Huntsville

Huntsville is a small city of about 45,000 residents, located in Walker County, part of the region of . Huntsville is famous as the home of Texas hero, General Sam Houston with an enormous statue of Sam Houston next to Interstate 45, it's famous as a prison town, and is also home to Sam Houston State University.
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  • Type: Town with 45,900 residents
  • Description: city in and county seat of Walker County, Texas, United States
  • Also known as: Huntsville, Texas” and “Huntsville, TX
  • Postal codes: 77320, 77340-77344, 77348, and 77349

Places of Interest

Highlights include Huntsville Unit and Sam Houston Memorial Museum.

Prison
Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville or , nicknamed "Walls Unit", is a Texas state prison located in Huntsville, Texas, United States.

Stadium
Elliott T. is a 14,000-seat multi-purpose stadium in Huntsville, Texas. The stadium has been home to the Sam Houston State University Sam Houston Bearkats football team since 1986.

Huntsville

Latitude
30.7235° or 30° 43′ 25″ north
Longitude
-95.5508° or 95° 33′ 3″ west
Population
45,900
Elevation
371 feet (113 metres)
IATA airport code
HTV
Open location code
8626PCFX+CM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151708513
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4699540
Wiki­data ID
Q864885
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Huntsville” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: هانتسفيل
  • Armenian: Հանթսվիլ
  • Azerbaijani: Hantsvill
  • Basque: Huntsville
  • Belarusian: Гантсвіль
  • Belarusian: Хантсвіл (Тэхас)
  • Belarusian: Хантсвіл
  • Catalan: Huntsville
  • Cebuano: Huntsville (kapital sa kondado sa Estados Unidos, Texas)
  • Cebuano: Huntsville
  • Chechen: Гантсвиль
  • Chinese: Huntsville
  • Chinese: 亨茨維爾
  • Chinese: 亨茨维尔
  • Croatian: Huntsville, Teksas
  • Croatian: Huntsville
  • Czech: Huntsville
  • Danish: Huntsville
  • Dutch: Huntsville
  • Egyptian Arabic: هانتسفيل
  • Finnish: Huntsville
  • French: Huntsville
  • German: Huntsville
  • Gilaki: هانتسویل
  • Greek: Χάντσβιλ
  • Haitian: Huntsville, Texas
  • Haitian: Huntsville
  • Hebrew: האנטסוויל
  • Hungarian: Huntsville
  • Irish: Huntsville, Texas
  • Irish: Huntsville
  • Italian: Huntsville
  • Japanese: ハンツヴィル
  • Japanese: ハンツヴィル市
  • Japanese: ハンツビル
  • Korean: 헌츠빌
  • Ladin: Huntsville
  • Lithuanian: Hantsvilis
  • Marathi: हंट्सव्हिल
  • Min Nan Chinese: Huntsville
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Huntsville
  • Norwegian: Huntsville
  • Persian: هانتسویل
  • Polish: Huntsville
  • Portuguese: Huntsville
  • Russian: Хантсвилл (Техас)
  • Russian: Хантсвилл
  • Serbian: Хантсвил
  • Serbo-Croatian: Huntsville, Texas
  • Serbo-Croatian: Huntsville
  • Silesian: Huntsville
  • Slovak: Huntsville
  • Slovenian: Huntsville
  • South Azerbaijani: هانتسویل
  • Spanish: Huntsville (Texas)
  • Spanish: Huntsville
  • Swedish: Huntsville, Texas
  • Swedish: Huntsville
  • Tatar: Гантсвиль
  • Turkish: Huntsville, Teksas
  • Turkish: Huntsville
  • Ukrainian: Гантсвілл
  • Ukrainian: Гантсвіль
  • Uzbek: Huntsville
  • Uzbek: Xantsvill
  • Uzbek: Ҳунцвилле
  • Vietnamese: Huntsville, Texas
  • Vietnamese: Huntsville
  • Volapük: Huntsville
  • Waray (Philippines): Huntsville, Texas
  • Waray (Philippines): Huntsville
  • Welsh: Huntsville, Texas
  • Welsh: Huntsville
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Huntsville”. Photo: Foeniz, CC BY-SA 4.0.