Wise County, Texas, the Glossary

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1. 83 relations: African Americans, Alaska Natives, Alvord Independent School District, Alvord, Texas, Arlington, Texas, Asian Americans, Aurora, Texas, Balsora, Texas, Bishop Airport (Decatur, Texas), Boonsville, Texas, Boyd Independent School District, Boyd, Texas, Briar, Texas, Bridgeport Independent School District, Bridgeport Municipal Airport, Bridgeport, Texas, Chico Independent School District, Chico, Texas, Cooke County, Texas, Cottondale, Texas, County (United States), County seat, Crafton, Texas, Crime Stoppers, Dallas, Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, Decatur Independent School District, Decatur Municipal Airport, Decatur, Texas, Denton County, Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, Fracking, Governor of Virginia, Great Hanging at Gainesville, Greenwood, Wise County, Texas, Henry A. Wise, Heritage Creek Airstrip, Hispanic and Latino Americans, Jack County, Texas, Johnson County, Texas, Lake Bridgeport, Texas, List of museums in North Texas, Lyndon B. Johnson National Grassland, Montague County, Texas, Multiracial Americans, National Register of Historic Places, National Register of Historic Places listings in Wise County, Texas, Native Americans in the United States, New Fairview, Texas, Newark, Texas, ... Expand index (33 more) »

2. 1856 establishments in Texas

African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

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Alaska Natives

Alaska Natives (also known as Alaskan Indians, Alaskan Natives, Native Alaskans, Indigenous Alaskans, Aboriginal Alaskans or First Alaskans) are the Indigenous peoples of Alaska and include Alaskan Creoles, Iñupiat, Yupik, Aleut, Eyak, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, and a number of Northern Athabaskan cultures.

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Alvord Independent School District

Alvord Independent School District is a public school district based in Alvord, Texas (USA).

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Alvord, Texas

Alvord is a town in Wise County, Texas, United States. Wise County, Texas and Alvord, Texas are Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.

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Arlington, Texas

Arlington is a city in Tarrant County, Texas, United States.

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Asian Americans

Asian Americans are Americans of Asian ancestry (including naturalized Americans who are immigrants from specific regions in Asia and descendants of those immigrants).

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Aurora, Texas

Aurora is a city in Wise County, Texas, United States. Wise County, Texas and Aurora, Texas are Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.

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Balsora, Texas

Balsora is an unincorporated community in Wise County, in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Bishop Airport (Decatur, Texas)

Bishop Airport is a privately owned public-use airport located six nautical miles (6.9 mi, 11.1 km) east of the central business district of Decatur, a city in Wise County, Texas, United States.

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Boonsville, Texas

Boonsville is an unincorporated community in Wise County, Texas, United States.

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Boyd Independent School District

Boyd Independent School District is a public school district based in Boyd, Texas (USA).

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Boyd, Texas

Boyd is a town in Wise County, Texas, United States. Wise County, Texas and Boyd, Texas are Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.

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Briar, Texas

Briar is a census-designated place (CDP) in Parker, Tarrant and Wise counties in the U.S. state of Texas, near the west side of Eagle Mountain Lake.The population was 7,035 in 2020. Wise County, Texas and Briar, Texas are Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.

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Bridgeport Independent School District

Bridgeport Independent School District is a public school district based in Bridgeport, Texas, United States.

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Bridgeport Municipal Airport

Bridgeport Municipal Airport is a public airport near Bridgeport, in Wise County, Texas.

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Bridgeport, Texas

Bridgeport is a city in Wise County, Texas, United States. Wise County, Texas and Bridgeport, Texas are Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.

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Chico Independent School District

Chico Independent School District is a public school district based in Chico, Texas (USA).

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Chico, Texas

Chico is a town in Wise County, Texas, United States. Wise County, Texas and Chico, Texas are Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.

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Cooke County, Texas

Cooke County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. Wise County, Texas and Cooke County, Texas are Texas counties.

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Cottondale, Texas

Cottondale is an unincorporated community in Wise County, in the U.S. state of Texas.

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County (United States)

In the United States, a county or county equivalent is an administrative or political subdivision of a U.S. state or other territories of the United States which consists of a geographic area with specific boundaries and usually some level of governmental authority.

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County seat

A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or civil parish.

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Crafton, Texas

Crafton is a community in northwestern Wise County, Texas, United States.

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Crime Stoppers

Crime Stoppers or Crimestoppers is a community program that assists people in providing anonymous information about criminal activity.

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Dallas

Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people.

