Texas — Config Review
Profile config
Villages ExistNo
Judicial Regions14
Athletic Sections4
School Districts20
Concepts (11)
Texas
Local NameTexas
Has Active GovernmentYes
Default Body NameState Legislature
Executive TitleGovernor
SubdivisionsCounties
Additional Subdivisions
Major CitiesHouston, San Antonio, Dallas, Austin, Fort Worth, El Paso, Arlington, Corpus Christi, Plano, Lubbock, Laredo, Irving
County
Local NameCounty
Has Active GovernmentYes
Default Body NameCommissioners Court
Executive TitleCounty Judge
Executive RequiredYes
SubdivisionsCities
Legislative CommitteesYes
Committees LabelCommittees
City
Local NameCity
Has Active GovernmentYes
Default Body NameCity Council
Executive TitleMayor
Governancecouncil-manager, strong-mayor
Governance Exceptions
Strong-MayorHouston
SubdivisionsNo
Independent School District
Local NameIndependent School District
Local AbbrevISD
Has Active GovernmentYes
Default Body NameBoard of Trustees
Education Service Center
Local NameEducation Service Center
Local AbbrevESC
Has Active GovernmentYes
Default Body NameESC Board
Region
Local NameRegion
Parent Org NameUIL
Has Active GovernmentNo
House District
Local NameHouse District
Local AbbrevHD
Has Active GovernmentNo
Senate District
Local NameSenate District
Local AbbrevSD
Has Active GovernmentNo
Congressional District
Local NameCongressional District
Local AbbrevCD
Has Active GovernmentNo
Court of Appeals District
Local NameCourt of Appeals District
Has Active GovernmentNo
Special District
Local NameSpecial District
Has Active GovernmentYes
Governance (2)
Council-Manager
Legislative CommitteesNo
Legislative DistrictsNo
Strong-Mayor
Legislative CommitteesYes
Committees LabelCommittees
Sources (5)
Counties
Urlhttps://maps.dot.state.tx.us/arcgis/rest/services/Boundaries/MapServer/1
ProviderTxDOT, public "Boundaries" MapServer (layer 1, "Texas Counties")
TypeArcGIS REST MapServer — query with /query?where=1=1&outFields=*&f=json
Noteverified 254 counties via returnCountOnly. No website field.
Field mapping (3)
CNTY NMname
FIPS NBRattributes.county_fips
CMPTRL NBRattributes.comptroller_county_number
Municipalities
Urlhttps://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/arcgis/rest/services/TIGERweb/tigerWMS_Current/MapServer/28
ProviderUS Census Bureau TIGERweb (Incorporated Places layer), filtered to STATE='48'
TypeArcGIS REST MapServer
Noteverified 1,230 incorporated places (close to the Texas Municipal League's reported 1,224 figure). No Texas-specific live API was found — data.texas.gov has no comprehensive municipalities dataset, and TML only offers custom CSV/Excel exports on request (database@tml.org), not a public API. TIGERweb is the only live, queryable source found.
Field mapping (4)
GEOIDjurisdiction_identifiers (scheme "census_geoid")
PLACEattributes.place_fips
NAME (Or BASENAME)name
LSADCconcept_id — the legal/statistical descriptor distinguishes city/town/village
School Districts
Urlhttps://services2.arcgis.com/5MVN2jsqIrNZD4tP/arcgis/rest/services/Map/FeatureServer/0
ProviderTexas Legislative Council, built from TEA data (dataset "School Districts 2025" — discovered via TEA's public DCAT catalog feed at https://schoolsdata2-tea-texas.opendata.arcgis.com/api/feed/dcat-us/1.1.json; TEA republishes this annually under a year-suffixed name, so a real ingestion script should resolve the current year's URL from that DCAT feed rather than hardcoding one)
TypeArcGIS REST FeatureServer
Noteverified 1,017 districts. No explicit county or website field — county is derivable from the CDN's first 3 digits (TEA county code).
Field mapping (2)
DISTRICT Cjurisdiction_identifiers (scheme "tea_cdn") — 6-digit County-District Number, TEA's BEDS-equivalent
NAME (Or NAME20)name
Educational Region
Urlhttps://services2.arcgis.com/5MVN2jsqIrNZD4tP/arcgis/rest/services/ESC2024/FeatureServer/0
Providersame TEA open-data org, dataset "ESC2024" (year-suffixed like the districts dataset above)
TypeArcGIS REST FeatureServer
Noteverified exactly 20 regions.
Field mapping (3)
ESC REGIONlocal_abbrev / identifier (1-20 region number)
CITYhost city
WEBSITEwebsite
Population
Statusnot yet ingested
Recommended SourceUS Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) — https://api.census.gov/data/{year}/pep/population — joins on the county FIPS already captured by the counties source above.