Same city name. The county column is the difference.
You searched Longview because one city name was given one rate. Longview in Gregg County is 8.25%. Longview in Harrison County is 7.75%. Both use a 1.5% city tax. Kilgore splits the same way between Gregg and Rusk. No transit line is on those rows. There is no Longview office to visit.
The city entry places Longview in eastern Gregg County and western Harrison County. It says the East Texas oilfield, discovered in the early 1930s, saved the town, and that Longview sat several miles outside the field and stayed the business center. After the war, Robert G. LeTourneau opened a manufacturing plant for earth-moving equipment and helped turn Harmon General Hospital into LeTourneau Technical Institute. Gregg's early twenty-first century list is oil, manufacturing, tourism, agribusiness, and lignite, with cattle, horses, hay, and nursery crops. Harrison's list for that period is oil and gas, lumber, and pottery, with cattle, hay, and poultry. Rusk is outlying. Henderson is the seat, and the county entry records the East Texas oilfield opening from the Daisy Bradford well. Upshur is outlying. Gilmer is the seat, and the entry says the northern limits of that oilfield reached the county in 1931. Gregg County is central. Harrison County, Rusk County, and Upshur County are outlying.
Read the city twice. Longview in Gregg County is city tax 1.5%, county tax 0.5%, no transit, combined 8.25%. Longview in Harrison County is city tax 1.5%, county tax 0, no transit, combined 7.75%. Kilgore in Gregg County is 8.25% with county tax 0.5%, and Kilgore in Rusk County is 7.75% with county tax 0, both on a 1.5% city tax and no transit. Marshall in Harrison County is city tax 2%, county tax 0, no transit, combined 8.25%. Gilmer in Upshur County is city tax 1.5%, county tax 0.5%, no transit, combined 8.25%.
Nothing in those rows is a transit authority. The miss is the county column, not a bus charge.
Counties: Gregg (central); Harrison (outlying); Rusk (outlying); Upshur (outlying).
Gregg, Harrison, Rusk, and Upshur are four appraisal districts. Business personal property renditions are due April 15 where the property sits. Longview property in Gregg and Longview property in Harrison are two renditions.
State sales tax is 6.25%. Longview in Gregg County is city tax 1.5%, county tax 0.5%, no transit, combined 8.25%. Longview in Harrison County is city tax 1.5%, county tax 0, no transit, combined 7.75%. Kilgore in Gregg County is 8.25% and Kilgore in Rusk County is 7.75%, both city tax 1.5% and no transit. Marshall in Harrison County is city tax 2%, county tax 0, no transit, combined 8.25%.
The franchise report is due May 15. Texas has no state income tax. The combined cap is 8.25%. The permit sets the sales-tax calendar.
People say Longview and mean one rate. The city page puts the town in eastern Gregg County and western Harrison County. Longview in Gregg County is city tax 1.5% and county tax 0.5%, total 8.25%, no transit. Longview in Harrison County is the same 1.5% city tax with the county column empty, total 7.75%, no transit. Kilgore in Gregg County is 8.25% with a 0.5% county tax. Kilgore in Rusk County is 7.75% with no county tax. Both Kilgore rows keep the 1.5% city tax and name no transit.
Marshall, seat of Harrison County, is not the Longview row in that county. Marshall is city tax 2%, county tax 0, no transit, total 8.25%. Hallsville in Harrison County matches Marshall: city tax 2%, county tax 0, total 8.25%. White Oak in Gregg County matches Longview's Gregg row: city tax 1.5%, county tax 0.5%, total 8.25%. Gilmer in Upshur County is city tax 1.5%, county tax 0.5%, no transit, total 8.25%.
The East Texas oilfield, found in the early 1930s, is why the city page says the town survived, even though Longview sat several miles outside the field. LeTourneau's earth-moving plant and the institute that grew from Harmon General Hospital are on that page. Gregg's later list is oil, manufacturing, visitors, agribusiness, and lignite, plus cattle, horses, hay, and nursery crops. Harrison County's list is oil and gas, lumber, and pottery, plus cattle, hay, and poultry. A nursery invoice in Gregg County and a pottery invoice in Harrison County are two county columns. Oil still in the ground is unsold. Lignite and hay do not pick which Longview row was rung.
A trade other than the plant, the nursery, or a Marshall counter starts on the industry list.
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Sources:
Handbook of Texas: Gregg County
Handbook of Texas: Harrison County
Handbook of Texas: Rusk County
Handbook of Texas: Upshur County
County membership is the OMB 2023 delineation supplied for this project. City rates are the July 2026 Texas Comptroller city-rate file. Longview in Harrison County is the city row at 7.75%. Marshall and Hallsville in that county are 8.25%.