Commerce, Texas Commerce, Texas View of the Texas A&M University Commerce ground View of the Texas A&M University Commerce ground Location of Commerce, Texas Location of Commerce, Texas Website City of Commerce Commerce is a Texas town/city located in Hunt County, Texas, United States, situated on the easterly edge of North Texas, in the heart of the Texas Blackland Prairies, and the northeastern part of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex.
Commerce is the second biggest city in Hunt County with a populace of 8,599 inhabitants as of 2014.
The non-urban city is home to Texas A&M University Commerce, a primary 4-year University of over 12,000 students that has been in the town since 1894.
Commerce is one of the smallest college suburbs in Texas.
See also: History of Texas A&M University Commerce The town of Commerce was formed when two merchants titled William Jernigan and Josiah Jackson established a trading post and mercantile store positioned where the present day downtown region is.
The town was established in 1872 and titled Commerce due to the grow economic activity, and cotton fields and ideal farm and ranch lands between the Middle and South Sulphur rivers on the rich, black gumbo prairie in northeast Hunt County.
Mayo, a college educator, moved East Texas Normal College from the Northeast Texas town of Cooper to Commerce after the initial school in Cooper was finished in a fire.
Mayo continued as president of the college, now known as Texas A&M University Commerce, until his death in 1917 and is buried on the ground grounds.
Commerce was titled the "Bois d'Arc Capital of Texas" (pronounced "bow-dark") by the Texas Legislature because of its locale in the geographic center of the indigenous range of the bois d'arc tree.
Commerce is positioned at 33 14 42 N 95 54 0 W (33.244959, 95.899957). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 6.5 square miles (17 km2), of which, 6.5 square miles (17 km2) of it is territory and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2) of it (0.92%) is water.
Commerce has hot, humid and dry Summers, typical of much of Texas and above average Spring temperatures.
Commerce is served by the following Highways: Texas 11.svg Texas State Highway 11 An east-west route through commerce that joins with Sulphur Springs and Winnsboro to the east, and Wolfe City, Whitewright and Sherman to the west.
Runs concurrent with Loop 178 along the south side of the college on a street known locally as "Culver Street" and then runs concurrent with highway 24 before heading west towards Wolfe City.
Texas 24.svg Texas State Highway 24 Major north-south route that runs through the town/city of Commerce and through the University.
Most of the primary businesses of Commerce line highway 24.
Highway 24 is also the only highway in Commerce that has a Frontage Road.
Texas 50.svg Texas State Highway 50 Serves the northwest part of Commerce, especially the region by Airport Sign.svg Commerce Municipal Airport.
Texas 224.svg Texas State Highway 224 Is the Commerce-to-Greenville route, as it is the only highway that directly joins the two biggest cities in Hunt county.
Texas Loop 178.svg Texas State Highway Loop 178 a 3/4 loop that runs a semi-circle around Commerce, runs concurrent with Highway 11 along Culver Street south of the college before the junction with highway 24, after the junction with highway 24 it continues west towards highway 224.
Texas FM 71.svg Texas Farm to Market Road 71 Serves the northeast non-urban area of Commerce and continues into Hopkins County going though some of the lesser rural communities.
Texas FM 2874.svg Texas Farm to Market Road 2874 Heads toward some unincorporated parts of Hunt County from a Junction with highway 224.
Texas FM 3218.svg Texas Farm to Market Road 3218 Serves the southeast region of Commerce, running through a small industrialized and non-urban area of Commerce.
Texas 224.svg Business 224 A company route of highway 224 through Commerce along Live Oak Street, Main Street and Park Street.
Texas 11.svg Business 11 A company route of highway 11 through Commerce along Maple Street, Park Street, and Wolfe City Drive, this route was formerly a part of highway 11 before it was rerouted to run concurrent with Loop 178 and Highway 24.
Commerce is the proposed end in the third and final stage for the proposed Blacklands Turnpike, a toll road that would run from far northeastern Dallas County, through Collin and Rockwall counties, as a faster way to get from Dallas to the primary cities in Hunt County.
Commerce is served by Airport Sign.svg Commerce Municipal Airport.
A enhance transit called The Connection serves Commerce and all of Hunt County.
Commerce High School is the only high school in Commerce, they are known as the Commerce Tigers and compete at the 3 - A level in UIL sports.
The Commerce Tigers compete in football (men), volleyball (women), basketball (men and women), softball (women), baseball (men), track and field (men and women), cross nation (men and women), powerlifting (men and women), tennis (men and women), and golf (men and women).
The Commerce Tigers football team has two state titles from 1999 and 2001.
The A&M-Commerce Lions compete in: football (men), volleyball (women), basketball (men and women), soccer (women), softball (women), golf (men and women), track and field (men and women), and cross nation (men and women).
Football is very prominent among the college as well as the town, as fans from encircling cities including Greenville and Sulphur Springs will come out to support the A&M-Commerce Lions football team, and the average attendance at football games is over 6,000.
KETR serves as the airways broadcast for the town/city of Commerce, Texas A&M University Commerce, Hunt County, and encircling cities.
Commerce High School football games are broadcast on KETR, as well as A&M Commerce Lions football and basketball games.
Commerce inhabitants have three newspapers that serve the city, The Dallas Morning News, (Daily) The Greenville Herald-Banner, (Daily) and the Commerce Journal.
The City of Commerce is served by the Commerce Independent School District.
The town/city of Commerce is home to Texas A&M University Commerce (formerly known as East Texas State University), a fully accredited and ranked college that offers over 100 different majors, with an enrollment of 12,302 students, 7,808 undergraduates, and 4,494 graduate students.
A&M-Commerce was established in 1889 at its initial locale in Cooper, Texas, but moved to Commerce after burning down in 1894.
The college is ranked #1 in the state of Texas for teaching education and 13th in the nation, in addition to having a highly ranked graduate school.
The college also remains as the fifth longest continuous operating college in the state of Texas.
Due to being a non-urban college town with adjacency to Dallas, Commerce has an economy that remained steady for years with gradual increases with new businesses opening and the rest being renovated.
5 City of Commerce 85 The Northeast Texas Children's Museum in Commerce The town/city of Commerce is home to the Northeast Texas Children's Museum.
Jim Chapman Lake (formerly known as Cooper Lake) is positioned roughly 25 minutes away from Commerce, between Cooper and Sulphur Springs.
The most notable landmark of the town/city of Commerce is the high-rise 12 story building positioned on the A&M-Commerce campus.
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