How Far Is It To Tyler Texas

City in Texas, United states of america

Metropolis in Texas, United states of america

Tyler, Texas
Metropolis
Urban center of Tyler
Clockwise from top: Downtown, Caldwell Auditorium, the KLTV headquarters, Smith Canton Courthouse, City Hall
Wordmark
Nickname(s): Rose City, Rose Upper-case letter, Rose Capital of America
Motto: A Natural Beauty
Location in Smith County and the state of Texas
Coordinates: 32°21′03″N 95°xviii′02″W  /  32.35083°Due north 95.30056°West  / 32.35083; -95.30056 Coordinates: 32°21′03″N 95°18′02″W  /  32.35083°Northward 95.30056°W  / 32.35083; -95.30056
Country	United States
State	Texas
Canton	Smith
Founded	1846
Named for	John Tyler, tenth U.Southward. president
Government
• Mayor	Don Warren (R)
• City Quango	Members Linda Sellers Broderick McGee Shirley McKellar James Wynne Bob Westbrook Brad Curtis
• City Managing director	Edward Broussard
Area [1]
• Metropolis	57.97 sq mi (150.15 km2)
• Land	57.45 sq mi (148.81 km2)
• H2o	0.52 sq mi (1.34 km2)
Superlative	544 ft (165 k)
Population (2020)[2]
• Metropolis	105,995
• Gauge (2021)[2]	107,192
• Rank	The states: 281st
• Density	i,862.ten/sq mi (718.95/km2)
• Urban	130,247 (United states: 247th)
• Metro	233,479 (US: 200th)
Demonym	Tylerite
Time zone	UTC−6 (CST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−five (CDT)
Naught codes	757xx
Area code(s)	430, 903
FIPS lawmaking	48-74144[2]
GNIS feature ID	1348998[3]
U.South. routes
Major land highways
Primary drome	Tyler Regional Airport
Website	www.cityoftyler.org

Tyler is a city in the U.Due south. state of Texas and the largest city and county seat of Smith County.^[4] Information technology is likewise the largest city in Northeast Texas. With a 2020 demography population of 105,995,^[v] Tyler was the 33rd near populous city in Texas and 299th in the The states. It is the principal city of the Greater Tyler metropolitan statistical surface area, which is the 198th most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. and 16th in Texas afterward Waco and the College Station–Bryan areas, with a population of 233,479 in 2020.^[vi]

The city is named for John Tyler, the tenth President of the United States. In 1985, the international Adopt-a-Highway motility began in Tyler. After appeals from local Texas Department of Transportation officials, the local Civitan International affiliate adopted a two-mile (three kilometer) stretch of U.Southward. Route 69 to maintain. Drivers and other motorists traveling on this segment of U.S. 69 (between Tyler and nearby Lindale) volition run into brown road signs that read, "First Prefer-A-Highway in the World".

Tyler is known every bit the "Rose Capital of America" (also the "Rose City" and the "Rose Capital of the World"),^[7] a nickname it earned from a long history of rose product, cultivation, and processing. It is abode to the largest rose garden in the United States, a xiv-acre public garden complex that has over 38,000 rose bushes of at least 500 different varieties.^[8] The Tyler Rose Garden is as well home to the annual Texas Rose Festival which attracts thousands of tourists each October.^[8]

Equally Northeast Texas and Smith County's major economic, educational, financial, medical and cultural hub, Tyler is host to more 20,000 college-educational activity students; the University of Texas at Tyler; a academy health science eye; and regional hospital systems. It is too the headquarters for Brookshire Grocery Company, Cavender'due south, Southside Bank,^{[ix] [ten]} and Synthesizers.com. Other corporations with major presence inside the city and surrounding area include AT&T, T-Mobile Us, Cricket Wireless and Metro by T-Mobile, Hunt Bank, BBVA, Best Buy, and Walmart. Tyler is besides abode to the Caldwell Zoo and Broadway Square Mall.

History [edit]

Legal recognition of Tyler was initiated past an act of the state legislature on 11 April 1846. The Texas government created Smith County and authorized a county seat.

