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Cash Offers for Tyler Car Sellers

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Geography of Tyler

Tyler is the county seat of Smith County, sitting roughly 100 miles east of Dallas and about 38 miles from Longview, with Interstate 20 running along its north edge and U.S. Highway 69 running north-south through the center of town. With a population near 112,219 as of 2024 — up from 105,995 at the 2020 census — Tyler is the largest city in Northeast Texas and serves as the region's commercial and medical hub.

Free towing is included anywhere in Tyler and the surrounding area. You can find more about local services on the City of Tyler's official website.

History of Tyler

Tyler was founded on April 11, 1846, and named for President John Tyler in recognition of his support for annexing Texas into the United States. Its early economy relied on agriculture and logging before the city transitioned into rose cultivation by the 1920s, a shift that would define its identity for the next century. Everything changed on October 3, 1930, when wildcatter "Dad" Joiner's Daisy Bradford No. 3 well blew in nearby Rusk County, opening the East Texas Oil Field — the largest oil reservoir in the contiguous United States — and turning Tyler into a boomtown almost overnight during the depths of the Great Depression.

Culture of Tyler

Tyler's economy today is built on healthcare and regional commerce. CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances Health System, headquartered in Tyler, employs about 5,000 people across eight hospitals and 82 clinics in East Texas, and UT Health East Texas employs roughly 3,500 more — together making healthcare the city's largest employment sector at an estimated 25,000 direct jobs. Brookshire Grocery Company is headquartered in Tyler, and the city is home to The University of Texas at Tyler Health Science Center, the seventh medical school in the UT System, established to address East Texas's physician shortage. Tyler is also nationally known as the "Rose Capital of America," home to the 14-acre Tyler Municipal Rose Garden — the largest municipal rose garden in the U.S., with over 38,000 rose bushes — and host to the Texas Rose Festival every October since 1933.

On the night of April 12, 2022, a severe squall line cut a 1.1-mile path of straight-line wind damage — confirmed by the National Weather Service at over 100 mph — through Tyler's historic Azalea District, Mid-Town, and Hospital District, downing roughly 60 power lines and toppling trees onto at least 14 structures.