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Texas Counties

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Texas Counties

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

Cherokee County, Texas

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

County Seat: Rusk
Year Organized: 1846
Square Miles: 1,052

Court House:

520 North Main Street
County Courthouse
Rusk, TX 75785-1334

Etymology - Origin of County Name

the Cherokee Native American tribe

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Cherokee County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. It is named for the Cherokee Native American tribe. The seat of the county is Rusk

Rapid settlement began in 1834. The Houston-Forbes treaty (see FORBES, JOHN) of February 23, 1836, seemingly assured Cherokee neutrality, but the rejection of the treaty by the Texas Senate and the increased encroachment of settlers on Indian land led to violence. On October 5, 1838, Indians massacred members of the Isaac Killough family at their farm northwest of the site of present Jacksonville (see KILLOUGH MASSACRE). This led directly to the Cherokee War^qv of 1839 and the expulsion of all Indians from the county. White settlers quickly occupied the abandoned Indian farms, and the communities of Pine Town, Lockranzie, Linwood, and Cook's Fort developed. Cherokee County was marked off from Nacogdoches County on April 11, 1846, and was organized on July 13 of that year, with the town of Rusk as the county seat. Only one family lived at Rusk then.

More at Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. "," http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/CC/hcc10.html (accessed November 4, 2008).

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,062 square miles (2,750 km²), of which, 1,052 square miles (2,725 km²) of it is land and 10 square miles (25 km²) of it (0.92%) is water.

Neighboring Counties:

Smith County (north)
Rusk County (northeast)
Nacogdoches County (east)
Angelina County (southeast)
Houston County (southwest)
Anderson County (west)
Henderson County (northwest)

Cities and Towns:

- Alto	town	Incorporated Area
- Cuney	town	Incorporated Area
- Gallatin	city	Incorporated Area
- Jacksonville	city	Incorporated Area
- New Summerfield	city	Incorporated Area
- Reklaw	city	Incorporated Area
- Rusk (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Wells	town	Incorporated Area

County Resources:

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County Resource Guide

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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