Today Texas boasts the second highest population of all the United States. Of course, 150 years ago that wasn’t the case. In the 1870s The Lone Star State was still unsettled and still the “Wild West.”
After The Civil War, many families moved west, with hundreds of thousands settling down in present-day Texas.
While today Houston and Dallas are two of the most populated cities in the country, back then neither were even the most populated in Texas. Back then the largest city in Texas only ranked #112 among all cities nationwide in 1870.
The Biggest Cities In Texas 150 Years Ago
Today, Texas’s population in 2024 is estimated to be around 30,976,800, and with a growth rate of 1.80%, Texas ranks third nationally for population increase…