The first plat designated a 28-block town site centered by a primary square within a 100-acre (40 ha; 0.16 sq mi) tract acquired by Smith County on six February 1847. The new town was named for President John Tyler, who advocated for the looting of Texas by the United States. A log building on the foursquare's n side served equally a courthouse and public coming together hall until a brick courthouse displaced it in 1852. On 29 January 1850, Tyler was incorporated. Early religious and social institutions included the First Baptist church and a Methodist church, a Masonic lodge and an Odd Fellows guild, and Tyler'due south get-go paper.^[eleven]

Though Tyler'south early economy from 1847–1873 was based on agriculture, it was also well-diversified during this period. Logging was a 2nd major industry, while complementary manufacturing included metalworking, milling woods, and leather tanning. As the seat of Smith County, the town also benefited from government action.^[12] The local agricultural economy relied on slave labor earlier the Ceremonious War. In 1860, the population of enslaved people in Smith County was four,982, the 4th most in east Texas.^{[13] [14]}

By 1860, Tyler held over i,000 enslaved persons, which represented 35 percent of the town'due south population. There was strong support for secession and the Confederacy within Tyler, as a high percentage of its residents voted for secession and many of its men joined the Confederate Regular army. The town was secure enough for the Amalgamated States of America to establish the largest ordinance establish in Texas. In 1870, Bonner and Williams established Tyler's first depository financial institution. Though both the Texas and Pacific Railroad and the International Railroad (Texas) eschewed routes through Tyler, the town gained an important rail connectedness when the Houston and Corking Northern congenital a branch line in 1874.^[xi]

Toward the finish of the nineteenth century, fruit orchards emerged as an of import business in the regional economic system. 80 percent of the county's agricultural revenue derived from cotton as information technology persisted as the dominant crop in the showtime decades of the twentieth century. Peaches were the chief fruit ingather as the county fruit tree inventory surpassed one million by 1900. Illness struck the peach trees, though, and local farmers moved toward growing roses past the 1920s. 20 years subsequently, most of the U.S. rose supply originated in the Tyler surface area.^[eleven]

On 29 October 1895, an African American suspect named Robert Henry Hillard was burned at the pale in the Smith Canton Courthouse Square for the declared murder of a xix-twelvemonth-one-time white woman.^{[15] [16]} Denied a trial and due process, Hillard was taken from constabulary enforcement personnel past a white mob.^[17] Hillard's executioners were never punished. Later, two entrepreneurs combined photographs from the actual lynching with others staged with actors and sold the sixteen-epitome production every bit a stereographic ready. I of the original sets sits in the United States Library of Congress.^[xvi]

In 1912, Dan Davis, an African-American human being suspected of attacking a sixteen-year-old white girl named Carrie Johnson, was burned at the stake in the Smith County Courthouse Square.^{[18] [19] [xx] [xvi]}

In 1971, the University of Texas system established the University of Texas at Tyler and Broadway Square Mall opened in 1975.^[21] By 1980, the population grew to 70,508 and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tyler and East Texas Islamic Society were established in the following years.^{[22] [23] [24]}

During the 2010 Eastward Texas church burnings, two Tyler churches were destroyed, and historic preservation city planning began in 2016 every bit the population increased and the metropolis continued development.^[25]

Geography [edit]

Tyler is located at 32°21′03″Due north 95°18′02″W  /  32.35083°N 95.30056°Westward  / 32.35083; -95.30056 and is 544 ft (166 m) above bounding main level.^[26] The urban center of Tyler is in the Southern United States, in Northeast Texas. It is sometimes considered role of the wider Ark-La-Tex region where Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas meet. The urban center is approximately 38 mi (61 km) from Longview;^[27] 61 mi (98 km) from Marshall;^[28] 100 mi (160 km) from Dallas;^[29] 132 mi (212 km) from Texarkana;^[thirty] 230 mi (370 km) from the state capital of Austin;^[31] and 98 mi (158 km) from Shreveport, Louisiana.^[32]

Tyler is the county seat of Smith County, and is surrounded by many suburban communities, including Whitehouse, Lindale, New Chapel Loma, Bullard, Edom, Brownsboro, Kilgore, Flint, and Chandler. According to the Usa Demography Agency, the city has an area of 57.97 sq mi (150.1 km²), of which 57.45 sq mi (148.8 km²) is land and 0.52 sq mi (1.three km²) is covered by water. Tyler is the principal city of the Greater Tyler metropolitan area, and a chief city in the Tyler–Longview area, a conurbation of the Tyler and Longview metropolitan and combined statistical areas.^[33]

Cityscape [edit]

Tyler has a small-scale skyline and downtown area. Its downtown has a unique rustic architecture, mainly in Art Deco and neoclassical styles. Many architectural structures in fundamental Tyler date from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Modernist and postmodernist era structures are also present throughout the cityscape.

