Maryland

See List of people from Maryland. The Round Rock Express of the Pacific Coast League play Triple-A baseball in nearby Round Rock, Texas. For a more exhaustive list, see List of cities in Maryland. Among the professional sports teams in Austin are the Austin Ice Bats of the Central Hockey League and the Austin Wranglers of the Arena Football League. See also:Places in Maryland Ranked by Per Capita Income. Although the Libertarians remain a third party, the party is very active in the Austin area, and two past Libertarian presidential candidates, Ron Paul and Michael Badnarik have come from the vicinity of Austin. Notwithstanding numerical positions, the founding intent of Maryland has made the state prominent in US Catholic tradition. For example, Baltimore was the location of the first Catholic bishop in the USA ( 1789) and Emmitsburg, the home and burial place of the first American-born citizen to be canonized, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton. The combination of economic conservatism with political liberalism has also made Austin an active area for the Libertarian Party.

The three largest Protestant denominations in Maryland are: Baptist (17% of the total state population), Methodist (14%), Lutheran (6%). However, two of its three congressional districts are presently held by Republicans; this is largely due to the 2003 redistricting, which left Austin with no congressional seat of its own. The present religious composition of the state is shown in the table below:. Of Austin's six state legislative districts, three are strongly Democratic, one strongly Republican, and two are swing districts (one presently held by a Republican and the other by a Democrat). Therefore, despite the founding intent of the colony, Catholics have never been in a majority in Maryland since early Colonial times. Overall, the city leans to the Democrats; in the 2004 presidential election, John Kerry defeated George W Bush by a wide margin in Austin. Nevertheless, the Crown later reversed that policy and discouraged the practice of Catholicism in Maryland. Congressional districts to dilute its influence vis a vis the suburbs. To a limited degree the division between Democratic and Republican precincts coincides with the aforementioned divisions between supporters of environmental regulations and supporters of unfettered urban growth.

Maryland was founded for the purpose of providing religious toleration of England's Catholic minority. One consequence of this is that the central city has been gerrymandered by the Republican-controlled state legislature into several U.S. The five largest ancestries in Maryland are: African American (27.9%), German (15.7%), Irish (11.7%), English (9%), American (5.8%). As a result of the major party realignment that began in the 1970's, central Austin became a stronghold of the Democratic Party while the suburbs tend to vote Republican. The racial makeup of the state is:. Austin is well known as a center for liberal politics in a generally conservative state, leading some conservatives to deride the city as the "People's Republic of Austin." Austin's suburbs, especially to the west and north, and several satellite municipalities, however, tend towards political conservativism. The three counties of Western Maryland (Allegany, Garrett, and Washington) are mountainous and sparsely populated, resembling West Virginia more than they do the rest of Maryland. The city council has in the past tried to mitigate the controversy by advocating smart growth, but growth and environmental protection are still the main hot-button issues in city politics.

The Eastern Shore is less populous and more rural, as are the counties of southern Maryland. The political controversy that dominated the 1990s was the conflict between environmentalists, strong in the city center, and advocates of urban growth, who tend to live in the outlying areas. Most of the people live in the central region of Maryland, in the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area. The main political actors within Austin city politics are interest groups such as the pro-environmental Save Our Springs Alliance, the Austin Police Association, Austin Toll Party and the Austin Business Council. As of 2003, the state's population was 5,508,909. Austin remains an anomaly among large Texas cities in that the council is not elected by districts, and there has been a strong effort to change the election system to one of single districts. and Baltimore, and other towns. Council and mayoral elections are non-partisan, with a runoff in case there is no 50% majority winner.

MARC trains, operated by the State's Transit Authority, connect nearby Washington, D.C. Austin is administered by a city council of seven members, each of them elected by the entire city, and by an elected mayor. In addition, train service is provided between Washington, D.C., Rockville, Maryland, and Cumberland, Maryland on the Amtrak Capitol Limited. The Zilker Tree is lit in early December along with the "Trail of Lights," an Austin Christmas tradition. Amtrak Trains serve Baltimore along the Northeast Corridor. The "Zilker Tree" is a Christmas "tree" made of large lights strung from the top of the Moonlight Tower that stands in Zilker Park. are also serviced by the other two airports in the region, Reagan National and Dulles International Airports, both in Virginia. The towers were prominently featured in the film Dazed and Confused.

The Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C. At night, parts of Austin are lit with "artificial moonlight." Several "Moonlight Towers", built in the late 19th century and recognized as historic landmarks, illuminate the central part of the city. Maryland's main airport is Baltimore-Washington International Airport (formerly known as Friendship Airport and recently renamed for former Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall). The iconic Pennybacker Bridge, also known as the "360 Bridge," crosses Lake Austin to connect north and south Loop 360. I-695 is the Baltimore beltway. In the summer, the colony has up to 1.5 million Mexican Free-tailed Bats; in the winter they migrate to Mexico. I-68 connects the western portions of the state to Frederick, and I-70 connects Frederick with Baltimore. The Congress Avenue Bridge houses the world's largest urban bat population.

Maryland's major Interstate Highways include I-95, which enters the northeast portion of the state, goes through Baltimore, and becomes the Capital Beltway to the Woodrow Wilson Bridge. In 2004 the city was named #1 in Moviemaker Magazine's Annual Top 10 Cities to live and make movies. Historically, there used to be small gold mining operations in Maryland, some surprisingly near Washington, but these no longer exist. Austin hosts the annual Austin Film Festival, as well as the South by Southwest Festival, which draw films of many different types from all over the world. Mining other than construction materials is virtually limited to coal, located in the mountainous western part of the state. In construction mention should be made of the brownstone quarries in the east, which gave Baltimore and Washington much of their characteristic architecture in the mid-1800's. It is also home to several other entertainers including Sandra Bullock and Willie Nelson. The once mighty primary metals sub-sector, which at one time included what was then the largest steel factory in the world at Sparrows Point, still exists, but is pressed with foreign competition, bankruptcies, and company mergers. Austin is home to several well-known directors, including Robert Rodriguez, Richard Linklater, and Tim McCanlies.

Manufacturing, while large in dollar value, is highly diversified with no sub-sector contributing over 20% of the total. Typical forms of manufacturing include electronics, computer equipment, and chemicals. The University of Texas has an outstanding Radio, Television, and Film (RTF) department [1] (http://rtf.utexas.edu/) and, partly because of this, Austin has been the location of a number of movies, including Man of the House, Secondhand Lions, Waking Life, Spy Kids, Dazed and Confused, Office Space, The Life of David Gale, "Miss Congeniality", and Slacker. The third component of the food producing sector are food processing plants, which are the most significant type of manufacturing by value in the state. The proliferation of technology companies has led to the region's nickname, "the Silicon Hills," (Austin was originally "Silicon Gulch", but it seems that San Jose, Ca. already has that distinction) and has spurred rapid development that has greatly expanded the city to the north and south. There is also a large chicken-farming sector in the state. Other high-tech companies in Austin include Apple Computer, Vignette, AMD, Intel, Cirrus Logic,Samsung and National Instruments. In addition, the southern counties of the western shoreline of Chesapeake Bay support a tobacco cash crop zone, which has been in existence since early Colonial times. Austin's biggest employers include the State of Texas, the University of Texas, Dell, IBM, and Freescale Semiconductor (spun off from Motorola in 2004).

Agriculture is oriented to dairying for nearby large city milksheads plus specialty perishable horticulture crops, such as cucumbers, watermelons, sweet corn, tomatoes, muskmelons, squash, and peas (Source:USDA Crop Profiles). As a result of the relatively high concentration of high tech companies in the region, Austin was strongly affected by the dot-com boom in the late 1990s and subsequent bust, although recovery is proceeding rapidly. Maryland has a large amount of fertile agricultural land in its coastal and Piedmont zones, although this land use is being encroached upon by urbanization. The metro Austin area also has much lower housing costs than, for example, Silicon Valley. While not, strictly speaking, a commercial food resource, the waterfowl support a tourism sector of sportsmen. Thousands of graduates each year from the Computer Science and Engineering programs at UT provide a steady source of young, talented, and driven employees. The Bay also has uncounted millions of overwintering waterfowl in its many wildlife refuges. Austin is the center of a high-technology region known as Silicon Hills.

