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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

Robertson County, Texas

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

County Seat: Franklin
Year Organized: 1837
Square Miles: 855

Court House:

P.O. Box 427
County Courthouse
Franklin, TX 77856-0427

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Sterling Clack Robertson, a founder of a colony in early Texas

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Robertson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.Its seat is Franklin. The county is named for Sterling C. Robertson, an early settler who signed the Texas Declaration of Independence.

On December 14, 1837, the First Texas Congress passed a measure establishing Robertson County from portions of Milam, Bexar, and Nacogdoches counties and naming it in honor of Sterling Robertson. When the county was organized the following year, the settlement of Franklin (usually referred to as Old Franklin today to differentiate it from the present county seat also named Franklin), which served as headquarters for surveyors of a land district including present Leon, Freestone, Limestone, Navarro, and other counties, became the county seat. Over the next nine years sixteen counties were carved from its original jurisdiction, and the county only assumed its present limits in 1846. In 1850 the county residents voted to move the county seat from Old Franklin to Wheelock because the town was closer to the most heavily populated areas of the area. Six years later the county seat was once again moved, this time to a new town, Owensville, near the geographical center of the county, where it remained until after the Civil War.^qv During the mid-1830s Robertson County was the scene of numerous battles between Anglo-American settlers and Indians. Among the most famous was the May 19, 1836, attack on Fort Parker during which Cynthia Ann Parker,^qv mother of Chief Quanah Parker,^qv was taken captive. The Indian raids, however, began to abate after 1838, when a company of Texas Rangers^qv commanded by Eli Chandler^qv was stationed at Old Franklin. By the time Texas joined the United States in 1846, the frontier had pushed farther west, and Indian raids in Robertson County had become infrequent

More at Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. "," http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/RR/hcr9.html (accessed November 8, 2008).

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 866 square miles (2,242 km²), of which, 855 square miles (2,213 km²) of it is land and 11 square miles (29 km²) of it (1.28%) is water.

Neighboring Counties:

Limestone County (north)
Leon County (northeast)
Brazos County (southeast)
Burleson County (south)
Milam County (southwest)
Falls County (northwest)

Cities and Towns:

- Bremond	city	Incorporated Area
- Calvert	city	Incorporated Area
- Franklin (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Hearne	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."