and French have settled in the S.W. central region.

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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