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Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex

The Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, officially designated Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, is the most populous metropolitan statistical area in the U.S. state of Texas and the Southern United States, encompassing 11 counties.

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Decatur Independent School District

Decatur Independent School District is a public school district based in Decatur, Texas (USA), northwest of Fort Worth.

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Decatur Municipal Airport

Decatur Municipal Airport is a city-owned public airport two miles (3.7 km) north of Decatur, in Wise County, Texas.

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Decatur, Texas

Decatur is the county seat of Wise County, Texas, United States. Wise County, Texas and Decatur, Texas are Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.

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Denton County, Texas

Denton County is located in the U.S. state of Texas. Wise County, Texas and Denton County, Texas are Texas counties.

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Fort Worth, Texas

Fort Worth is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Tarrant County, covering nearly into Denton, Johnson, Parker, and Wise counties.

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Fracking

Fracking (also known as hydraulic fracturing, fracing, hydrofracturing, or hydrofracking) is a well stimulation technique involving the fracturing of formations in bedrock by a pressurized liquid.

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Governor of Virginia

The governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia serves as the head of government of Virginia for a four-year term.

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Great Hanging at Gainesville

The Great Hanging at Gainesville was the execution by hanging of 41 suspected Unionists (men loyal to the United States) in Gainesville, Texas, in October 1862 during the American Civil War.

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Greenwood, Wise County, Texas

Greenwood is an unincorporated community in Wise County, Texas, United States. Wise County, Texas and Greenwood, Wise County, Texas are Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.

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Henry A. Wise

Henry Alexander Wise (December 3, 1806 – September 12, 1876) was an American attorney, diplomat, politician and slave owner from Virginia.

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Heritage Creek Airstrip

Heritage Creek Airstrip is a privately owned public airport in Rhome, Wise County, Texas, United States, that also serves the city of Decatur, being located approximately southeast of the central business district.

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Hispanic and Latino Americans

Hispanic and Latino Americans (Estadounidenses hispanos y latinos; Estadunidenses hispânicos e latinos) are Americans of full or partial Spanish and/or Latin American background, culture, or family origin.

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Jack County, Texas

Jack County is a county located in the north central part of the U.S. state of Texas. Wise County, Texas and Jack County, Texas are Texas counties.

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Johnson County, Texas

Johnson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. Wise County, Texas and Johnson County, Texas are Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex and Texas counties.

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Lake Bridgeport, Texas

Lake Bridgeport is a city in Wise County, Texas, United States. Wise County, Texas and Lake Bridgeport, Texas are Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.

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List of museums in North Texas

The list of museums in North Texas encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.

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Lyndon B. Johnson National Grassland

Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) National Grassland is a national grassland located in the Great Plains of the northern part of the U.S. state of Texas near Decatur, and within an hour's drive from Fort Worth.

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Montague County, Texas

Montague County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas, established in 1857. Wise County, Texas and Montague County, Texas are Texas counties.

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Multiracial Americans

Multiracial Americans or mixed-race Americans are Americans who have mixed ancestry of two or more races. The term may also include Americans of mixed-race ancestry who self-identify with just one group culturally and socially (cf. the one-drop rule). In the 2020 United States census, 33.8 million individuals or 10.2% of the population, self-identified as multiracial.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value".

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Wise County, Texas

This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Wise County, Texas.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, sometimes called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans, are the Indigenous peoples native to portions of the land that the United States is located on.

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New Fairview, Texas

New Fairview is a city in Wise County, Texas, United States, with a portion of it extending into the neighboring Denton County. Wise County, Texas and new Fairview, Texas are Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.

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Newark, Texas

Newark is a city in Tarrant and Wise counties in the U.S. state of Texas. Wise County, Texas and Newark, Texas are Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.

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Non-Hispanic whites

Non-Hispanic Whites or Non-Latino Whites are White Americans classified by the United States census as "white" and not Hispanic.

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Pacific Islander Americans

Pacific Islander Americans (also colloquially referred to as Islander Americans) are Americans who are of Pacific Islander ancestry (or are descendants of the indigenous peoples of Oceania or of Austronesian descent).

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Paradise Independent School District

Paradise Independent School District is a public school district based in Paradise, Texas, United States.

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Paradise, Texas

Paradise is a city in Wise County, Texas, United States. Wise County, Texas and Paradise, Texas are Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.

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Parker County, Texas

Parker County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. Wise County, Texas and Parker County, Texas are 1856 establishments in Texas, Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, Populated places established in 1856 and Texas counties.