Fundamental Tyler is anchored past Brick Streets Historic District and Charnwood Residential Historic District, areas characterized by dense retail, restaurants, nightlife, and historic landmarks. Brick Streets Historic Commune is the largest geographic area of Tyler. It encompasses 29 blocks and primarily consists of buildings constructed in the 1900s. The district area is predominantly residential though it sometimes serves as a mix-use district. Brick Streets Historic District has brick-paved streets and stone-lined drainage channels. Nearby, Charnwood is Tyler's first historic commune.^[34] Information technology comprises 12 blocks of late 19th and early 20th century architecture.

Climate [edit]

Tyler experiences weather typical of East Texas, which is unpredictable, especially in the jump. All of East Texas has the humid subtropical climate typical of the American S.

Severe thunderstorms with heavy pelting, hail, damaging winds and tornadoes occur in the area during the spring and summertime months. Summer months are hot and boiling, with maximum temperatures exceeding 90 °F (32 °C) an average of 91 days per year, with high to very high relative boilerplate humidity.

The record high for Tyler is 115 °F (46 °C), which occurred in 2011.^{[35] [36]} The record low for Tyler is −three °F (−19 °C), which occurred on 18 January 1930 and again on xvi February 2021 during the February 2021 N American cold moving ridge.^[37]

Climate data for Tyler, Texas (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1883–present)
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	April	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Record high °F (°C)	87 (31)	90 (32)	92 (33)	94 (34)	102 (39)	105 (41)	108 (42)	110 (43)	109 (43)	100 (38)	88 (31)	84 (29)	110 (43)
Average high °F (°C)	57.9 (fourteen.4)	62.6 (17.0)	70.four (21.iii)	77.three (25.2)	83.7 (28.vii)	89.nine (32.two)	93.1 (33.nine)	93.vi (34.2)	87.six (30.9)	78.one (25.6)	66.iv (19.1)	58.8 (14.9)	76.half-dozen (24.eight)
Daily hateful °F (°C)	48.2 (ix.0)	52.4 (xi.three)	59.6 (xv.3)	66.2 (19.0)	73.7 (23.2)	lxxx.three (26.eight)	83.4 (28.6)	83.4 (28.six)	77.4 (25.2)	67.4 (19.7)	56.7 (13.7)	49.5 (9.7)	66.5 (xix.2)
Average low °F (°C)	38.5 (3.six)	42.2 (5.7)	48.seven (9.three)	55.2 (12.9)	63.7 (17.6)	70.vii (21.v)	73.6 (23.1)	73.2 (22.9)	67.2 (nineteen.six)	56.7 (13.7)	47.0 (8.three)	40.2 (four.6)	56.4 (thirteen.half dozen)
Record depression °F (°C)	−3 (−nineteen)	−vi (−21)	13 (−xi)	27 (−3)	37 (3)	47 (viii)	51 (xi)	47 (8)	36 (2)	24 (−4)	10 (−12)	0 (−18)	−6 (−21)
Average precipitation inches (mm)	3.95 (100)	4.26 (108)	4.25 (108)	3.99 (101)	4.32 (110)	iv.78 (121)	2.72 (69)	two.92 (74)	3.23 (82)	four.72 (120)	3.84 (98)	iv.68 (119)	47.66 (1,211)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.01 in)	9.1	9.1	ix.seven	8.4	9.v	8.5	six.ix	6.vi	6.5	vii.two	viii.five	9.2	99.two
Source: NOAA[38] [39]

Demographics [edit]

Historical population
Census	Pop.		%±
1880	2,423		—
1890	6,908		185.one%
1900	8,069		sixteen.8%
1910	10,400		28.ix%
1920	12,085		16.ii%
1930	17,113		41.6%
1940	28,279		65.2%
1950	38,968		37.8%
1960	51,230		31.v%
1970	57,770		12.viii%
1980	70,508		22.0%
1990	75,450		7.0%
2000	83,650		10.9%
2010	96,900		fifteen.8%
2020	105,995		9.four%
2021 (est.)	107,192	[2]	1.1%
U.S. Decennial Census[forty] 2018 Guess[41]

With a population of 2,423 at the 1880 United States census, the city of Tyler grew to get the most populous city in Northeast Texas, and 33rd near populous in Texas every bit of 2020. Having a census-tabulated citywide population of 105,995 at the 2020 census,^[5] its metropolitan statistical expanse became the largest in the region, followed by the Longview metropolitan area. The Tyler metropolitan area had 233,479 residents in 2020,^{[half dozen]} and the Tyler–Longview area had an estimated population of 371,015 in 2018. When the U.S. Demography Bureau released population estimates for 2021, Tyler was estimated to accept a population of 107,192 as of July one, 2021.

