Today, Texas boasts the second-highest population in the United States. Of course, 150 years ago, that was not the case. In the 1870s, the Lone Star State was still mostly unsettled and still considered the “Wild West.”
After the Civil War, many American families began moving west, with hundreds of thousands of them choosing to settle down in present-day Texas.
The Biggest Cities In Texas In 1875
While today, Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth are two of the fastest-growing and most populated cities in the country, back then, neither was even the most populated in Texas. The largest city in Texas only ranked #112 among all cities nationwide in 1870.
Today, Texas’s population is estimated to be around 30,976,800, and with a growth rate of 1.80%, Texas ranks third nationally for population increase.
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One hundred and fifty years ago, things were quite different here; however, Texas was still booming. The population in the 1870s of 818,579 was a 35.5% increase from the 1860s. That’s major growth…