Kilgore, Texas, rose from a small rail town to oil boom fame as the Oil Capital of Texas and the World’s Richest Acre, with stars on downtown oil derricks still lighting the skyline.
Incomes in this Texas county average around $300,000.
And if you're thinking that's gotta be near one of the metro areas like Dallas or Houston, you're dead wrong. This pile of riches has landed in a place you'd never expect. And see how Angelina County compares.
An assessment by the United States Geological Survey has found that Texas could be sitting atop 20 billion barrels of oil, 1.6 billion barrels of natural gas liquids, and 16 trillion cubic feet of associated natural gas.
We've got lots of home builders, truck drivers, barbecue chefs, and CEOs in Texas, but there's one job that's overly popular compared to all the others.