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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

Crane County, Texas

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

County Seat: Crane
Year Organized: 1927
Square Miles: 786

Court House:

P.O. Box 578
County Courthouse
Crane, TX 79731-0578

Etymology - Origin of County Name

William Carey Crane, a past president of Baylor University

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Crane County is located in the U.S. state of Texas. It is named for William Carey Crane, a president of Baylor University. The seat of the county is Crane

Crane County was formed in 1887 from land previously assigned to Tom Green County the same year, but for many years the area's scant rainfall deterred settlement. In 1890 only fifteen people lived in Crane County; as late as 1900 the United States census enumerated only fifty-one people and twelve ranches in the county. Almost 17,650 cattle and 3,750 sheep were counted that year.

Crane County was attached to Ector County for administrative purposes until 1927, but with (according to one estimate) 6,000 oil boomers in the area by that time, the county was ready for organization. The town of Crane, bustling with as many as 4,500 fortune-seekers, was designated as the county seat, and citizens organized to build a courthouse. Water was a scarce commodity. People paid a dollar a barrel for water brought from a well seven miles east of town, or, if prosperous, paid $2.25 a barrel for better water from Alpine. Water was too precious then for any use but cooking or home-made whiskey; women sent their laundry to El Paso. According to the census 2,221 people were living in Crane County in 1930.

More at Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. "," http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/CC/hcc25.html (accessed November 5, 2008).

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 786 square miles (2,035 km²), virtually all of which is land.

Neighboring Counties:

Ector County (north)
Upton County (east)
Crockett County (southeast)
Pecos County (south)
Ward County (west)

Cities and Towns:

- Crane (County Seat)

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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."