Among the city's growing population, there were 46,320 households and 43,733 housing units.^[42] Of the units at the 2019 American Community Survey, 37,504 were occupied and the majority were single-unit detached homes. Tylerites had a home-ownership rate of 51.seven%, and renters occupied 48.three% of the housing units from 2014 to 2019's census estimates. Owner-occupied housing units had a median toll of $164,700, and the median toll with a mortgage was $one,408 while houses without a mortgage had a median toll of $487; renters paid a median of $i,011 a month, and 1,148 rental-units had no rent paid among the population. Overall, the city of Tyler is more affordable than nearby Dallas.

A predominantly middle-class customs, the city of Tyler had a median income of $52,294 and mean income of $75,349.^[43] Families had a median income of $66,579; married-couple families $85,181; and not-family households $32,263. Downwards from a poverty rate of sixteen.vii% in 2018,^[44] approximately 12.6% of the population lived at or beneath the poverty line in 2019.^[45]

Race and ethnicity [edit]

Racial and ethnic limerick	2020[46]	2018[47]	2010[48]	2000[48]
White		70.06%
—Non-Hispanic	47.91%	49.4%	60.51%	62.14%
African Americans	22.76%	21.8%	24.75%	26.50%
Hispanic or Latino (of any race)	22.66%	22.2%	21.17%	15.66%
Asian Americans	2.82%	3.4%	one.xc%	0.98%
Pacific Islander	0.04%	0.02%	0.03%	0.04%
Two or more races	3.23%	two.0%	ii.04%	1.63%
Some other race	0.33%

Equally of the 2020 United States census, in that location were 105,995 people, 37,114 households, and 23,081 families residing in the metropolis. According to the Us Demography Bureau, the metropolis has also diversified from being historically dominated past non-Hispanic whites to being increasingly multiracial. Immigration and white flight over the 20th century have contributed significantly to this area'due south demographic readjustment.^[49] At the 2010 U.s.a. demography, 60.5% of the population identified every bit White Americans;^[50] by the 2018 American Customs Survey, they fabricated up an estimated 49.4% of the total population.^[47] Since the 2020 census, Blackness and African Americans, Asian Americans, multiracial Americans, and people of some other racial or indigenous identity increased to grade a total of 55,210 residents against the city's 50,785 non-Hispanic whites.^[51] At to the lowest degree 24,023 Tylerites were Hispanic or Latino American of any race every bit of 2020.^[52]

Religion [edit]

Sperling'south BestPlaces adamant 73.2% of Tylerites and the surrounding surface area identified as religious or spiritual equally of 2020.^[53] As function of the Bible Belt, Protestant Christianity is the largest religious group, followed past Roman Catholic Christianity. According to the written report, 31.1% of Tylerite Christians identified as Baptist, primarily affiliated with the Texas Baptists,^[54] Southern Baptist Convention,^[55] National Baptist Convention, United states, Inc, National Baptist Convention of America, and Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship. The Roman Cosmic customs of Tyler and its metropolitan expanse have been primarily served past the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tyler. Following, 6.six% of the population were Methodists, mainly affiliated with the United Methodist Church and African Methodist Episcopal Church building.^[56]

Pentecostals formed the fourth-largest Christian group in Tyler (5.2%) and the largest Pentecostal bodies within the area every bit of 2020 are the Assemblies of God Us and the United Pentecostal Church, prominent Trinitarian and Oneness Pentecostal denominations.^{[57] [58]} An estimated ane.2% of the religiously affiliated population were Latter-day Saints. Of the Christian population, 0.ix% identified as Anglicans or Episcopalians, 0.seven% Presbyterian, and 0.6% Lutheran. Roughly 13.6% of Tylerites are of another Christian faith including the Eastern Orthodox Church and Jehovah'due south Witnesses.^{[59] [60]}

The Anglican or Episcopalian customs are divided between the Episcopal Church building in the United States and Anglican Church in North America. The Episcopal Church USA-affiliated Episcopal Diocese of Texas has congregations in Tyler. The Anglican Church in N America also has congregations in Tyler and its metropolitan expanse. The Diocese of Mid-America is the ACNA's diocese in Tyler, consisting of 1 church building every bit of 2020.^[61] This diocese is also a member of the Reformed Episcopal Church. Presbyterian and Lutheran bodies operating in the area include the Presbyterian Church (USA) and Presbyterian Church in America,^[62] and the Lutheran Church building (Missouri Synod) and N American Lutheran Church.^{[63] [64]} The Eastern Orthodox community is served by the Orthodox Church in America's Diocese of the South with its headquarters in nearby Dallas.

