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Texas Counties
 Click Image to Enlarge Texas CountiesTexas 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 |
Dimmit County, TexasDimmit County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
Etymology - Origin of County NamePhilip Dimmitt, a major figure in the Texas Revolution Demographics:County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts County HistoryDimmit County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. It is named for Philip Dimmitt, a major figure in the
Texas Revolution. The reason the county name differs is because the bill creating the county misspelled Dimmitt's name.
The same situation resulted in the 19th century in Kearney, Nebraska, when that community was named for Mexican War
General Stephen W. Kearny. Between the Texas Revolution and the Mexican Warqqv (1836-46), most of Dimmit County lay in the disputed area between the Rio Grande and the Nueces River. Since neither the Republic of Texasqv nor the Mexican government could establish control over this strip of contested land, known at the time as Wild Horse Desert or El Desierto Muerto (Dead Desert), it became a haven for desperate characters. This remained true for years after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgoqv definitively assigned the Nueces Strip to Texas. In 1858, Dimmit County was officially formed from parts of Bexar, Webb, Maverick, and Uvalde Counties. Dangers posed by outlaws and unfriendly Indians, however, deterred settlement in the county until after the Civil War.qv Dimmit County as it was found by early settlers was much different than it is today. Grasslands punctuated by clumps of mesquite, oak, and ash trees supported an abundance of wildlife, including buffalo, deer, turkeys, wild horses, panthers, and javelinas. Springs, bubbling up from a vast reservoir of underground water, fed into running streams that harbored giant catfish, crawfish, and mussels. As one visitor described it, the place in the mid-nineteenth century was "a poor man's heaven." Before it was settled, the area became known to a number of men who went there on Indian patrols, to hunt mustangs,qv or to seek good places to feed and water their cattle. More at Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. ","
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/DD/hcd9.html (accessed November 5, 2008). GeographyAccording to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,334 square miles (3,456 kmē), of which,
1,331 square miles (3,447 kmē) of it is land and 3 square miles (9 kmē) of it (0.27%) is water. Neighboring Counties:
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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." |
