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Dawson County, formed in 1858 in what is now Kinney County and Uvalde County and abolished in 1866 (not to be confused with the present-day Dawson County). Encinal County, formed in 1856. Abolished in 1899 and annexed to Webb County. Foley County, formed in 1887 from Presidio County. Annexed in 1897 to Brewster County.
Physical geography. Texas covers a total area of 268,581 square miles (695,622 km 2). The longest straight-line distance is from the northwest corner of the panhandle to the Rio Grande river just below Brownsville, 801 miles (1,289 km). [1] The greatest east–west distance is 773 miles (1,244 km) from the extreme eastward bend in the Sabine ...
www.co.gonzales.tx.us. The Gonzales County Courthouse. The Second Empire style building was added to National Register of Historic Places in 1972. Gonzales County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas, adjacent to Greater Austin - San Antonio. As of the 2020 census, its population was 19,653. [ 1 ] The county is named for its county seat, the ...
UTC−5 (CDT) Congressional district. 10th. Website. www.co.grimes.tx.us. Grimes County is a county located in southeastern Texas, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 29,268. [1] The seat of the county is Anderson. [2] The county was formed from Montgomery County in 1846. [3]
www.huntcounty.net. Hunt County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 99,956. [ 1 ] Its county seat is Greenville. [ 2 ] The county is named for Memucan Hunt, Jr., the first Republic of Texas Minister to the United States from 1837 to 1838 and the third Texas Secretary of the Navy from 1838 to 1839. [ 3 ]
The county is named for Tennessee native Captain John Coffee Hays [11] of the Texas Rangers. San Marcos was named as the county seat. [12] The legislature established Blanco from part of Hays in 1858, but incorporated part of Comal into Hays. Risher and Hall Stage Lines controlled 16 of 31 passenger and mail lines in Texas. [5]
Tarrant County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas with a 2020 U.S. census population of 2,110,640, making it the third-most populous county in Texas and the 15th-most populous in the United States. Its county seat is Fort Worth. [1] Tarrant County, one of 26 counties created out of the Peters Colony, was established in 1849 and ...
Bell County, Texas (7 C, 17 P) Bexar County, Texas (7 C, 18 P) Blanco County, Texas (6 C, 7 P) Borden County, Texas (5 C, 4 P) Bosque County, Texas (6 C, 6 P) Bowie County, Texas (6 C, 14 P) Brazoria County, Texas (6 C, 18 P) Brazos County, Texas (7 C, 11 P) Brewster County, Texas (6 C, 17 P)