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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 |
Garza County, TexasGarza County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
Etymology - Origin of County Namea pioneer Bexar County family Demographics:County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts County HistoryGarza County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas southeast of Lubbock. Its county seat is Post. Garza is named for a pioneer Bexar County family, as it was once a part of that county. Garza County was formed from Bexar County in 1876. It began to be
settled by ranchmen during the mid-1870s, when buffalo huntingqv had nearly
devastated the herds. Two of the earliest ranchers in the county were Andy and Frank Long, who stocked the range
south of the Double Mountain Fork of the Brazos for their OS Ranch.qv In 1879 W.
C. Young and Ben Galbraith established the Llano Cattle Co in the northwest part of Garza County. The ubiquitous
West Texas rancher John B. Slaughterqv used Garza County rangeland during the
1870s. In 1880 the census counted thirty-six residents in the county. The last Indian raid in the county occurred in
1883 at the Curry Comb Ranch,qv owned by the Llano Cattle Company; in 1884, the
Square and Compass Ranchqv put up the first barbed wireqv
fence in the county. The disastrous winter of 1885-86 (see BIG DIE-UP) and the drought of 1886 discouraged
some of the early ranchers, and by 1890 only fourteen residents remained. During the 1890s, however, other ranchers
and a few farmers began to move in and drilled wells to help ensure their water supply. By 1900 thirty-eight farms
and ranches had been established in Garza County and the population had risen to 185, but at the turn of the century
the county's economy was still almost entirely devoted to cattle production. The agricultural census for 1900
reported only 545 improved acres in the county, with only twenty-one acres planted in corn, but the cattle herds
that year comprised 29,094 head. GeographyAccording to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 896 square miles (2,321 kmē), of which, 895
square miles (2,319 kmē) of it is land and 1 square miles (2 kmē) of it (0.07%) 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." |
