Tira, Texas
Tira is a town in Hopkins County, Texas, United States. The population was 297 at the 2010 census. Geography Tira is located in northern Hopkins County at (33.326629, –95.569853). Texas State Highway 19 runs through the western part of the town, leading north to Paris and south to Sulphur Springs, the Hopkins county seat. Tira is east of the dam at the outlet of Jim Chapman Lake (formerly known as Cooper Lake) and is by road northeast of the South Sulphur Unit of Cooper Lake State Park. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which , or 1.65%, are water. Demographics 2020 census As of the 2020 United States census, there were 319 people, 115 households, and 80 families residing in the town. 2000 census As of the census of 2000, there were 248 people, 102 households, and 75 families residing in the town. The population density was 172.4 people per square mile (66.5/km2). There were 117 housing units at an average density of 81.3 ...
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Town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than city, cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an origin with the German language, German word , the Dutch language, Dutch word , and the Old Norse . The original Proto-Germanic language, Proto-Germanic word, *''tūnan'', is thought to be an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic language, Proto-Celtic *''dūnom'' (cf. Old Irish , Welsh language, Welsh ). The original sense of the word in both Germanic and Celtic was that of a fortress or an enclosure. Cognates of ''town'' in many modern Germanic languages designate a fence or a hedge. In English and Dutch, the meaning of the word took on the sense of the space which these fences enclo