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 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 |
Loving County, TexasLoving County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
Etymology - Origin of County NameOliver Loving, a cattle rancher and pioneer of the cattle drive who with Charles Goodnight developed the Goodnight-Loving Trail; Loving was mortally wounded by Native Americans while on a cattle drive in the vicinity of the county Demographics:County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts County HistoryLoving County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas, and is the least populous county in the entire United States. Its seat, and only community, is Mentone. The nearest sizable towns are Pecos, Texas, and Carlsbad, New Mexico. From 1837 to 1874 the area of modern Loving County was part of the Bexar land district. In 1874 it was separated
from Bexar County, becoming a part of Tom Green County. In the spring of 1894 H. C. Withers and A. H. Randolph made a trip to Loving County to investigate reports of the illegal county organization for the firm of W. H. Abrams of New York, which represented a large Loving County landowner. They found three people in Mentone. When Withers asked to examine the tax-levy records, sheriff and tax collector W. A. Hunter told him that county clerk R. G. Munn had taken the records to Denver. Loving County reportedly held a second election of county officials on November 8, 1894, and the organizers and nonresidents were reelected to office. There is evidence that neither of the Loving County elections was legitimate. By 1897 the county officials fled the area. Taxes were not collected for 1893 and 1894 and had not been assessed or collected for 1895 and 1896. County government was chaotic, and the state legislature deorganized Loving County on May 12, 1897, reattaching it to Reeves County. The Reeves County Commissioners Court taxed Loving County landowners to pay off the county debt. More at Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. ","
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/LL/hcl13.html (accessed November 7, 2008). GeographyAccording to the U.S. Census Bureau, Loving County has a total area of 677 square miles (1,753 kmē), of which,
673 square miles (1,743 kmē) of it is land and 4 square miles (10 kmē) of it (0.56%) is water. Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:- Mentone (County Seat) County Resources:Enter County Resources and Information Here |
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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." |