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Pecan Acres, Texas

Pecan Acres is a census-designated place (CDP) in Tarrant and Wise counties in the U.S. state of Texas. Wise County, Texas and Pecan Acres, Texas are Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.

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Phil Ryan (sheriff)

Phillip R. Ryan (born August 10, 1945) is a former Texas Ranger and the three-term Sheriff of Wise County, Texas.

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Population density

Population density (in agriculture: standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area.

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Race and ethnicity in the United States census

In the United States census, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) define a set of self-identified categories of race and ethnicity chosen by residents, with which they most closely identify.

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Republic of Texas

The Republic of Texas (República de Tejas), or simply Texas, was a breakaway state in North America that existed from March 2, 1836, to February 19, 1846.

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Rhome Meadows Airport

Rhome Meadows Airport is a privately owned public airport in Rhome, Wise County, Texas, United States, located approximately north of the central business district.

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Rhome, Texas

Rhome is a city in Wise County, Texas, United States. Wise County, Texas and Rhome, Texas are Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.

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Romanesque Revival architecture

Romanesque Revival (or Neo-Romanesque) is a style of building employed beginning in the mid-19th century inspired by the 11th- and 12th-century Romanesque architecture.

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Runaway Bay, Texas

Runaway Bay is a city in Wise County, Texas, lying at the Southern end of Lake Bridgeport. Wise County, Texas and Runaway Bay, Texas are Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.

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Same-sex relationship

A same-sex relationship is a romantic or sexual relationship between people of the same sex.

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Slidell Independent School District

Slidell Independent School District is a public school district based in the community of Slidell, Texas (USA).

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Slidell, Texas

Slidell is an unincorporated community in Wise County, Texas, United States. Wise County, Texas and Slidell, Texas are Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.

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Tarrant County, Texas

Tarrant County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas with a 2020 U.S. census population of 2,110,640, making it the third-most populous county in Texas and the 15th-most populous in the United States. Wise County, Texas and Tarrant County, Texas are Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex and Texas counties.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States.

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Texas State Highway 101

State Highway 101 (SH 101) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Texas that runs from Bowie to Bridgeport.

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Texas State Highway 114

State Highway 114 (SH 114) is a state highway that runs from the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex westward across Texas to the New Mexico state line, where it becomes New Mexico State Road 114, which eventually ends at Elida, New Mexico at US 70 / NM 330.

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Texas State Highway 199

State Highway 199 is a northwest-to-southeast state route that runs from U.S. Route 380/State Highway 59 in Jacksboro to Interstate 30/U.S. Route 377 in Fort Worth.

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U.S. Route 287 in Texas

U.S. Highway 287 (US 287) in the U.S. state of Texas is a major U.S. Highway that begins on the Gulf Coast in Port Arthur and heads north through Fort Worth, northwest to Childress, Clarendon, Wichita Falls, and Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle and into Oklahoma near Kerrick.

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U.S. Route 380

U.S. Route 380 (US 380) is an east–west United States highway.

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U.S. Route 81 in Texas

U.S. Highway 81 (US 81) is a U.S. Highway that begins at an interchange with Interstate 35W/US 287 (I-35W/US 287) in northern Fort Worth in Texas.

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U.S. state

In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50.

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United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau (USCB), officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.

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University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas.

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Victory Christian Academy

Victory Christian Academy is a private, Christian elementary and high school in Chula Vista, California.

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Weatherford College

Weatherford College (WC; officially Weatherford College of the Parker County Junior College District) is a public community college in Weatherford, Texas, with branch campuses in nearby Wise County, and Granbury.

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Williams Institute

The Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law and Public Policy, usually shortened to Williams Institute, is a public policy research institute based at the UCLA School of Law focused on sexual orientation and gender identities issues.

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2010 United States census

The 2010 United States census was the 23rd United States census.

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2020 United States census

The 2020 United States census was the 24th decennial United States census.

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See also

1856 establishments in Texas

• Atascosa County, Texas
• Bandera County, Texas
• Comanche County, Texas
• Encinal County, Texas
• Erath County, Texas
• First Presbyterian Church of Dallas
• Kerr County, Texas
• Kerrville, Texas
• Lampasas County, Texas
• Live Oak County, Texas
• Llano County, Texas
• Old Camp Verde
• Old Center, Texas
• Parker County, Texas
• San Saba County, Texas
• Soule University
• Stephenville, Texas
• Texas School for the Deaf
• United States Camel Corps
• Uvalde County, Texas
• Wise County, Texas

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wise_County,_Texas

Also known as Wise County, TX.

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