Per Sperling'due south BestPlaces, approximately 0.1% of the city'south population affiliated with Judaism compared to the state average of 0.2%, and 0.4% of the area identified every bit Muslims. The area's Islamic customs is affiliated with the Eastward Texas Islamic Order.^[65]

Economy [edit]

People's Petroleum building in downtown Tyler

Sleeping accommodation of Commerce part in downtown Tyler

In addition to the city'south role in the rose-growing industry, Tyler is the headquarters for Brookshire Grocery Visitor, which operates Brookshire'due south, Fresh, Super one Foods, and Spring Market supermarkets in the Ark-La-Tex and parts of Dallas–Fort Worth.^[66] The company's main distribution center is in south Tyler, while SouthWest Foods, a subsidiary that processes dairy products, is merely northeast of the city.

The metropolis and metropolitan expanse also has a growing manufacturing sector including: Tyler Pipe, a subsidiary of McWane Inc. that produces soil and utility pipe products; Trane Technologies Inc., formerly a unit of American Standard Companies, which articles air conditioners and rut pumps (this plant was originally built in 1955 by General Electric); Delek Refining, an Israeli-owned oil refinery formerly La Gloria Oil and Gas Co (a Crown Central Petroleum subsidiary); PCSFerguson, an operating company of Dover Corporation that specializes in equipment for the measurement and product of natural gas using the plunger lift method; DYNAenergetics Tyler Distribution Center, part of DYNAenergetics USA, which manufactures perforating equipment and explosives for the oil and gas industry; and Vesuvius Usa, a manufacturer of refractory ceramics used in the steel industry.

According to the metropolis's 2012–2013 Comprehensive Almanac Fiscal Report,^[67] the city's top ten employers were:

#	Employer	# of Employees
1	Trinity Mother Frances Health System	three,775
2	UT Health - Tyler	3,153
3	Brookshire Grocery Company	2,599
four	Tyler Independent School District	two,468
5	Trane Technologies	1,500
6	SuddenLink	1,500
7	Walmart	i,311
viii	The University of Texas at Tyler	1,121
9	UT Health - Tyler (north campus)	925
10	Tyler Junior College	862

Recreation and tourism [edit]

Annually, the Texas Rose Festival draws thousands of tourists to Tyler.^[68] The festival, which celebrates the part of the rose-growing industry in the local economic system, is held in Oct and features a parade, the coronation of the Rose Queen, and other civic events. The Rose Museum features the history of the Festival. Tyler is also home to Caldwell Zoo, several local museums, Lake Palestine, Lake Tyler, and numerous golf game courses and country clubs.^[69] A few miles away in Flint, Texas is The WaterPark @ The Villages, a year-circular, indoor water park.

At that place is also an "Azalea Trail" in Tyler, which consists of ii officially designated routes within the metropolis that showcase homes or other landscaped venues adorned with azalea shrubs.^[70] The Azalea Trail also is dwelling to the long-standing tradition of the Azalea Belles. The official greeters of the Azalea Trail are known equally the Azalea Belles, young women from the Tyler area who dress in antebellum gowns. The belles are chosen each year from area high schools or home school families.

Tyler State Park, a few miles north of the city limits, attracts visitors with opportunities to camp, canoe, and paddle boat on the lake. Other available pastimes include picnicking, boating (motors allowed – v mph speed limit), boat rentals, angling, birding, hiking, mount biking, hiking trails, lake swimming (in unsupervised swimming area), and nature study.

The Smith Canton Historical Guild operates a museum and athenaeum in the former Carnegie Library.^[71] The East Texas Country Fair is held annually in Tyler.^[72] Harvey Convention Eye, the largest building at Tyler'southward fairgrounds is slated for demolition in August 2021.^[73] Lake Tyler was the location of the HGTV Dream Home contest in 2005. The six,500 sq ft (600 m²) house helped to boost tourism and interest in the community and surrounding areas. It was afterward sold at public sale in January 2008, for Usa$ane,325,000 (equivalent to $1,667,616 in 2021).^[74]

Historical [edit]

The Smith County Historical Order building is across the street from the Tyler Public Library

Tyler has a Cotton wool Belt Railroad Depot Museum near the Chamber of Commerce role.

