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| | Handbook of Texas Online: LIVINGSTON, TX |
 | | Livingston, the county seat of Polk County, is at the junction of U.S. highways 190 and 59, State Highway 146, and Farm Road 1316, seventy-five miles north of Houston in the southern part of the county. |
 | | Livingston has benefited from the growth of Houston, to which it is financially attuned. |
 | | The number of businesses and population in Livingston, the largest town in Polk County, grew accordingly, from 150 and 3,398 in the early 1960s to 260 and 4,928 by the mid-1980s. |
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