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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

Hudspeth County, Texas

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

County Seat: Sierra Blanca
Year Organized: 1917
Square Miles: 4,571

Court House:

PO Box 68
County Courthouse
Sierra Blanca, TX 79851-0068

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Claude Benton Hudspeth, a state congressman, rancher, and newspaper publisher

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Hudspeth County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. Its county seat is Sierra Blanca. The county is named for Claude Benton Hudspeth, a state senator from El Paso.

A new county was officially organized from eastern El Paso County in February 1917. It was first to have been called Darlington County, then Turney County, before it was finally named for state senator Claude Benton Hudspeth^qv of El Paso. Sierra Blanca was made the county seat, and the county courthouse there is the only one in Texas made entirely of adobe.^qv In 1920 the new county had only 962 inhabitants, but ten years later the population had climbed to 3,728, due primarily to increased farming. During the 1920s the number of farms in Hudspeth County increased from thirty-five to 194; whereas in 1920 the county had only 160 improved acres, by 1930 some 15,700 acres of cropland was harvested. This was, however, the last population boom in Hudspeth County, as the population fell to 3,149 in 1940, rose to 4,298 in 1950, and then fell again, to 3,343 in 1960 and 2,392 in 1970, before rising slightly to 2,728 in 1980. Farming and ranching have been the primary sources of employment in Hudspeth County, although the number of people working in agriculture has, with one exception, declined steadily in every decadal census since 1930: 789 in 1930, 630 in 1940, 960 in 1950, 411 in 1960, 268 in 1970, and 139 in 1980. Ranching has been the principal activity in Hudspeth County; the national agricultural census showed between 20,000 and 26,000 cattle on local ranches every year except in 1959, when the total was 15,915. The number of sheep grew from 304 in 1920 to 3,456 in 1930, and to 31,338 ten years later, but declined in subsequent years, to 25,005 in 1950, 19,403 in 1959, and about 4,000 in 1982

More at Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. "," http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/HH/hch21.html (accessed November 6, 2008).

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 4,572 square miles (11,841 km²), of which, 4,571 square miles (11,839 km²) of it is land and 1 square miles (2 km²) of it (0.02%) is water. Part of Guadalupe Mountains National Park lies in the northeast corner of the county.

Neighboring Counties:

Otero County, New Mexico (north)
Culberson County (east)
Jeff Davis County (southeast)
El Paso County (west)
Guadalupe, Chihuahua, Mexico (south)
Práxedis G. Guerrero, Chihuahua, Mexico (south)

Cities and Towns:

- Dell City	city	Incorporated Area
- Sierra Blanca (County Seat)

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."