The largest catches by species are the blue crab, oysters, striped bass, and menhaden. Austin was also the longtime home of the late blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughn. One component is commercial fishing, centered in Chesapeake Bay, but also including activity off the short Atlantic seacoast. Bush. Maryland has a large food producing sector. Johnson and George W. A list of government agencies located in Maryland is summarized below:. Former residents include Lyndon B.

Altogether, white collar technical and administrative workers comprise 25% of Maryland's labor force, one of the highest state percentages in the country. Famous Austin residents include cyclist Lance Armstrong, businessman Michael Dell, tennis player Andy Roddick, actors Sandra Bullock and Matthew McConaughey, musician Willie Nelson, and directors Richard Linklater and Robert Rodriguez. In fact, the various components of Johns Hopkins University and its medical research facilities are now the largest single employer in the Baltimore area. Out of the total population, 16.5% of those under the age of 18 and 8.7% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line. In addition to these are many educational and medical research institutions. 14.4% of the population and 9.1% of families are below the poverty line. and emphasizes technical and administrative tasks for the defense/aerospace industry and bio-research laboratories, as well as staffing of satellite government headquarters in the suburban or exurban Baltimore/Washington area. The per capita income for the city is $24,163.

A second service activity takes advantage of the close location of the center of government in Washington, D.C. $30,046 for females. Although the port handles a wide variety of products, the most typical imports are raw materials and bulk commodities, such as iron ore, petroleum, sugar, and fertilizers, often distributed to the relatively close manufacturing centers of the inland Midwest via good overland transportation. Males have a median income of $35,545 vs. The port ranked 10th in the USA by tonnage in 2002 (Source: US Corps of Engineers, "Waterborn Commerce Statistics"). The median income for a household in the city is $42,689, and the median income for a family is $54,091. One major service activity is transportation, centered around the Port of Baltimore and its related rail and trucking access. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 105.7 males.

Maryland's economic activity is strongly concentrated in the tertiary service sector, and this sector, in turn, is strongly influenced by location. For every 100 females there are 105.8 males. The Bureau of Economic Analysis (http://www.bea.gov/) estimates that Maryland's total state product in 2003 was $212 billion. Per capita personal income in 2003 was $37,446, 5^th in the nation. The median age is 30 years. Growing climate varies from USDA Zone 8 on the Eastern Shore and in the cities of Baltimore and Washington DC to Zones 7 and 6 is the Piedmont, to Zone 5 in the mountainous west. In the city the population is spread out with 22.5% under the age of 18, 16.6% from 18 to 24, 37.1% from 25 to 44, 17.1% from 45 to 64, and 6.7% who are 65 years of age or older. Extreme western Maryland has a mountain climate with mild summers and cold winters. The average household size is 2.40 and the average family size is 3.14.

Beyond the plain rise the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, and the Piedmont region has warm summers and colder winters, where snow often falls. 32.8% of all households are made up of individuals and 4.6% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. Mary's City) are a part of the Atlantic Coastal Plain, which has a humid subtropical climate of hot summers and mild winters. There are 265,649 households out of which 26.8% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 38.1% are married couples living together, 10.8% have a female householder with no husband present, and 46.7% are non-families. The Eastern Shore region, as well as a small part of the western shore (including Baltimore, Annapolis, and St. 30.55% of the population are Hispanic American or Latino of any race. Climate varies greatly across the state, depending on factors like elevation, rainfall, and proximity to water. The racial makeup of the city is 65.36% White, 10.05% Black or African American, 0.59% Native American, 4.72% Asian, 0.07% Pacific Islander, 16.23% from other races, and 2.99% from two or more races.

One of the most noted features of Delmarva is Maryland's Assateague Island, on the Atlantic, with its herd of wild ponies accustomed to the seashore. The population density is 1,007.9/km² (2,610.4/mi²). There are 276,842 housing units at an average density of 425.0/km² (1,100.7/mi²). The Delmarva Peninsula is a geographic term for the Eastern Shore counties of Maryland, the state of Delaware, and two counties of Virginia, which all together form a long extension down the Atlantic seaboard. As of the census² of 2000, there are 656,562 people, 265,649 households, and 141,590 families residing in the city. This geographical curiosity, the " Maryland wasp-waist" is located near the small town of Hancock. At about 780 feet above sea level, it is a natural limestone formation overlooking Lake Austin on the Colorado River approximately 200 feet below its summit. Also in Western Maryland, about two-thirds of the way across the state line, is a point at which the state of Maryland is only two miles wide. A popular point of prominence in Austin is Mount Bonnell.

