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Texas County, MissouriTexas County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
Etymology - Origin of County NameNamed for the Republic of Texas. Demographics:County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts History of Texas CountyThe county is located in the south-central and slightly eastern section of the state, in the second tier of counties from the Arkansas line. The region was first settled by Boone, Paddy, Truesdale and others. It was defined as a county in an act approved February 17, 1843, and named Ashley County, after William Henry Ashley, fur trader who later became first lieutenant governor of Missouri . On February 14, 1845 an act was approved changing Ashley to Texas in honor of the Repuiblic, later the State of Texas. Many men from the section emigrated to Texas, and many were members of Doniphan's force on his march to Texas. Perhaps the fact that the county is the largest in the state, just as Texas is the largest state in the Union, had something to do with the choice. Texas is an Indian word used by the Hosinai tribes of Angelina and Upper Niches Valley, Texas, to mean "friend." It also means "ally." The word was extended by the Spaniards to include the tirbes and finally the territory in which they lived. (HIST. TEXAS, p. 430; Campbell (1873); MISSOURI H.R., "Some More Lost Counties of Missouri," p. 170, vol. 27, Jan., 1933; Hodge, p. 738)
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The history of our nation was a prolonged struggle to define
the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local.
And the names given the counties, our most locally based jurisdictions,
reflects the "characteristic features of this country!"
But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history. Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally, act locally." |
