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4 Texas cities among top 10 in growth (New Census Data]
AP ^ | March 27, 2008 | PAUL J. WEBER

Posted on 03/27/2008 1:35:22 AM PDT by Aristotelian

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To: Muleteam1

My rate in Fannin county is 0.62 which is a rural county that borders the Red River.....higher taxes but no traffic and friendly folks...heckuva deal!


21 posted on 03/27/2008 5:45:32 AM PDT by RVN Airplane Driver ("To be born into freedom is an accident; to die in freedom is an obligation..)
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To: wolfcreek

The Texas legislature needs to get on the stick and work out the road funding problems. And the water supply problems. And the electricity supply problems.


22 posted on 03/27/2008 6:12:34 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: RVN Airplane Driver
I was incorrect in my first post. The highest rate belongs to Duval County, Texas with a rate of $1.03 per $100 appraisal value. Here are the 32 highest Texas counties for total property taxes.

The rates are shown as cents per $100 of appraisal value and are shown with their county seats. All are rural counties.

1. Duval County (San Diego) $1.03

2. Jim Hogg County (Hebbronville $0.9936

3. Throckmorton County (Throckmorton) $0.98704

4. Fisher County (Roby) $0.95

5. Foard County (Crowell) $0.9417

6. Delta County (Cooper) $0.932296

7. Lynn County (Tahoka) $0.9145

8. Falls County (Marlin) $0.8498

9. Crosby County (Crosbyton) $0.8497

10. Culberson County (Van Horn) $0.80732

11. Motley County (Matador) $0.8

12. King County (Guthrie) $0.7942

13. Karnes County (Karnes) $0.7885

14. Haskell County (Haskell) $0.7803

15. Oldham County (Vega) $0.78

16. Collingsworth County (Wellington) $0.77558

17. Lamb County (Littlefield) $0.7642

18. Atascosa County (Jourdanton) $0.7595

19. Knox County (Benjamin) $0.7566

20. Kinney County (Brackettville) $0.7554

21. Childress County (Childress) $0.754

22. Frio County (Pearsall) $0.753

23. Bailey County (Muleshoe) $0.7446

24. Runnels County (Ballinger) $0.74296

25. Zapata County (Zapata) $0.736096

26. Swisher County (Tulia) $0.71

27. Coleman County (Coleman) $0.7211

28. Dewitt County (Cuer0) $0.72236

29. Zavala County (Crystal City) $0.723206

30. Kenedy County (Sarita) $0.70671

31. Red River County (Clarksville) $0.70473

32. Jasper County (Jasper) $0.7005

NOTE: Texas has 254 counties.

* Rates are based on 2006 rates.

23 posted on 03/27/2008 7:00:09 AM PDT by Muleteam1
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To: Muleteam1

Do you have the rate for Collin county?


24 posted on 03/27/2008 7:02:18 AM PDT by bonfire
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To: Ben Ficklin
Yes they do. We're a big state and one of the largest economies in the world. We need a FULL TIME representation.
25 posted on 03/27/2008 12:36:17 PM PDT by wolfcreek (I see miles and miles of Texas....let's keep it that way.)
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To: wolfcreek

I agree with you on the full time representation. Or, at least once a year.


26 posted on 03/27/2008 1:04:57 PM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Muleteam1

Kennedy and Karnes counties?? It is said that there is alot of money in those counties but only two families have it all


27 posted on 03/27/2008 1:11:37 PM PDT by Rightly Biased (Courage is not the lack of fear it is acting in spite of it<><)
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To: bonfire
Collin County appears to have some fiscally responsible County leadership. It is one of Texas' lowest rates and has been so for some time. Here are the rates from 1991 to 2006:

1991 - 0.2209

1992 - 0.26

1993 - 0.26

1994 - 0.26

1995 - 0.26

1996 - 0.26

1997 - 0.26

1998 - 0.25

1999 - 0.25

2000 - 0.25

2001 - 0.25

2002 - 0.25

2003 - 0.25

2004 - 0.25

2005 - 0.25

2006 - 0.245

Source can be found here.

28 posted on 03/27/2008 1:35:41 PM PDT by Muleteam1
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To: Rightly Biased
I've been in many Texas counties but can't recall ever even driving through Karnes or Kenedy Counties. There must be someone down there willing to pay those high taxes?

Texas taxes continue to be a mystery to me.

29 posted on 03/27/2008 1:54:24 PM PDT by Muleteam1
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To: georgiabelle

Better stay away from the NYC area. You see signs everywhere in Spanish, in Arabic, in Portuguese, in Russian, etc. On the rare occasion that I venture into the local Wal Mart in Princeton, I hear just as much Urdu as I do English.


30 posted on 03/27/2008 1:55:53 PM PDT by Clemenza (I Live in New Jersey for the Same Reason People Slow Down to Look at Car Crashes)
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To: Muleteam1

Lots of open country in those counties kind of in South Central Texas

IIRC somekind of mining is done in those counties but for the life of me I can’t remember what.

By the looks of some of the residents maybe nose mining.


31 posted on 03/27/2008 2:23:26 PM PDT by Rightly Biased (Courage is not the lack of fear it is acting in spite of it<><)
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To: Rightly Biased

You made me curious. Apparently they mine uranium down there. Now that’s a new one on me.


32 posted on 03/27/2008 2:44:15 PM PDT by Muleteam1
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To: Muleteam1

Thanks! Used to live there and want to move back.


33 posted on 03/27/2008 2:52:30 PM PDT by bonfire
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To: Thermalseeker
>>Tennessee sucks rocks......<<

It's been a lot of years since I visited Tennessee but the Grand Ol' Opry and the horse farms around Murphysboro, were GREAT.

Texans don't believe it! Tennessee is a beautiful State and Texans won't even have to lose their accent or change their music.

34 posted on 03/27/2008 2:55:33 PM PDT by Muleteam1
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To: bonfire

My brother-in-law’s grandmother (a McGarrah) was from McKinney in the 1860s. I grew up in deep east Texas but I just can’t take that humidity anymore.


35 posted on 03/27/2008 3:06:50 PM PDT by Muleteam1
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To: Muleteam1

Interesting list. From a first glance it appears that several lie south of I-10 and would be rural, low population levels, locations of ranches to include such as the King and Kenedy, etc. Not sure that my obsverations mean anything but rather just ramblings that came to mind looking at the list.


36 posted on 03/27/2008 3:08:08 PM PDT by deport ( -- Cue Spooky Music --)
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To: deport

Yes there are a couple of the counties, including my own, that are up here in the Panhandle. Our problem is we have a lot of county roads to maintain and only one small town of about 5,000 people.


37 posted on 03/27/2008 3:14:07 PM PDT by Muleteam1
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Welcome to Texas. Try H-3 Steak House in Ft. Worth, if you haven't, yet.
38 posted on 03/27/2008 3:20:24 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (Sure, they'd love to kill me, as long as they can do it without admitting I exist)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

39 posted on 03/27/2008 8:56:14 PM PDT by ru4liberty (Who hired Craig Livingston???????)
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To: Muleteam1

uranium....boogers.....

kinda the same but not...

not much money in boogers I guess.


40 posted on 03/28/2008 5:42:55 AM PDT by Rightly Biased (Courage is not the lack of fear it is acting in spite of it<><)
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