The highest point in Maryland is Backbone Mountain, which is the southwest corner of Garrett County, right near the border with West Virginia near the headwaters of the North Branch of the Potomac. The total area is 2.67% water. A portion of extreme western Maryland in Garrett County is drained by the Youghiogheny River as part of the watershed of the Mississippi River. 651.4 km² (251.5 mi²) of it is land and 17.9 km² (6.9 mi²) of it is water. The Chesapeake Bay nearly bisects the state, and the counties east of the Bay are known collectively as the Eastern Shore. Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 669.3 km² (258.4 mi²). It shares a border near the center of the state along the Potomac with Washington, DC. According to the U.S.

Maryland is bounded on the north by Pennsylvania, on the west by West Virginia, on the east by Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean, and on the south, across the Potomac River, by Virginia. According to the 2000 United States Census Bureau, Austin is located at 30°18'01" North, 97°44'50" West (30.300474, -97.747247)¹. See: List of Maryland counties, List of Maryland rivers. Ironically, the headquarters of his main opponent, Al Gore, were in Nashville, thus re-creating the old Country Music rivalry between the two cities. Virtually all state and county elections are held in even numbered years not divisible by four, in which the President of the United States is not elected - this, as in other States, is intended to divide State and Federal politics. Bush. Most of the business of government is done in Annapolis, the State capital. In 2000, Austin became the center of an intense media focus as the headquarters of presidential candidate and Texas Governor George W.

Unlike most other states, significant autonomy is granted to many of Maryland's counties. Initially the technology industry was centered around larger, established companies such as IBM, but in the late 1990s, Austin gained the additional reputation of being a center of the dot-com boom and subsequent dot-com bust. Power in Maryland is divided among three branches of government, executive, legislative, and judicial. In the 1990s, the boom resumed with the influx and growth of a large technology industry. Maryland is a republic; the United States guarantees her "republican form of government" [|USC Article IV, section 4 (http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.articleiv.html#section4)] although there is considerable disagreement about the meaning of that phrase. In particular the preservation of Barton Springs, and by extension the Edwards Aquifer, became an issue which defined the themes of the larger battles. The United States is a federation; consequently, the Government of Maryland, like the other 49 state governments, has exclusive authority over matters that lie entirely within the state's borders, except as limited by the Constitution of the United States. The growth led to an ongoing series of fierce political battles that pitted preservationists against developers.

The Government of Maryland is conducted according to the state constitution. During the 1970s and 1980s, the city experienced a tremendous boom in development that temporarily halted with the Savings and Loan collapse in the late 1980s. Main article: Government of Maryland. This ultimately led to the present situation where the city touts itself as the "live music capital of the world.". The right to vote was not, however, extended to non-white males until 1867. The best-known artist in this group was Willie Nelson, who became an icon for the local "alternate music industry." In the following years, Austin gained a reputation as a place where struggling musicians could come and launch their careers in informal live venues in front of receptive audiences. Article 24 of that document outlawed the practice of slavery. In the 1970s, Austin became a refuge for a group of Country and Western musicians and songwriters seeking to escape the corporate industry domination of Nashville.

A constitutional convention was held during 1864 that culminated in the passage of a new state constitution on November 1 of that year. The event is considered the most traumatic event in the city's history. Because of this it was not included under the Emancipation Proclamation. On August 1, 1966, Austin was terrorized by Charles Whitman, who shot and killed 16 people with a high-powered rifle from the clocktower of the Main Building on the University of Texas campus. Despite popular support for the cause of the Confederate States of America, Maryland did not secede during the United States Civil War, in part due to precautions taken by the government in Washington, D.C. Lyndon Baines Johnson, then a member of the House of Representatives, was instrumental in getting the funding authorized for these dams. It was during this bombardment that the Star Spangled Banner was writen by Francis Scott Key. In the 1930s, the original dam was replaced by a series of seven dams built by the federal government which created the string of reservoirs that now define the river's course through Austin.

