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We would like to provide the residents of  Kountze  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Kountze Home page. The Kountze Home page provides as much information as possible on Kountze. Knowing Kountze’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Kountze’s Home page, you will also find Kountze’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Kountze has a population of 2047. 42.7% of Kountze’s inhabitants are Male, and 57.3 are female. 37.8% of Kountze is married and 68% own their own home. The Average Home price is $100,319, and the average rent is $857. Household median income in Kountze is $56,573, and the individual median income is $33,182. Kountze’s Ethnic is the following: White(80.4%), Black(18.8%), Hispanic(8.4%), Multiple(0.7%), Other(0.1%).


Kountze ( koonts) is a city in and the county seat of Hardin County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,981 at the 2020 census. The city is part of the Beaumont–Port Arthur Metropolitan Statistical Area. Kountze was originally established as a railroad town in 1881. The city was named for Herman and Augustus Kountze, financial backers of the Sabine and East Texas Railroad.


The seat of Hardin County, Kountze boasts an area of more than 89% forested lush green terrain. The local area produces over 3.5 million board feet (8,300 m³) of lumber annually. Kountze describes itself as "The Gateway to the Big Thicket". The thicket is a vast area of tangled, often impenetrable woods, streams, and marshes that occupies a 50-mile (80 km) circle of southeastern Texas, about 25 miles (40 km) north of Beaumont.


The cradle of the United States' oil industry is found in the region. Now portions of the thicket are nationally protected as the Big Thicket National Preserve. In 1991, Kountze became the first American city with a Muslim mayor, an African American named Charles Bilal.


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