Question: When Texas was admitted to the Union in 1845, its original borders included portions of how many other future states?
Answer: Five. When Texas became a state in 1845, it claimed portions of the future states of Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming. Texas relinquished these claims in the Compromise of 1850 in exchange for $10 million from the federal government to pay outstanding debt. Today, one of the counties in the Oklahoma panhandle is Texas County, and there is a creek in Wyoming named Texas Creek.