During the War of 1812 the British military attempted to capture the port of Baltimore which was protected by Fort McHenry. In 1911, a streetcar line was extended into South Austin, allowing for the development of Travis Heights in 1913. In 1708 the seat of government was moved to Providence, renamed Annapolis in honor of Queen Anne. The Littlefield Building at 6th and Congress also opened in 1910. St Mary's City is now an archaelogical site, with a small tourist center. In 1910, the concrete Congress Avenue Bridge across the Colorado River opened, fostering development along South Congress. During the persecution of Maryland Catholics by the Puritan revolutionary government, all of the original Catholic churches of southern Maryland were burned down. In 1893, the Great Granite Dam on the Colorado River was constructed, stabilizing the river's flow and providing hydroelectric power.

This lasted until 1658 when the Calvert family regained control and re-enacted the Toleration Act. In 1891, the Hyde Park neighborhood was developed north of the University as a streetcar suburb. In 1650 the Puritans revolted against the proprietary government and set up a new government that outlawed both Catholicism and Anglicanism. At the time it was billed as the "Seventh largest building in the world.". After Virginia made the practice of Anglicanism mandatory, a large number of Puritans migrated from Virginia to Maryland, and were given land for a settlement called Providence (now called Annapolis). The Texas State Capitol was completed in 1888 on the site specified in the 1839 plan. Mary's City was the largest site of the original Maryland colony, and was the seat of the colonial government until 1708. That same year, the first institution of higher learning, the forerunner of Huston-Tillotson College, opened as the Tillotson Collegiate and Normal Institute.

St. In September 1881, the city schools admitted their first classes. The Calvert family, which controlled Maryland, and the Penn family, which controlled Pennsylvania, engaged two surveyors, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, to survey what became known as the Mason-Dixon line which would form the boundary between their two colonies. After Texas was admitted to the Union in 1845, two statewide elections were held that attempted to move the capital elsewhere, but Austin remained the capital. This was found to be a problem, because the northern boundary would put Philadelphia, the major city in Pennsylvania, within Maryland. Angelina Eberly fired a cannon at the men, who made their escape, only to be caught by another group of men who returned the archives back to Austin. Originally, based on an incorrect map, the royal charter granted Maryland the Potomac River and territory northward to the fortieth parallel. Mrs.

The Maryland Toleration Act (1649) was one of the first laws that explicitly tolerated varieties of religion (as long as it was Christian), and is sometimes seen as a precursor to the First Amendment. In the dead of night on December 29, 1842, a group of men was sent to take the archives of Texas from Austin to Washington-on-the-Brazos. Maryland was one of the key destinations of tens of thousands of British convicts, which carried on until independence. President Sam Houston had tried to relocate the seat of government from Austin to Houston, and then to Washington-on-the-Brazos. The English colony of Maryland was founded by Lord Baltimore who on March 25, 1634 led the first settlers into this area which would soon become one of the few dominantly Catholic regions among the English colonies in America. In 1842, Austin almost lost its status as capital city during the event known as the Texas Archive War. The new colony was named in honour of Henrietta Maria, Queen Consort of Charles I. By the next January, the population of the town was 839 people.

George Calvert died in April 1632, but a charter for "Maryland Colony" (in Latin, "Terra Maria") was granted to his son, Cęcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, on June 20, 1632. In October 1839, the entire government of the Republic of Texas arrived by oxcart from Houston. George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore applied to Charles I for a new royal charter for what was to become the Province of Maryland. The original tree-named streets survive in nostalgic names, including Pecan Street, which is the name of a locally-produced beer. Main article: History of Maryland. The east-west streets were later renamed in a numbered progression, with Pecan Street becoming Sixth Street. See: Annapolis Convention.. The east-west streets of the grid followed a progression uphill from the river and were named after trees native to the region, with Pecan Street as the main east-west thoroughfare.

