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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

Concho County, Texas

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

County Seat: Paint Rock
Year Organized: 1858
Square Miles: 992

Court House:

P. O. Box 158
County Courthouse
Paint Rock, TX 76866-0158

Etymology - Origin of County Name

the Concho River. Concho is Spanish for "shell"; the river was so named due to a discovery of freshwater mussels which produced pearls, though not in sufficient economic quantities. The pearls are unique in that they often have have a distinct pink to purple hue. These are the only pearls in the world to display this distinct color change.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Concho County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. Its county seat is Paint Rock. Concho is named for the Concho River.

The legislature formed Concho County out of Bexar County in 1858, but it was not organized until 1879. In the meantime, in the early to middle 1860s, cattlemen began to move into the open range in Concho and adjacent counties. John S. Chisum,^qv the first large-scale cattleman in the county, established a string of cow camps on the Concho River in the northeastern part of the county in 1862 or 1863. He moved his headquarters to New Mexico in 1873, though he still had a camp on the Concho near the site of present-day Paint Rock in the fall of that year. There is no record of his activity in the area after 1875. Other large early operations included the U-Bar and OH Ranch, or Concho Cattle Company, which first ran cattle about 1878, and the Davies and Holland Ranch. Both of these operated in the 1880s and 1890s. For the most part, however, ranching in Concho County was relatively small-scale.

More at Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. "," http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/CC/hcc21.html (accessed November 5, 2008).

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 994 square miles (2,574 km²), of which, 991 square miles (2,568 km²) of it is land and 3 square miles (6 km²) of it (0.22%) is water.

Neighboring Counties:

Runnels County (north)
Coleman County (northeast)
McCulloch County (east)
Menard County (south)
Tom Green County (west)

Cities and Towns:

- Eden	city	Incorporated Area
- Paint Rock (County Seat)	town	Incorporated Area

County Resources:

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County Resources

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."