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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

Kimble County, Texas

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

County Seat: Junction
Year Organized: 1858
Square Miles: 1,251

Court House:

501 Main Street
County Courthouse
Junction, TX 76849-4743

Etymology - Origin of County Name

George C. Kimbell, who died at the Battle of the Alamo

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Kimble County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. Its county seat is Junction. Kimble is named for George C. Kimbell, who died at the Battle of the Alamo.

On January 22, 1858, Kimble County was formed by the Texas legislature from lands formerly assigned to Bexar County and was attached to Gillespie County for judicial purposes. Following the Civil War^qv settlements sprang up at the Johnson Fork of the Llano River, on Copperas Creek, and in the valleys of the James River. The first store in Kimble County was built in 1873 at the Johnson Fork. It was supplied by goods freighted in ox wagons from Kerrville. Comanches raided the settlements frequently until Gen. Ranald S. Mackenzie^qv drove them onto reservations and killed their horses in 1874 and 1875. Lipans and Kickapoos, using Mexico as a base, continued to make raids extending into Kimble County, but the last serious attack took place in 1876. The raids ceased after 1878. The county was also a popular haven for outlaws, who used its hilly terrain and dense cedar brakes to hide out. Such noted bandits and gunmen as Rube Boyce, the McKeevers, the Dublin Gang, and John P. Ringo^qv of the Mason County War^qv spent time there. Texas Rangers^qv based on Bear Creek conducted a large-scale roundup in 1877 and brought prisoners to Junction City for trial

More at Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. "," http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/KK/hck7.html (accessed November 6, 2008).

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,251 square miles (3,240 km²), of which, 1,250 square miles (3,239 km²) of it is land and 1 square miles (1 km²) of it (0.02%) is water.

Neighboring Counties:

Menard County (north)
Mason County (northeast)
Gillespie County (east)
Kerr County (southeast)
Edwards County (southwest)
Sutton County (west)

Cities and Towns:

- Junction (County Seat)

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."