Its Associated Press abbreviation is Md. Maryland was one of the thirteen colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution. The original north-south grid was bookended by West Street and East Street (now I-35). postal abbreviation is MD. The exception was the central thoroughfare Congress Avenue, which leads from the far south side of town over the river to the foot of the hill where the new Texas State Capitol was to be constructed. Its U.S. The grid survives nearly intact as the streets of present-day downtown Austin. The north-south streets of the grid were named for the rivers of Texas, following an east-west progression from Sabine Street to Rio Grande Street (Red River Street being "out of order" to the west of Sabine Street). Maryland is a state of the United States, one of the South Atlantic States (although often considered part of the Northeast or Mid-Atlantic States). A grid plan for the city streets was surveyed by Judge Edwin Waller (after whom Waller Creek was named).

See List of counties in Maryland. In 1839, Waterloo was chosen to become the capital of the new Republic of Texas, and the town was renamed Austin in honor of Stephen F. Austin. Towson – county seat of suburban Baltimore County. Austin, the "father of Texas", negotiated a peace treaty with the local Indians at the site of the present day Treaty Oak after several settlers were killed in raids. Salisbury – largest city and business center of Delmarva pennisula. They founded the village of Waterloo along the banks of the Colorado River. According to local folklore, Stephen F. Rockville – business center of affluent Montgomery County northwest of Washington. The first Anglo settlers arrived in the area in the 1830s when Texas was still part of Mexico.

Ocean City – very popular beach resort on Atlantic coastline. In the late 1700s the Spanish set up temporary missions in the area, later moving to San Antonio. Laurel – large suburban community directly between Baltimore and Washington on Interstate 95. Before the arrival of European settlers, the area around present-day Austin was inhabited for several hundred years by a mixture of Tonkawa, Comanche, and Lipan Apache Indians, who fished and hunted along the creeks, including present-day Barton Springs. Hagerstown – Largest community in 3 county Western Maryland region, has decaying industrial base. Austin is served by the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. Frederick – Western gateway to Appalachian Mountains, suburban center. Edward's University.

Columbia – Large unincorporated town managed by the Columbia Association. Other institutions of higher learning include Austin Community College, Concordia University, Huston-Tillotson University and St. suburb, home to the University of Maryland, College Park. Austin is home to The University of Texas at Austin, the flagship institution of The University of Texas System. College Park – D.C. It is also the self-proclaimed "live music capital of the world," with a vibrant live music scene revolving around many nightclubs on 6th Street and a yearly film/music/multimedia festival known as "South by Southwest." Austin City Limits, the longest-running concert music program on American television, is videotaped on the University of Texas campus. Baltimore – Most populous city; commercial and cultural hub. Residents of Austin are called "Austinites" and include a heady mix of educators and their students, politicians and lobbyists.

Annapolis – state capital, home of United States Naval Academy. The lakes also provide venues for boating, swimming, and other forms of recreation within several parks located on the lake shores. Non-Religious – 8%. To help control this runoff and to generate hydroelectric power, the Lower Colorado River Authority operates a series of dams that form the Texas Highland Lakes. Other Religions – 4%. Because the hills to the west are primarily limestone rock with a thin covering of topsoil, the city is subjected to frequent flash flooding from the excessive runoff caused by thunderstorms. Other Christian – 2%. The eastern part of the city is flat, whereas the western part and western suburbs consist of scenic rolling hills on the edge of the Texas Hill Country.

Roman Catholic – 25%. The city is also situated on the Balcones Fault, which, in much of Austin, runs roughly the same route as the MoPac expressway. Protestant – 58%. Town Lake, Lake Austin, and Lake Travis are all on the Colorado River. 2% Mixed race. Additionally, the foot of Lake Travis, including Mansfield Dam, is located within the city's limits. 0.3% American Indian. Long.

4% Asian. Austin is situated on the Colorado River, with three lakes within the city limits: Town Lake, Lake Austin, and Lake Walter E. 4.3% Hispanic. Its original name is honored by local business establishments such as Waterloo Ice House and Waterloo Records. 27.9% Black. Austin. 62.1% White non-Hispanic. Lamar renamed the city in honor of Stephen F.

Fort Detrick. In 1838, Mirabeau B. Webster Field. Austin was founded in 1835 and was first named Waterloo. Naval Air Station Patuxent River. The Austin metropolitan area is one of the fastest-growing in the United States and is home to more than 1.2 million people. Indian Head Naval Surface Weapons Center. Austin is the county seat of Travis County and is situated in Central Texas.

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