Huntington is a city in
Angelina County,
Texas
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, United States. The population was 2,025 at the 2020 census.
The site is named for
Collis Potter Huntington
Collis Potter Huntington (October 22, 1821 – August 13, 1900) was an American industrialist and railway magnate. He was one of the Big Four of western railroading (along with Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker) who invested ...
, the chairman of the board of the
Southern Pacific Railroad
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when the town was formed and one of the
Big Four Big Four or Big 4 may refer to:
Groups of companies
* Big Four accounting firms: Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG, PwC
* Big Four (airlines) in the U.S. in the 20th century: American, Eastern, TWA, United
* Big Four (banking), several groupings ...
. Huntington is known as the "Gateway to Lake Sam Rayburn".
Geography
Huntington is located in eastern Angelina County at (31.279227, –94.572881).
U.S. Route 69
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passes through the city, leading northwest to
Lufkin, the county seat, and south to
Woodville and to
Beaumont.
According to the
United States Census Bureau
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An economy is an area of th ...
, Huntington has a total area of , of which , or 0.36%, is water.
Demographics
As of the