Hunt County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 99,956. Its county seat is Greenville. 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. 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.
The Hunt County Courthouse in Greenville
Heritage House on the campus of Texas A&M University–Commerce
A Connection bus in Greenville
Hunt Regional Medical Center in Greenville
Greenville is a city in Hunt County, Texas, United States, approximately 50 miles (80 km) northeast of Dallas, Texas and 52 miles (84 km) northwest of Canton, Texas. It is the county seat and largest city of Hunt County. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 28,164.
Lee Street in downtown Greenville
Cotton scene, public square, Greenville, Texas (postcard, c. 1908)
The Hunt County cotton exhibit at the Audie Murphy American Cotton Museum
The Northeast Texas Farmers Co-op Sabine Valley Feeds mill in Greenville