Hunt County, Texas

Hunt County
Hunt County
County
	The Hunt County Courthouse in Greenville
	Location within the U.S. state of Texas
	Texas's location within the U.S.
	Coordinates: 33°07′N 96°05′W / 33.12°N 96.09°W
Country	United States
State	Texas
Founded	1846
Named for	Memucan Hunt, Jr.
Seat	Greenville
Largest city	Greenville
Area
• Total	882 sq mi (2,280 km2)
• Land	840 sq mi (2,200 km2)
• Water	42 sq mi (110 km2) 4.7%
Population (2020)
• Total	99,956
• Density	110/sq mi (44/km2)
Time zone	UTC−6 (Central)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−5 (CDT)
Congressional districts	3rd, 4th
Website	www.huntcounty.net

Hunt County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 99,956.^[1] Its county seat is Greenville.^[2] The county is named for Memucan Hunt, Jr., the first Republic of Texas Minister to the United States from 1837 to 1838 and the third Texas Secretary of the Navy from 1838 to 1839.^[3] Hunt County is located in Northeast Texas, at the eastern edge of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex and the western edge of East Texas. Hunt County is part of the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metropolitan statistical area.

^ "Hunt County, Texas". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 30, 2022.
^ "Find a County". National Association of Counties. Archived from the original on May 31, 2011. Retrieved June 7, 2011.
^ Gannett, Henry (1905). The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. Govt. Print. Off. pp. 163.