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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

Cochran County, Texas

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

County Seat: Morton
Year Organized: 1876
Square Miles: 775

Court House:

100 North Main Street
County Courthouse
Morton, TX 79346-2500

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Robert E. Cochran, a defender of the Alamo

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Cochran County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. Cochran is named for Robert E. Cochran, a defender of the Alamo. The seat of the county is Morton.

In 1876 Cochran County was formed by the Texas legislature from land previously assigned to Bexar and Young counties. It was a land of grass, sand hills, mesquite, jackrabbits, coyotes, bison, and pronghorn antelope. Until the 1920s, when farmers began to move into the area, the county's economy was dominated by ranches; the huge XIT Ranch^qv controlled much of the land. In 1879 and 1880, the Capitol Reservation was surveyed, and in 1885 its land title passed to the XIT, which covered about 3,000,000 acres of land in the region. In 1887 XIT manager A. G. Boyce^qv divided the XIT into seven divisions; Cochran County was within the southernmost division (known as Las Casas Amarillas, or Yellow Houses). The Yellow House division was used as the XIT's breeding range.

More at Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. "," http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/CC/hcc13.html (accessed November 4, 2008).

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 775 square miles (2,008 km²). 775 square miles (2,008 km²) of it is land and less than 1 km² (less than 1 sq mi) of it (0.01%) is water.

Neighboring Counties:

Bailey County (north)
Hockley County (east)
Yoakum County (south)
Lea County, New Mexico (southwest)
Roosevelt County, New Mexico (northwest)

Cities and Towns:

- Morton (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Whiteface	town	Incorporated Area

County Resources:

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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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