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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

Maverick County, Texas

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

County Seat: Eagle Pass
Year Organized: 1856
Square Miles: 1,280

Court House:

PO Box 955
County Courthouse
Eagle Pass, TX 78853-0955

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Samuel Augustus Maverick, an early legislator and later rancher near the future county; from his name the word "maverick" entered the English lexicon due to his practice of not branding his cattle as well as his stubborn independence in refusing to do so

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Maverick County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. Its county seat is Eagle Pass. Maverick County is named for Samuel Maverick, cattleman and state legislator.

Maverick County was carved from Kinney County and named for Samuel A. Maverick in 1856. The estimated population of the county in 1860 was 726. The vote of Eagle Pass against secession^qv from the Union was an overwhelming eighty to three. Fort Duncan was occupied by Confederate troops during the Civil War. Eagle Pass was chosen as a trade depot for the Military Board of Texas.^qv Near the end of the war Eagle Pass was the only port of entry open for the export of the Confederacy's cotton. Friedrich Groos, who had a flourishing mercantile and freighting business at Eagle Pass when the war began, had switched to trading cotton and running a cotton yard by 1863. So much cotton was passing through Eagle Pass by 1864 that cotton bales were lined from the river to the edge of town. A cotton press was installed at Piedras Negras to handle the enormous quantities coming across the Rio Grande. At the close of the war Gen. Joseph Orville Shelby (see SHELBY EXPEDITION) bivouacked 500 Confederate soldiers of the Trans-Mississippi Army in the Eagle Pass area. On July 4, 1865, when crossing the Rio Grande on the way to Mexico to offer his troops' service to Maximillian, Shelby stopped in the middle of the river to bury the last Confederate flag to fly over his troops. According to his adjutant, he wrapped the flag around the plume of his hat, weighted it with a stone from the river bank, and lowered it into the river.

More at Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. "," http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/MM/hcm6.html (accessed November 7, 2008).

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,292 square miles (3,346 km²), of which, 1,280 square miles (3,315 km²) of it is land and 12 square miles (31 km²) of it is water. The total area is 0.90% water.

Neighboring Counties:

Kinney County (north)
Zavala County (east)
Dimmit County (east)
Webb County (southeast)
Guerrero, Coahuila, Mexico (southwest)
Jiménez, Coahuila, Mexico (west)
Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico (southwest)

Cities and Towns:

- Eagle Pass (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Spofford	city	Incorporated Area

County Resources:

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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."