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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

Scurry County, Texas

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

County Seat: Snyder
Year Organized: 1876
Square Miles: 903

Court House:

1806 25th Street
County Courthouse
Snyder, TX 79549-2508

Etymology - Origin of County Name

William Read Scurry, a Texas state legislator and Confederate general who was killed at the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Scurry County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. Its county seat is Snyder

Scurry County was established by the Texas legislature in 1876 from lands formerly assigned to Bexar County; in 1880 there were 102 residents, including eight blacks, living in the area. The county was attached to Mitchell County for judicial purposes until 1884, when it was organized. Snyder, the growing trading post, became a townsite in 1882 and the county seat in 1884. A. C. Wilmeth began publishing the county's first newspaper, the Scurry County Citizen, in the 1880s. By 1890 there were 184 farms and ranches, encompassing almost 142,000 acres, in the county, and its population had increased to 1,415. Ranching dominated the local economy; that year almost 23,000 cattle and 17,000 sheep were reported in the county. Crop farming was also beginning to be established by that time, as 822 acres were planted in corn and 246 acres were planted in wheat. The "Block 97 Controversy" kept ranchers and homesteaders aroused for years before the dispute was settled by the legislature in 1899. The controversy centered on 612,000 acres of land, mostly in Scurry County, that had been granted to the Houston and Texas Central Railroad and the Texas and Pacific Railway Company. After selling land to settlers, the railroad became insolvent. Land titles reverted to the state and homesteaders claimed land against the invalidated purchase rights of ranchers, who were eventually required to repurchase in order to hold their lands. Despite this controversy the county developed quickly during this period. By 1900 there were 586 farms and ranches in the area, and the population had increased to 4,158. Cattle ranching dominated the local economy. Over 43,000 cattle, and about 3,000 sheep, were reported that year. Meanwhile, crop farming continued to spread. Over 4,000 acres were planted in corn that year, and 701 acres in wheat. Cotton had become the county's most important crop, however; that year more than 7,400 acres were devoted to the fiber

More at Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. "," http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/SS/hcs7.html (accessed November 9, 2008).

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 908 square miles (2,350 km²), of which, 902 square miles (2,337 km²) of it is land and 5 square miles (13 km²) of it (0.55%) is water.

Neighboring Counties:

Kent County (north)
Fisher County (east)
Mitchell County (south)
Borden County (west)
Garza County (northwest)

Cities and Towns:

- Snyder (County Seat)

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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."