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Greenville
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city in Hunt County, Texas, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Texas
- County
- Hunt
- Incorporated
- April 13, 1852 (174 years ago) ( 1852-04-13 )
- Named after
- Thomas J. Green
- Type
- Council-Manager
- City council
- Mayor Jerry Ransom , Place 1 Ramon Rodriguez , Place 2 Thomas J Goss , Place 3 Philip Spencer , Place 4 Tim Kruse , Place 5 Ben Collins , Place 6 Kenneth Freeman
- City manager
- Summer Spurlock
- Total
- 33.11 sq mi (85.75 km )
- Land
- 32.29 sq mi (83.62 km )
- Water
- 0.82 sq mi (2.12 km )
- Elevation
- 564 ft (172 m)
- Estimate 2025
- 37,069
- Density
- 872.3/sq mi (336.8/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( Central (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 (CDT)
- Zip codes
- 75401–75404
- Area codes
- 903, 430
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county seat
- Official name
- Greenville
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Hunt County
- Population
- 28164
- Area
- 86.644595
- Elevation
- 165
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Capital of
- Hunt County
- Official website
- www.ci.greenville.tx.us
- Image
- Greenville August 2015 28 (Lee Street).jpg
- Households
- 10454
- Dialing code
- 430
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- Commons category
- Greenville, Texas
- postal code
- 75404
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- Greenville, Texas
- inception
- 1846-01-01
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Greenville, Texas
- P8168
- Miss Marple
- water as percent of area
- 2.4628
- different from
- Greenville
- per capita income
- 24442
- native label
- Greenville
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Encyclopedic overview
Greenville ( locally /ˈɡriːnvəl/ GREEN-vəl) is the county seat of and the most populous city in Hunt County, Texas, United States. As the "Gateway to East Texas", Greenville is located in Northeast Texas approximately 50 miles (80 km) northeast of Dallas and 30 miles (48 km) west of Sulphur Springs. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 28,164.
Greenville was named for Thomas J. Green, a significant contributor to the founding of the Texas Republic.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Greenville” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.