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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

Montgomery County, Texas

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

County Seat: Conroe
Year Organized: 1837
Square Miles: 1,044

Court House:

301 North Thompson, Suite 210
County Courthouse
Conroe, TX 77301-2893

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Montgomery, Texas, which was the largest town in the county when Montgomery County, Texas was formed, was named for Montgomery, Alabama, which was named after General Richard Montgomery of the American Revolution.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Montgomery County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. The county was created by an act of the Congress of the Republic of Texas on December 14, 1837. The county was named for the town of Montgomery, Texas

The earliest European explorer of what became Montgomery County was probably the Frenchman René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle,^qv who evidently passed through the area in 1687. When news of French incursions reached Spanish authorities, they sent several expeditions to the region to reclaim it for Spain. During the mid-eighteenth century the Spanish made several attempts to establish settlements in the area and eventually set up three missions on the banks of Spring Creek within the current boundaries of Montgomery County, but the missions were abandoned in 1756 and no permanent Spanish settlements were made. The future Montgomery County area was included in the colonization contracts issued by Spanish and later Mexican authorities to empresario Stephen F. Austin,^qv and during the early 1820s Anglo-American settlers began moving into the region. Forty-two families of Austin's colony obtained land titles from the Mexican government and settled in western Montgomery County. Among the earliest settlers was Andrew Montgomery,^qv who established a trading post at the crossroads of the Loma del Toro and lower Coushatta traces. He was soon joined by relatives and others, and the settlement eventually grew into the town of Montgomery. During the early 1830s the population of the region increased rapidly, and in December, 1837 the Republic of Texas^qv Congress established Montgomery County, which was named for its largest settlement. The new county was carved from Washington County, and its borders originally extended from the Brazos River on the west to the Trinity on the east, and from the Old San Antonio Road on north to the San Jacinto River on the south, an area which included future Grimes, Walker, San Jacinto, Madison, and Waller counties. The county's present boundaries were established after the establishment of Waller County in 1870.

More at Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. "," http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/MM/hcm17.html (accessed November 7, 2008).

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,077 square miles (2,789 km²), of which, 1,044 square miles (2,704 km²) of it is land and 33 square miles (85 km²) of it (3.04%) is water.

Neighboring Counties:

Walker County (north)
San Jacinto County (northeast)
Liberty County (east)
Harris County (south)
Waller County (west)
Grimes County (Northwest)

Cities and Towns:

- Conroe (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Cut and Shoot	town	Incorporated Area
- Magnolia	city	Incorporated Area
- Montgomery	city	Incorporated Area
- Oak Ridge North	city	Incorporated Area
- Panorama Village	city	Incorporated Area
- Patton Village	city	Incorporated Area
- Pinehurst	city	Incorporated Area
- Roman Forest	town	Incorporated Area
- Shenandoah	city	Incorporated Area
- Splendora	city	Incorporated Area
- Stagecoach	town	Incorporated Area
- Willis	city	Incorporated Area
- Woodbranch	city	Incorporated Area
- Woodloch	town	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."