By 1921-22, Texas had a whopping 7,369 common school districts — two-thirds of them one-room schools — in addition to 858 independent school districts found in the state’s cities and towns.

4. Northeast Texas. You might wonder why we didn’t simply roll Northeast Texas into the North Texas region. Or why the “Upper East Texas” moniker never really caught on.

The map below shows which Texas counties are growing the fastest: According to this data, the five fastest-growing counties between 2020 and 2023 were: Kaufman County—26 percent increase in ...