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Texas Counties
 Click Image to Enlarge Texas CountiesTexas 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 |
Brazos County, TexasBrazos County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
Etymology - Origin of County Namethe Brazos River (along with Brazoria County) Demographics:County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts County HistoryBrazos County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas in the Central Texas region. The county seat is Bryan. Brazos is named for the Brazos River, along with Brazoria County. Navasoto County, established in 1841, was renamed Brazos County in 1842. The territory that is now Brazos County was included in Stephen F. Austin'sqv
second colony and became part of Washington Municipality under the Mexican government. Colonists who sought
plantation sites on the Brazos between 1821 and 1831 included Elliot McNeil Millican, Richard Carter,qqv
James H. Evetts, Melvan Lanham, Lee C. Smith, and Mordecai Boon. In 1837 most of the area of present-day Brazos
County was included in Washington County. The Brazos River, which bisected the latter, proved a serious obstacle to
county government, and a new county, Navasota, was formed in January 1841. The first court, with Judge R. E. B.
Baylorqv presiding, was held later that year in the home of Joseph Ferguson,
fourteen miles west of the site of present Bryan. The county seat, named Boonville for Mordecai Boon, was located on
John Austin'sqv league and was surveyed by Hiram Hanoverqv
in 1841. In January of the following year Navasota County was renamed Brazos County. The 1850 census showed 466
whites and 148 black slaves in the county. Of the approximately 176,000 acres in farms at that time, less than 2,000
acres was cleared for crops. Farmers concentrated on growing corn and a bit of cotton. The county remained
overwhelmingly rural in the 1850s; only two families lived in the county seat in 1852, and only two post offices,
Boonville and Millican, operated in the county in 1856. GeographyAccording to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 590 square miles (1,529 kmē), of which, 586
square miles (1,517 kmē) is land and 5 square miles (12 kmē) (0.76%) is water. Neighboring Counties:
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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." |
