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Wise County
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county in Texas, United States
Wise County is a county located in Texas in the United States. It is notable as part of Texas's county system of local government and administration.
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Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Texas
- Named after
- Henry Alexander Wise
- Seat
- Decatur
- Largest city
- Decatur
- Total
- 923 sq mi (2,390 km )
- Land
- 904 sq mi (2,340 km )
- Water
- 18 sq mi (47 km ) 2.0%
- Estimate 2025
- 83,778
- Density
- 75.9/sq mi (29.3/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional districts
- 13th , 26th
- Website
- www .co .wise .tx .us
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Henry A. Wise
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Texas
- Contains
- Decatur
- Capital
- Decatur
- Population
- 68632
- Area
- 2391
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Jack County
- Official website
- www.co.wise.tx.us
- Image
- Wise courthouse.jpg
- Households
- 22254
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- Commons category
- Wise County, Texas
- inception
- 1856-01-23
- topic's main category
- Category:Wise County, Texas
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Wise County, Texas
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Wise County, Texas
- different from
- Wise County
- water as percent of area
- 2
- native label
- Wise County
- per capita income
- 30693
- located in the statistical territorial entity
- Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex
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Encyclopedic overview
Wise County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 68,632. Its county seat is Decatur. Wise County is part of the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan statistical area. Its Wise Eyes crime-watch program, eventually adopted by mostly rural counties in several states, was started in 1993 by then-Sheriff Phil Ryan.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wise County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.