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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

Dickens County, Texas

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

County Seat: Dickens
Year Organized: 1876
Square Miles: 904

Court House:

P.O. Box 179
County Courthouse
Dickens, TX 79229-0179

Etymology - Origin of County Name

J. Dickens, who died at the Battle of the Alamo

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Dickens County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. Its county seat is Dickens. The county and city are both named for J. Dickens, who died at the Battle of the Alamo. (It is not certain what the "J" means.)

The Wanderers Who Make Bad Camps Band of the Comanches dominated the region before white settlement. The Comanches became fine horse-mounted warriors and hunters after they adapted their culture to the utilization of Spanish horses in the seventeenth century. The Comanche Indians hunted buffalo^qv in summer and fall to provide most of their material needs. They met in an informal general assembly to decide the organization of their communal hunts, and war leaders made final decisions. A historian writes, "The buffalo was the lifeblood of Comanche culture; its near-extermination sounded the death knell for the kind of life Comanches had come to know." White hunters cleared the land of buffalo and wild horses in the 1870s, while Colonel Ranald S. MacKenzie's^qv Fourth United States Cavalry^qv subdued the Comanches in 1874 and 1875. MacKenzie's base of operations against the Indians was located at Anderson's Fort, also called Soldiers Mound, an army supply camp located near the site of present-day Spur. In 1876 the Texas state legislature formed Dickens County from land previously assigned to Bexar County.

More at Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. "," http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/DD/hcd8.html (accessed November 5, 2008).

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 905 square miles (2,344 km²), of which, 904 square miles (2,342 km²) of it is land and 1 square miles (2 km²) of it (0.11%) is water.

Neighboring Counties:

Motley County (north)
King County (east)
Kent County (south)
Crosby County (west)

Cities and Towns:

- Dickens (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Spur	city	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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