Official Name: | Tira, Texas |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Mapsize: | 250px |
Image Map1: | Hopkins County Tira.svg |
Mapsize1: | 250px |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Texas |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Hopkins |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Total Km2: | 3.73 |
Area Land Km2: | 3.67 |
Area Water Km2: | 0.06 |
Area Total Sq Mi: | 1.44 |
Area Land Sq Mi: | 1.42 |
Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.02 |
Population As Of: | 2020 |
Population Total: | 319 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Population Density Sq Mi: | auto |
Timezone: | Central (CST) |
Utc Offset: | -6 |
Timezone Dst: | CDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -5 |
Elevation Ft: | 469 |
Coordinates: | 33.3267°N -95.5697°W |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
Postal Code: | 75482 |
Area Code: | 903, 430 |
Blank Name: | FIPS code |
Blank Info: | 48-73124[2] |
Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank1 Info: | 1380666 |
Tira is a town in Hopkins County, Texas, United States. The population was 319 at the 2020 census.
Tira is located in northern Hopkins County at 33.3267°N -95.5697°W (33.326629, –95.569853).[3] Texas State Highway 19 runs through the western part of the town, leading north to Paris and south to Sulphur Springs, the Hopkins county seat. Tira is east of the dam at the outlet of Jim Chapman Lake (formerly known as Cooper Lake) and is 9miles by road northeast of the South Sulphur Unit of Cooper Lake State Park.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 3.7km2, of which 0.06sqkm, or 1.65%, are water.[4]
White (NH) | 274 | 85.89% | |
Black or African American (NH) | 9 | 2.82% | |
Native American or Alaska Native (NH) | 2 | 0.63% | |
Asian (NH) | 1 | 0.31% | |
Mixed/Multi-Racial (NH) | 10 | 3.13% | |
Hispanic or Latino | 23 | 7.21% | |
Total | 319 |
Tira is served by the North Hopkins Independent School District.