Individuals and business organisation firms dedicated to discovering, collecting, and preserving data, records, and other items relating to the history of Smith County, Texas, founded The Smith County Historical Order, a 501(c)(three) non-profit system, in 1959. The society operates a museum and archives in the former Carnegie Public Library building in downtown Tyler. Permanent museum exhibits include life-size dioramas of Smith Canton history, with topics ranging from the Caddo Indians to the 20th century.

Other items from the club's collections are showcased in revolving, temporary exhibits. The society'due south archival library contains historical artifacts of Smith County, including newspapers, metropolis directories, school records, photographs, maps, historical papers, and rare books. The archives are open to the public for research on a limited schedule with volunteer staff on duty. The guild is as well the official caretaker of Camp Ford Historic Park.

Campsite Ford was the largest Amalgamated Prisoner of War army camp west of the Mississippi River during the American Civil State of war. The original site of the army camp stockade is a public historic park managed by the Smith County Historical Club.^[75] The park contains a kiosk, paved trail, interpretive signage, a cabin reconstruction, and a picnic area. It is on Highway 271, 0.8 mi (1.iii km) north of Loop 323.

Sports [edit]

College and university teams [edit]

UT Tyler women's basketball team

• University of Texas at Tyler Patriots (NCAA Division II)
• Texas College Steers (HBCU)
• Tyler Inferior Higher Apaches (NJCAA)

Baseball teams [edit]

• Tyler Elbertas (1912)
• Tyler Trojans (1924–1929, 1931, 1935–1940, 1946–1950)
• Tyler Sports (1932)
• Tyler Governors (1933–1934)
• Tyler East Texans (1950–1953)
• Tyler Tigers (1954–1955)
• Tyler Wildcatters (1994–1997)
• Tyler Roughnecks (2001)^[76]

Football [edit]

• Eastward Texas Twisters (2004)^[77]

Route races [edit]

• Fresh 15 Road Race (Almanac)

Soccer [edit]

• Tyler FC (2016–Nowadays)^[78]

Disc golf [edit]

• Tyler features fifteen disc golf game courses and seven leagues, and the surrounding area features a total of thirty-6 courses and seventeen leagues. For these reasons, users of the disc golf game app UDisc ranked Tyler equally the third best disc golf destination in Texas and second all-time in the United States.^[79]

Government [edit]

Local government [edit]

According to the city'southward 2009 Comprehensive Annual Fiscal Report, the city's various funds had $87.7 million in revenues, $101.7 million in expenditures, $49.ii one thousand thousand in total avails, $12.iii million in total liabilities, and $17.half dozen million in cash in investments.^[fourscore]

The Northeast Texas Public Health Commune is a political subdivision nether the State of Texas established past the City of Tyler and Smith Canton.^[88] In identify for nearly 70 years, the Wellness District became a separate entity in 1994, with an administrative Public Health Board. With a stated vision "To exist the Healthiest Community in Texas", the district has a full-fourth dimension staff of over 130 employees. The Wellness District has a broad range of services and responsibilities dedicated to their mission: "To Protect, Promote, and Provide for the Health of Our Customs."

State regime [edit]

Tyler is represented in the Texas Senate past Republican Bryan Hughes, District 1, and in the Texas House of Representatives by Republican Matt Schaefer, District 6. The Texas Twelfth Court of Appeals is in Tyler.^[89] The Texas Department of Criminal Justice operates the Region I Parole Division Office and the Tyler Commune Parole Office in Tyler.^[ninety]

Federal government [edit]

The two U.Southward. senators from Texas are Republicans John Cornyn and Ted Cruz. Tyler is part of Texas's 1st congressional district, which is currently represented by Republican Louie Gohmert. The United States Postal service operates several mail offices in Tyler, including Tyler,^[91] Azalea,^[92] Southeast Crossing,^[93] and the S Tyler Annex.^[94]

Education [edit]

Caldwell Uncomplicated School Arts Academy

Colleges and universities [edit]

Tyler'due south higher education institutions include the University of Texas at Tyler and the University of Texas Wellness Center at Tyler, both part of the University of Texas System, too as Texas College, the city's only HBCU, and Tyler Junior Higher.

