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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

Guadalupe County, Texas

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

County Seat: Seguin
Year Organized: 1846
Square Miles: 711

Court House:

307 W Court St
County Courthouse
Seguin, TX 78155-5729

Etymology - Origin of County Name

the Guadalupe River. The river was first called after Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe by Alonso de León in 1689. It was renamed the San Augustin by Domingo Terán de los Ríos who maintained a colony on the river, but the name Guadalupe persisted.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Guadalupe County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. It is named for the Guadalupe River. The seat of the county is Seguin

After the Texas Revolution^qv the new government sent volunteer troops to protect people in remote areas. Those settlers who had left because of the Indians and the Mexican army returned, and others joined them. Much of the land given to Texas veterans for their service during the revolution was located in what became Guadalupe County. A company of Texas Rangers^qv commanded by Capt. John Coffee Hays^qv set up camp at Walnut Springs near the Guadalupe River. In 1838 a group of former Texas Rangers and other settlers founded the community of Walnut Springs on the northeast bank of the Guadalupe; its name was changed to Seguin in 1839 to honor Juan N. Seguin.^qv The presence of troops encouraged many incoming families to stay near Seguin until the area became more secure. As a result, Seguin developed earlier and more rapidly than other communities in the future county and became the region's center of social and economic life. It was the natural choice for county seat when Guadalupe County was formed. The Republic of Texas^qv organized Guadalupe County as a judicial county in 1842, but discontinued it later that year when the Texas Supreme Court declared judicial counties to be unconstitutional. In March 1846, after the annexation^qv of Texas to the United States, the legislature established the present county from parts of Bexar and Gonzales counties. Guadalupe County had an area of 862 square miles in 1846 but lost land in 1858 and 1874, when Blanco and Wilson counties were organized

More at Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. "," http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/GG/hcg12.html (accessed November 5, 2008).

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 714 square miles (1,850 km²), of which, 711 square miles (1,842 km²) of it is land and 3 square miles (8 km²) of it (0.42%) is water

Neighboring Counties:

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Cities and Towns:

- Cibolo	city	Incorporated Area
- Live Oak	city	Incorporated Area
- Marion	city	Incorporated Area
- New Berlin	city	Incorporated Area
- Santa Clara	city	Incorporated Area
- Schertz	city	Incorporated Area
- Seguin (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Selma	city	Incorporated Area

County Resources:

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County Resources

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."