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The U.S. state of Texas is divided into 254 counties, more than any other U.S. state. [1] While only about 20% of Texas counties are generally located within the Houston—Dallas—San Antonio—Austin areas, they serve a majority of the state's population with approximately 22,000,000 inhabitants.
Buchel County (1887–1897, formed from part of Presidio County, absorbed by Brewster County) Dawson County (defunct), Texas (1858–1866, became parts of Uvalde and Kinney counties; not to be confused with present-day Dawson County) Davis County (1861–1871), reverted to previously named Cass County; Encinal County (1856–1899, absorbed by ...
Wegefarth County, Texas. Worth County, Texas. Categories: Texas counties. History of Texas. Former counties of the United States. Hidden category: Commons category link is on Wikidata.
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Perdido County, Texas. Perdido County (from the Spanish word for "lost") was the name of a now defunct county in Texas. Created in the 1820s, prior to the Texas Revolution, the county was all but forgotten in the post-revolution land grants and general confusion of the following decades. It was thought to be abolished in 1858, but was not ...
This article was split from List of museums in Texas. Replica of Judge Roy Bean office . The list of museums in West Texas encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related ...
e. Wegefarth County was a Texas county established on June 2, 1873, from Bexar and Young territories and abolished on August 21, 1876. The county shared boundaries with Hardeman County, Indian Territory, and with Greer County which was subject to a territorial dispute between Texas and the U.S. government which maintained that Greer County ...
January 3 – November 25, 1850. Named for. William Jenkins Worth. Seat. Valverde. Worth County was a Texas county which was established by the state legislature from territory previously belonging to Santa Fe County, Texas on January 3, 1850. Val Verde (later the site of the Civil War Battle of Valverde) [1] [2] was established as the county ...