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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

Borden County, Texas

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

County Seat: Gail
Year Organized: 1876
Square Miles: 899

Court House:

P. O. Box 156
County Courthouse
Gail, TX 79738-0156

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Gail Borden, Jr., businessman, publisher, surveyor, and inventor of condensed milk

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

History

Borden County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. Its county seat is Gail. Gail and Borden County are named for Gail Borden, Jr., businessman, publisher, surveyor, and inventor of condensed milk.

Comanches hunted buffalo in the region before white settlement. It was within the range of the Penateka band, also called the Honey-Eaters or Wasps, the largest and best-known Comanche band. The Penatekas led the advance into the southern plains in the eighteenth century after the people, a segment of the northern Shoshones, learned the use of Spanish horses and transformed themselves from impoverished root and plant gatherers to hunters. Settlers were not attracted to the area that is now Borden County until the end of the nineteenth century. It was too distant from the United States Army's frontier outposts to be safe even after the Civil War, ^qv and it seemed too dry to sustain ranching and farming. The county was marked off in 1876 from Bosque County and named for Gail Borden, Jr., ^qv a newspaper publisher and organizer of the Republic of Texas, ^qv and a surveyor who helped lay out the site of Houston and prepared the first topographical map of Texas.

More at Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. "," http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/BB/hcb9.html (accessed November 4, 2008).

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 906 square miles (2,347 km²), of which, 899 square miles (2,328 km²) of it is land and 7 square miles (19 km²) of it (0.80%) is water.

Neighboring Counties:

Garza County (north)
Scurry County (east)
Mitchell County (southeast)
Howard County (south)
Dawson County (west)
Lynn County (northwest)

Cities and Towns:

- Gail (County Seat)

County Resources:

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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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