Huntsville, Texas

Huntsville
City
City of Huntsville
Motto:  Home Sweet Huntsville
Location of Huntsville, Texas
Coordinates: 30°43′20″N 95°33′12″W / 30.72222°N 95.55333°W / 30.72222; -95.55333
Country	United States
State	Texas
County	Walker
Founded	1835
Government
• Type	Council-Manager
• City Council	Mayor Andy Brauninger Daiquiri Beebe Russell Humphrey Blake Irving Pat Graham Bert Lyle Vicki McKenzie Dee Howard Mullins Joe Rodriquez
• City Manager	Aron Kulhavy
Area [1]
• City	43.43 sq mi (112.47 km2)
• Land	42.59 sq mi (110.30 km2)
• Water	0.84 sq mi (2.17 km2)
Elevation	371 ft (113 m)
Population  (2020)[2]
• City	45,941
• Estimate  (2022)[3]	47,351
• Density	991.88/sq mi (382.97/km2)
• Metro	77,038
Time zone	UTC−6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC−5 (CDT)
ZIP Codes	77320, 77340–77344, 77348–77349
Area code	936
FIPS code	48-35528
GNIS feature ID	1382049[4]
Website	huntsvilletx.gov

Huntsville is a city in and the county seat of Walker County, Texas, United States.^[5] The population was 45,941 as of the 2020 census.^[2] It is the center of the Huntsville micropolitan area. Huntsville is in the East Texas Piney Woods on Interstate 45 and home to Sam Houston State University, Texas State Prison, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Huntsville State Park, and HEARTS Veterans Museum of Texas.

The city served as the residence of Sam Houston, the first and third president of the Republic of Texas who later represented the state in the U.S. Senate. He is recognized in Huntsville by the Sam Houston Memorial Museum, a statue on Interstate 45, and Sam Houston State University, located in central Huntsville.