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Jasper is the county seat and largest city of Jasper County in Deep East Texas, about 40 miles west of the Texas–Louisiana state line.

The Jasper area was settled around 1824 by John Bevil in what was then Mexican Texas, and by 1830 about thirty families lived in the settlement, then known as Snow River.

Jasper County was created as a municipality of Mexico in 1834 and organized as a county of the Republic of Texas in 1837; it is named for William Jasper, a hero of the American Revolutionary War.

Jasper had 6,884 residents in the 2020 census, down from 7,590 in 2010, and its population peaked at 8,141 back in 1990.

Jasper has about 3,301 households with an average of only 2.12 people per household — among the smallest household sizes of any Texas city its size.

Jasper is a racially diverse small city: about 45% of its residents were Black in the 2020 census, alongside a large white population and a growing Hispanic community.

U.S. Routes 190 and 96 cross just south of Jasper's city center, making the town a highway crossroads for Deep East Texas.

Jasper anchors a county of about 32,980 people spread across 970 square miles of East Texas.