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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

Navarro County, Texas

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

County Seat: Corsicana
Year Organized: 1846
Square Miles: 1,071

Court House:

300 West Third Avenue
County Courthouse
Corsicana, TX 75110-4672

Etymology - Origin of County Name

José Antonio Navarro, a leading Tejano participant in the Texas Revolution and signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Navarro County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. Its county seat is Corsicana. Navarro County is named for José Antonio Navarro, a Tejano leader in the Texas Revolution who signed the Texas Declaration of Independence.

In the spring of 1839 more families moved in and settled around the trading post. Two growing settlements were Porter's Bluff and Dresden. All of the legal work for the two sites was conducted at Franklin, the county seat of Robertson County, 125 miles south of Hill's Trading Post. People in Porter's Bluff and Dresden felt they needed their own county with a local authority to handle legal matters. In the spring of 1846 a group led by Edward H. Tarrant,^qv a Texas Ranger, met at the home of Thomas I. Smith.^qv The men at the meeting drew up a petition for a new county to be made out of Robertson County, with a temporary county seat to be located at the home of W. R. Howe. Clinton M. Winkler,^qv a local lawyer, presented the petition to the state legislature in Austin, and it was approved on April 25, 1846. The new county included all the portion of Robertson County within the east bank of the Brazos River to the northwest corner of Limestone County. It also extended to the Trinity River and north to Dallas County. It was named Navarro County in honor of José Antonio Navarro,^qv a Texas patriot. The county seat remained at Howe's home until his death in 1847. On February 8, 1848, a committee headed by Tarrant voted to set up a permanent county seat at the halfway point between Porter's Bluff and Dresden. Rev. Hampton McKinney was already living at the site and later constructed the McKinney Inn at the location. On February 25, 1848, Thomas Smith donated 100 acres of land at the McKinney site, and C. C. Taylor was employed to construct a town plot. José Antonio Navarro chose the name Corsicana in honor of the Isle of Corsica, his father's birthplace. The town is located forty-five miles southeast of Dallas on Interstate Highway 45. Over the next twenty years the original Navarro County was divided into the following counties: Limestone in 1846, Ellis in 1847, Tarrant in 1847, part of McLennan in 1850, Hill in 1853, Johnson

More at Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. "," http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/NN/hcn2.html (accessed November 7, 2008).

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,086 square miles (2,813 km²), of which, 1,008 square miles (2,610 km²) of it is land and 79 square miles (203 km²) of it (7.23%) is water.

Neighboring Counties:

Henderson County (northeast)
Freestone County (southeast)
Limestone County (south)
Hill County (southwest)
Ellis County (northwest)

Cities and Towns:

- Angus	city	Incorporated Area
- Barry	city	Incorporated Area
- Blooming Grove	town	Incorporated Area
- Corsicana (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Dawson	town	Incorporated Area
- Emhouse	town	Incorporated Area
- Eureka	city	Incorporated Area
- Frost	city	Incorporated Area
- Goodlow	city	Incorporated Area
- Kerens	city	Incorporated Area
- Mildred	town	Incorporated Area
- Navarro	town	Incorporated Area
- Oak Valley	town	Incorporated Area
- Powell	town	Incorporated Area
- Retreat	town	Incorporated Area
- Rice	city	Incorporated Area
- Richland	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."