Category: Texas

Planning to visit or move to Texas? Our team has gathered a collection of helpful links containing interesting facts and data about Texas. Simply click on the topic headings below to reveal links that will direct you to information about commodities, state taxes, the best banks and the top corporations in the community.

The nation’s largest (and most expensive) ranch property is in Texas. No surprise there. Mesa Vista Ranch is indeed a sprawling property with truly jaw-dropping numbers: 65,000 acres of land in the Eastern Texas Panhandle and a 33,000-square-foot main residence—all 85 miles from the closest town, Amarillo. It’s the pet project of former owner and financier T. Boone Pickens, who spent 50 years transforming the land into the ginormous playground that it is today. Pickens created man-made streams and introduced new conservation practices to bolster the property’s pre-existing wildlife population. Amenities are creatively sprinkled throughout the landscape, including a two-story pub, a freestanding gun room, an 11,000-square-foot dog kennel with 40 pens and a veterinary lab, an airport hangar and even a chapel. Boone Pickens added a lake house to the place as well: an 11,500-square-foot home with pristine water views. And the listing claims that estate is essentially turnkey, as it includes all of the businessman’s pickup trucks, hunting vehicles, farming equipment and furnishings—and even his bird dogs. The cows and the artwork (yes, those were grouped together) can be purchased separately.

IT’S (NOT) Rocket Science

Home to NASA mission control, Houston has seen its fair share of brilliant minds maintain a residential abode within the city limits. From Carl Sagan to Gene Kranz, NASA has settled for nothing less than some of the brightest minds in human history. With a pedigree like that, it’s no wonder why Houston is the nucleus of innovation. The world’s largest concentration of medical research and healthcare institutions is located in Houston at the Texas Medical Center. The job market in Houston is undoubtedly the biggest draw for brilliant minds. From healthcare to aerospace, manufacturing, and biotech. Houston has a virtually limitless talent pool. If your office is in Houston, you automatically inherit some of the most talented and competitive employee prospects

Billionaires in Bulk

Houston Texas is home to 15 billionaires as of 2020. Houston isn’t merely wealthy from a national perspective, Houston contains a measurable proportion of the world’s wealth. It can’t be all ten-gallon hats and brisket. What makes Houston stand out like a separate nation is one thing that wars have been fought over since the bronze age, a booming port. There’s no GDP without the ability to import and export. The Port of Houston ranks first in the U.S. in international waterborne tonnage handled and second in total cargo tonnage handled. When you are a world leader in exporting oil and petroleum, you even have OPEC on a short leash.

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