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Cotulla ( 〔http://www.texastripper.com/pronounce/locations-c.html〕) is a city in and the county seat of La Salle County, Texas, United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 The population was 3,614 at the 2000 census. The whole of La Salle County had 6,886 persons in the 2010 census.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=La Salle County, Texas )〕 In June 2014, Cotulla "self-declared" its population at 7,000, based on utility connections alone.〔Gabriela A. Trevino, "Economic Development: Oil field riches: Cotulla gets boost from Eagle Ford Shale money", ''Laredo Morning Times'', June 9, 2014, pp. 1, 12A〕 ==History== Polish immigrant Joseph Cotulla, who was reared in Silesia, then a part of Prussia, migrated to the United States in the 1850s. He joined the Union Army in Brownsville, Texas. He lived in Atascosa County but arrived in La Salle County in 1868〔 to establish what became a large ranching operation. After learning that the International-Great Northern Railroad intended to lay tracks in La Salle County, he worked to establish the town which bears his name. In 1881, Cotulla donated 120 acres of his land to the railroad, and in 1882, a depot was constructed there. In 1883, the town was granted a post office. The same year, Cotulla became the county seat by special election. Joseph Cotulla's great-grandson, William Lawrence Cotulla (born c. 1936), a former storekeeper in Cotulla, is a rancher in La Salle, Dimmit, and Webb counties. In a 2013 interview with the ''Laredo Morning Times'', William Cotulla noted the community of his birth has changed completely in less than eighty years, having gone through several phases, beginning with emphasis on farming, then ranching, thereafter hunting leases, and now petroleum and natural gas through the Eagle Ford Shale boom.〔Ricardo R. Villarreal, "City experiences tremendous growth, activity due to oil and gas production", ''Laredo Morning Times'', June 29, 2013, pp. 1, 12A〕 On June 28, 2013, the Texas Historical Commission, the United States Department of the Interior, and the National Register of Historic Places designed downtown Cotulla as a significant part of Texas history with the unveiling of an historic marker. In 2006, Cotulla had been designated as a Texas Main Street community.〔 City manager Lazaro "Larry" Dovalina (born 1947), who formerly held the same position in Laredo, compared the impact of the recent growth of Cotulla to the arrival of the railroad in the late 19th century. Cotulla is believed to have tripled in population since the 2010 census, with possibly 12,000 residents in 2013. With Eagle Ford Shale and many jobs in the oil and gas fields, Cotulla has seen the building of new hotels, restaurants, truck stops, and refineries. Many older buildings downtown are being updated and renovated for other kinds of use. Dovalina reported that the ad valorem property tax base in Cotulla has increased from $52 million in 2009 to $127 million in 2013. The growth has made affordable housing a premium in the community.〔Ricardo R. Villarreal, "Cotulla, Texas: Phenomenal Growth", ''Laredo Morning Times'', June 30, 2013, pp. 1, 15A〕 In 1973, two railroad locomotives collided in Cotulla, and three people were killed as a result. In 2008, the area about Cotulla burned in a huge grass fire. With continuing growth from the Eagle Ford Shale deposit, Cotulla houses the largest sand fracking facility in North America. Cotulla falls within the second largest oil-producing region of the United States. The oil boom has increased sales tax collections in Cotulla from $445,000 in 2009 to more than $3 million in 2013. The city has sixteen hotels and seven others under construction. The hotel-motel tax of 7 percent is less than that in larger surrounding cities. Cotulla is seeking to attract Wal-Mart, H-E-B, and other companies once it can show that its growth is sustainable.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cotulla, Texas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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