Harris County, Texas (usa)

Harris County, Texas

Harris County, Texas ranks 8,114th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Dhamar, Yemen, Lampertheim, and Rumford, Maine. The most famous people from Harris County, Texas are Kagney Linn Karter, and Allison Tolman. Harris County, Texas has been the birth place of many pornographic actors, and actors. Harris County, Texas is located in United States.

Harris County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, the population was 4,731,145, and was estimated to be 5,009,302 in 2024, making it the most populous county in Texas and the third-most populous county in the United States. Its county seat is Houston, the most populous city in Texas and the fourth-most populous city in the United States. The county was founded on December 22, 1836 and organized on March 10, 1837. It is named for John Richardson Harris, who founded the town of Harrisburg on Buffalo Bayou in 1826. It contains over 16% of the state's population. Harris County is included in the nine-county Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan statistical area, which is the fifth-most populous metropolitan area in the United States. Read more on Wikipedia