Chief and secondary schools [edit]

Public primary and secondary educational activity for much of the city is provided by the Tyler Independent School District, which includes high schools Tyler High School (previously known equally John Tyler High School) and Tyler Legacy High School (previously known as Robert Eastward. Lee High Schoolhouse), as well as Tyler ISD Early Higher High School, Premier Loftier School of Tyler, a public lease school (Cumberland Academy). Several Tyler schools offer international baccalaureate and advanced placement programs.^[95]

Tyler is also home to the University of Texas at Tyler University Academy at Tyler, a 1000–12 public charter operated by the Academy of Texas at Tyler since 2012 that offers academy courses to students in grades nine–12.

Portions of incorporated Tyler are served past surrounding school districts. These include sections of southeast Tyler, served by the Whitehouse Independent Schoolhouse District, and some sections in the e which are served by the chapel Hill Independent Schoolhouse District.

Private schools [edit]

At that place are also private schools in Tyler, including Grace Community School (Texas), All Saints Episcopal School, Seventh-day Adventist Church School, King'southward Academy Christian School, Kingdom Life Academy (in the same building but not affiliated with King'southward Academy), Christian Heritage Schoolhouse, Eastward Texas Christian University, and Skilful Shepherd Reformed Episcopal School. The Brook Hill Schoolhouse in nearby Bullard, TX is besides served by the Tyler Independent School Commune. The Tyler Catholic School System of the Cosmic Diocese of Tyler consists of St. Gregory Cathedral School and Bishop Thomas K. Gorman Regional Catholic Middle and High School.^[96]

Media [edit]

Tyler has 24 media outlets and one paper. There are many others in the surrounding expanse.

Newspaper [edit]

• Tyler Forenoon Telegraph

Boob tube [edit]

VHF/UHF Aqueduct	Call Messages	Network
7	KLTV	ABC/Telemundo
19	KYTX	CBS/CW
51	KFXK-Television set	FOX/MyNetworkTV
54	KCEB	Azteca America
56	KETK	NBC

Radio [edit]

AM stations [edit]

Frequency	Telephone call Letters	Format	Name
600	KTBB	News/Talk
1330	KGLD	Gospel	The Light
1490	KYZS	Archetype Hits	Thousand-DOK (relay of KDOK Kilgore)

FM stations [edit]

Frequency	Phone call Letters	Format	Proper name
88.seven	KZLO	Christian Contemporary	KLOVE
89.5	KVNE	Christian Contemporary	Encouragement FM
91.3	KGLY	Religious	Lift 91.3
92.1	KRWR	Sports	92.1 The Team
93.1	KTYL	Hot Developed Contemporary	Mix 93.1
94.iii	KZWL	Christian Teaching	The Well
96.one	KKTX	Classic Stone	Classic Rock 96.1
96.vii	KOYE	Regional Mexican	La Invasora
97.5	KTBB-FM	News/Talk	KTBB
99.3	KAPW	Spanish Pop	Mega 99.iii
101.5	KNUE	Country	Today's Country 101.5 KNUE
102.3	KLFZ	Spanish Christian	Fuzíon 102.3
102.7	KBLZ	Urban Gimmicky	102.7 The Blaze
104.i	KKUS	Classic Country	104.1 The Ranch
106.5	KOOI	Multifariousness Hits	106.5 Jack FM
107.iii	KISX	Urban Adult Contemporary	107.3 Kiss-FM

Healthcare [edit]

Hospitals in Tyler include UT Wellness Tyler, Trinity Mother Frances Health System, UT Health North Campus Tyler, and Texas Spine & Joint Hospital. There are too many clinics including the Direct Care Clinic.

Transportation [edit]

Aerial photo of Tyler Pounds Regional Aerodrome

The most common form of transportation is the motor vehicle. Tyler is a nexus of several major highways. Interstate xx runs along the due north edge of the metropolis going eastward and west, U.Due south. Highway 69 runs north–south through the center of boondocks and State highway 64 runs e–west through the city. Tyler also has access to U.Southward. Highway 271, State highway 31, Throughway 155, and State Highway 110. Loop 323 was established in 1957 and encircles the metropolis, which has continued to grow exterior of this loop. Loop 49 is a limited access "outer loop" around the metropolis and currently runs from Land Highway 110 s of Tyler to U.s. 69 northwest of Tyler near Lindale. Loop 124 is 1.524 mi (2.453 km) in length.

