Cornudas, Texas,with a population of less than 20, hosts a chili cook-off hoping to draw over 1,000 visitors on September 28, 2024. The railroad changed everything. Long before the open plains ...

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Local leaders and rural revitalization experts say Texas’ smallest towns can survive — despite a shift to urban and suburban counties — but it will take investments.

Texas has the second-largest population in the U.S., and it's also one of the fastest-growing states.

Texas led the nation in population growth again in 2024, according to new data released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau, marking at least the 14th year in a row that Texas has added more ...