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Longview is the county seat of Gregg County in East Texas, strategically located where Interstate 20 and U.S. highways 80 and 259 converge near the Sabine River, with a 2020 population of 81,638 and a 2024 estimate of 83,668. Founded in 1870 when O.H. Methvin sold land to the Texas and Pacific Railway for the railroad to build through the area, the town was named "Longview" by railroad surveyors and incorporated on June 1871 as Gregg County's first town following the county's creation in 1873. Today, Longview serves as a major regional hub with major employers including Eastman Chemical, Trinity Rail Group, AAON Coil Products, Komatsu Mining, Dollar General, and Old Navy/GAP, and is home to educational institutions like LeTourneau University and Kilgore College. Historically significant events include the May 1894 robbery of the First National Bank by Bill Dalton's gang and the July 1919 race riot that resulted in violence and destruction in the town's black section. The Big Inch pipeline, one of the world's longest petroleum pipelines at its 1942 construction, transported over 261 million barrels of crude oil to the East Coast from 1943 to 1945. Tyler is the county seat of Smith County in Northeast Texas and the 38th most populous city in Texas with a 2020 population of 105,995, serving as the principal city of the 198th largest metropolitan statistical area in the United States with 233,479 residents. Named after President John Tyler, the city was legally established by the Texas legislature on April 11, 1846, incorporated on January 29, 1850, and served as headquarters for the Confederate Trans-Mississippi Department's Tyler Ordnance Works during the Civil War. Tyler earned its nickname as the "Rose Capital of America" through its historic rose production and cultivation, and now hosts the nation's largest rose garden - a 14-acre public complex featuring over 38,000 rose bushes of 500 varieties and the annual Texas Rose Festival attracting thousands of tourists each October. The city originated the international Adopt-a-Highway movement in 1985 when a local Civitan International chapter adopted a two-mile stretch of U.S. Route 69, marked by brown road signs identifying it as "First Adopt-A-Highway in the World." As a major regional hub for Northeast Texas and Smith County, Tyler is home to the University of Texas at Tyler, Brookshire Grocery Company headquarters, Caldwell Zoo, and serves over 20,000 higher-education students across multiple educational and medical institutions. Texarkana is a twin city straddling the Texas-Arkansas border in Bowie County, Texas, approximately 180 miles northeast of Dallas in the Ark-La-Tex region, with a 2020 population of 36,193. The city was founded following railroad expansion in the 1870s, with the Texas and Pacific Railroad selling the first town lots on December 8, 1873, and the Red River Bridge opening on March 20, 1874, enabling direct rail service to St. Louis, Missouri. The name Texarkana is a portmanteau of Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana, reportedly coined by railroad surveyor Col. Gus Knobel in the mid-19th century. Located at the junction of Interstate 30 and US highways 59, 67, 71, and 82, the city covers 29.5 square miles and experiences a humid subtropical climate with recorded temperature extremes ranging from -6 °F in 1989 to 117 °F in 1936. The Texarkana metropolitan area, encompassing Bowie County, Texas, and Miller County, Arkansas, had a combined population of 149,482 at the 2020 census.