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Tyler
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city in and county seat of Smith County, Texas, United States
Tyler is a city in Texas that serves as the county seat of Smith County, meaning it's the main governmental center for the county. It's a significant urban hub in the eastern part of the state where county government operations and services are based.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county seat
- Named after
- John Tyler
- Official name
- Tyler
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Smith County
- Official language
- English language
- Population
- 105995
- Area
- 140.860239
- Elevation
- 165
- Capital of
- Smith County
- Official website
- www.cityoftyler.org
- Image
- Tyler TX Montage.jpg
- Households
- 37114
- Significant event
- American Civil War
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- category for people born here
- Q19007863
- twinned administrative body
- Jelenia Góra
- Commons category
- Tyler, Texas
- topic's main category
- Category:Tyler, Texas
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Tyler, Texas
- inception
- 1846-00-00
- postal code
- 75799
- different from
- Tyler County
- P8168
- Bais
- water as percent of area
- 0.9712
- native label
- Tyler
- per capita income
- 29705
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Encyclopedic overview
Tyler is a city in and the county seat of Smith County, Texas, United States. As of 2020, the population is 105,995. Tyler is the 38th most populous city in Texas (as well as the most populous in Northeast Texas) and 289th in the United States. It is the principal city of the Tyler metropolitan statistical area, which is the 198th most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. and 16th in Texas after Waco and the College Station–Bryan areas, with a population of 233,479 in 2020. The city is named for John Tyler, the tenth President of the United States.
In 1985, the international Adopt-a-Highway movement began in Tyler. After appeals from local Texas Department of Transportation officials, the local Civitan International chapter adopted a two-mile (three kilometer) stretch of U.S. Route 69 to maintain. Drivers and other motorists traveling on this segment of U.S. 69 (between Tyler and nearby Lindale) will see brown road signs that read "First Adopt-A-Highway in the World".
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