Public transportation [edit]

Tyler Transit provides customers with public transportation service within the City of Tyler. The buses run daily, excluding Sundays and holidays. Tyler Transit offers customers the selection to purchase tickets, tokens, or passes at the Tyler Transit office, at 210 E. Oakwood Street inside the Cotton fiber Belt Railroad Depot at the chief transfer point. The Urban center of Tyler paratransit service is a shared-ride, public transportation service. Requests for service must be made the day before the service is needed. Trips can exist scheduled upwardly to 14 days in advance. ADA compliant paratransit service is provided to all origins and destinations within the service surface area defined as the city limits of Tyler.^[97] Greyhound Lines motorcoach service is available through a downtown terminal.

Air [edit]

Tyler Pounds Regional Aerodrome offers service to and from Dallas–Fort Worth International Airport and Denver International Aerodrome via American Eagle and Frontier, respectively. While American Eagle provides service with Embraer ERJ-135 and ERJ-145 regional jets, Frontier operates with Airbus A320 mainline jet aircraft, Europe'south own equivalent to the Boeing 737. General Aviation services are provided past two fixed-base operators, Johnson Aviation and the Jet Center of Tyler.

Train [edit]

Tyler was the hub for a serial of short-line railroads which later on evolved into the St. Louis Southwestern Railway, better known as "The Cotton Belt Route," with the urban center last existence a stop on the unnamed successor to the Morning Star between St. Louis and Dallas.^[98] This line subsequently became part of the Southern Pacific Railroad, which itself merged with the Union Pacific Railroad, which continues to serve the urban center today with freight traffic. No passenger train service to Tyler has occurred since April 1956, but Amtrak's Texas Eagle runs through the city of Mineola, a short distance northward of Tyler.

Walkability [edit]

A 2014 study by Walk Score ranked Tyler with a walkability score of 32 (out of 100) with some amenities within walking distance.^[99]

Notable events [edit]

• Fragments of the Space Shuttle Columbia landed near Tyler in 2003, following the breakup of it in the atmosphere.
• On the evening of 2009, a fire engulfed a number of historic buildings in downtown Tyler. Eight different fire departments responded to the fire.^[100]
• The 1982 Supreme Court case Plyler v. Doe, which prohibited denying schooling to immigrant children, originated in the Tyler Independent School District.^[101]
• The Tyler courthouse shooting occurred in 2005, when David Arroyo fatally shot his ex-wife and a man in the Tyler Square within the Smith County Courthouse.

Notable people [edit]

Sister cities [edit]

Tyler's sister cities are:^[102]

See also [edit]

• Cotton wool Chugalug Depot Train Museum
• List of museums in East Texas
• Tyler Museum of Art
• Whitaker-McClendon House

Notes [edit]

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Further reading [edit]

• Austin, Gladys Peters, Along the Century Trail: Early History of Tyler, Texas (Dallas: Avalon Press, 1946)
• Burton, Morris Tyler as an Early Railroad Center, Chronicles of Smith Canton, Leap 1963
• Betts, Vicki, Smith County, Texas, in the Civil War (Tyler, Texas: Smith County Historical Guild, 1978)
• Everett, Dianna, The Texas Cherokees: A People between Ii Fires, 1819–1840 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Printing, 1990)
• Glover, ed., Robert Westward., Tyler and Smith County, Texas (northward.p.: Walsworth, 1976)
• Henderson, Adele, Smith County, Texas: Its Background and History in Dues-Bellum Days (M.A. thesis, University of Texas, 1926)
• McDonald, Archie P. Historic Smith County (Historical Publishing Network, 2006).
• Reed, Robert Eastward. Jr. Images of America: Tyler (Arcadia Publishing, 2008).
• Reed, Robert E. Jr. Postcard History: Tyler (Arcadia Publishing, 2009).
• Smith County Historical Society, Historical Atlas of Smith County (Tyler, Texas: Tyler Print Shop, 1965)
• Wardlaw, Trevor P. "Sires and Sons: The Story of Hubbard's Regiment." CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015. ISBN 978-1511963732
• Whisenhunt, Donald W. comp., Chronological History of Smith Canton (Tyler, Texas: Smith County Historical Society, 1983)
• Woldert, Albert, A History of Tyler and Smith County (San Antonio: Naylor, 1948)

External links [edit]

Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Tyler .

• Urban center Of Tyler Website Official City Website

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler,_Texas

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