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De Leon, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000): 2433
Housing Units (2000): 1127
Land area (2000): 2.070403 sq. miles (5.362318 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.070403 sq. miles (5.362318 sq. km)
FIPS code: 19672
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 32.109746 N, 98.538488 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 76444
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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De León (surname)

__NOTOC__ De León or de León or De Leon is a Spanish origin surname, often times toponymic, in which case it may possibly indicate an ultimate family origin in the Kingdom of León or the later Province of León. The name may refer to:

Usage examples of "de leon".

I am a man of Tervas de San Campos in the province of Valladolid, where Don Juan Ponce de Leon also was born less than one year after I was, and he and I played together as children and were friends all through our youth.

This, however, did not absolutely unfit him for service, and in April 1572 he joined Manuel Ponce de Leon's company of Lope de Figueroa's regiment, in which, it seems probable, his brother Rodrigo was serving, and shared in the operations of the next three years, including the capture of the Goletta and Tunis.

Lusitania had a Viriatus, Rome a Caesar, Carthage a Hannibal, Greece an Alexander, Castile a Count Fernan Gonzalez, Valencia a Cid, Andalusia a Gonzalo Fernandez, Estremadura a Diego Garcia de Paredes, Jerez a Garci Perez de Vargas, Toledo a Garcilaso, Seville a Don Manuel de Leon, to read of whose valiant deeds will entertain and instruct the loftiest minds and fill them with delight and wonder.

Second modern Don Manuel de Leon, once the glory and honour of Spanish knighthood!

As soon as she got rid of this blasted gag she'd tell this brute she'd never even heard of his Miss Carlotta De Leon.

I went to school with you at Miss Henrietta de Leon's, and my name was Mary Miller.

Marcos de Leon, we have to send him a tiger as a gift, he had read, written in his own hand, without the slightest idea of who he was, feeling that there was no punishment more humiliating or less deserved for a man than betrayal by his own body, he had begun to glimpse it long before the immemorial times of Jos&eacute.