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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

Kinney County, Texas

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

County Seat: Brackettville
Year Organized: 1876
Square Miles: 1,364

Court House:

P.O. Box 348
County Courthouse
Brackettville, TX 78832-0348

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Henry Lawrence Kinney, an unsuccessful land speculator

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Kinney County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. Its seat is Brackettville. Kinney County is named for Henry Lawrence Kinney, an early settler.

In the early 1870s a number of Black Seminole Indians living along the border were organized into a company of scouts and brought to Fort Clark. Others joined them, and by the mid-1870s they numbered some 400 or 500. For the next quarter century they lived on a reservation along Las Moras Creek. In 1914 the Black Seminoles were removed from the Fort Clark reservation, but some of their descendants still live in the county. By 1874 the population was large enough for the county to be formally organized, and by 1875 the first county government was in place. In 1876 Brackettville was designated county seat after the final boundaries of the county were set by the legislature. The 1870s brought numerous signs that the county was slowly losing its frontier character. The first school, started by Margaret Martin Ballantyne, began operating around 1870, and a post office was opened in 1873. The first church, St. Mary Magalene's, was organized in 1875, and the Gilead Church, a Black Seminole church, was established in the late 1870s.

More at Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. "," http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/KK/hck9.html (accessed November 6, 2008).

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,365 square miles (3,536 km²), of which, 1,363 square miles (3,531 km²) of it is land and 2 square miles (5 km²) of it (0.14%) is water.

Neighboring Counties:

Edwards County (north)
Uvalde County (east)
Maverick County (south)
Val Verde County (west)
Jiménez, Coahuila, Mexico (southwest)

Cities and Towns:

- Brackettville (County Seat)

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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."