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Texas Counties
 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 |
Nacogdoches County, TexasNacogdoches County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
Etymology - Origin of County Namethe Nacogdoches Native American tribe Demographics:County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts County HistoryNacogdoches County (pronounced [ˌnæːkəˈdoʊtʃɪs]) is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. Its county seat is Nacogdoches. The Nacogdoches Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Nacogdoches County. As the clouds of revolution gathered in 1835, Henry Rueg,qv political chief of the Department of Nacogdoches, called a meeting at which Frost Thorn, Thomas J. Rusk,qv and others were appointed to form the Nacogdoches Committee of Vigilance and Safety. The committee organized a militia and collected arms and provisions for the revolution. During the winter of 1835-36 hundreds of volunteers poured through the area on their way south to fight for independence. During the Runaway Scrapeqv in 1836 the area was virtually abandoned once again, but with the defeat of Antonio López de Santa Annaqv at the battle of San Jacintoqv the residents of Nacogdoches and the surrounding region returned en masse. Immediately after the Texas Revolutionqv the municipalities within the Nacogdoches Department, Liberty, Jefferson, Jasper, Sabine, San Augustine, and Shelby, were established as counties of the Republic of Texas.qv The remaining area east of the Trinity River was designated Nacogdoches County on March 17, 1836. In April 1846 the county was further subdivided into what would eventually become all or part of twenty other counties: Anderson, Angelina, Camp, Cherokee, Dallas, Delta, Gregg, Henderson, Hopkins, Houston, Hunt, Kaufman, Raines, Rockwall, Rusk, Smith, Trinity, Upshur, Van Zandt, and Wood. More at Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. "," http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/NN/hcn1.html (accessed November 7, 2008). GeographyAccording to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 981 square miles (2,542 km²), of which, 947
square miles (2,452 km²) of it is land and 35 square miles (90 km²) of it (3.52%) is water. Neighboring Counties:
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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." |
