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Texas is divided into 254 counties, more than any other U.S. state Texas was originally divided into municipalities, a unit of local government under Spanish and Mexican rule. When the Republic of Texas gained its independence in 1836, there were 23 municipalities, which became the original Texas counties. Many of these would later be divided into new counties. The most recent county to be created was Kenedy County in 1921. The most recent county to be organized was Loving County in 1931

Bailey County, Texas

Bailey County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

County Seat: Muleshoe
Year Organized: 1876
Square Miles: 827

Court House:

300 South 1st Street
County Courthouse
Muleshoe, TX 79347-3621

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Peter James Bailey, a defender of the Alamo

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

History

Bailey County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. Its county seat is Muleshoe. Bailey is named for Peter James Bailey, a defender of the Alamo.

The county was marked off from Bexar County in 1876 and named for Peter J. Bailey,^qv an Alamo hero. Bailey and twenty-one other counties newly formed at the time were attached to Jack County for judicial purposes. In 1881 jurisdiction of Bailey County was transferred from Jack to Baylor County; then, in 1887, to Hale County; and in 1892 to Castro County. Settlement of Bailey County did not come early, since the XIT Ranch^qv held most of its land from 1882 until the division and sale of the ranch in 1901.

More at Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. "," http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/BB/hcb1.html (accessed November 4, 2008).

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 827 square miles (2,143 km²), of which, 827 square miles (2,141 km²) of it is land and 1 square miles (2 km²) of it (0.08%) is water.

Neighboring Counties:

Parmer County (north)
Lamb County (east)
Cochran County (south)
Roosevelt County, New Mexico (west)
Curry County, New Mexico (northwest)

Cities and Towns:

- Muleshoe (County Seat)

city

Incorporated Area

County Resources:

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Online High Schools

County Resource Guide

Counties: US Map

The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic features of our 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."

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