Texas's 5th congressional district
Texas's 5th congressional district of the United States House of Representatives is in an area that includes a northeast portion of the City of Dallas, Dallas County including Mesquite plus a number of smaller suburban, exurban and rural counties south and east of Dallas, including Anderson, Cherokee, Henderson, Van Zandt, and Kaufman. As of the 2000 census, the 5th district represents 651,620 people.
Image: John Hancock (Texas)
Image: Giddings
Image: George Washington Jones (Texas Congressman)
Image: James W. Throckmorton Brady Handy
Dallas County is the second-most populous county in the U.S. state of Texas with a 2020 U.S. census of 2,613,539, making it the ninth-most populous county in the country. Dallas County is included in the Dallas-Arlington-Fort Worth metropolitan statistical area—colloquially referred to as the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. Municipal expansion within Dallas County has blurred the geographic lines between cities and between neighboring counties.
Image: Dallas County Courthouse with Texas Flag
Image: Irving Convention Center View of Las Colinas
Image: lossy page 1 Dallas Hall on the campus of Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas LCCN2015630915.tif
Former Dallas County Courthouse
