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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

Eastland County, Texas

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

County Seat: Eastland
Year Organized: 1858
Square Miles: 926

Court House:

PO Box 327
County Courthouse
Eastland, TX 76448-0327

Etymology - Origin of County Name

William Mosby Eastland, a soldier during the Texas Revolution and the only officer to die as a result of the Black Bean executions

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Eastland County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. It is named for William Mosby Eastland, a soldier during the Texas Revolution and the only officer to die as a result of the Black Bean executions. The county seat is Eastland

The first Anglo presence in the region cannot be positively documented, but in 1837 W. A. A. (Big Foot) Wallace^qv might have entered what later became Eastland County with a surveying expedition. Among the first settlers in the county was Frank Sánchez, a Mexican American who arrived in the area in the 1850s. By 1858 residents included the families of John Flannegan (or Flannagan) from Kentucky, W. H. Mansker from Arkansas, W. C. McGough and James Ellison from Georgia, J. M. Ellison from Texas, and the Gilbert boys from Alabama. That year the Texas legislature formed Eastland County from land formerly assigned to Bosque, Coryell, and Travis counties; the county was attached to Palo Pinto County for judicial purposes.

More at Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. "," http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/EE/hce1.html (accessed November 5, 2008).

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 932 square miles (2,414 km²), of which, 926 square miles (2,398 km²) of it is land and 6 square miles (16 km²) of it (0.63%) is water.

Neighboring Counties:

Stephens County (north)
Palo Pinto County (northeast)
Erath County (east)
Comanche County (southeast)
Brown County (south)
Callahan County (west)
Shackelford County (northwest)

Cities and Towns:

- Carbon	town	Incorporated Area
- Cisco	city	Incorporated Area
- Eastland (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Gorman	city	Incorporated Area
- Ranger	city	Incorporated Area
- Rising Star	town	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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