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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

Terry County, Texas

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

County Seat: Brownfield
Year Organized: 1876
Square Miles: 890

Court House:

500 West Main - Room 102
County Courthouse
Brownfield, TX 79316-4335

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Benjamin Franklin Terry, a Confederate colonel and commander of Terry's Texas Rangers (Eighth Texas Cavalry)

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Terry County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. Its county seat is Brownfield. The county is named for Benjamin Franklin Terry, a colonel in the Confederate Army.

The area that is now Terry County includes lands granted by Mexico to Stephen J. Wilson in 1826 and John Charles Beales^qv in 1832, but the Texas Revolution^qv prevented any settlement on grant lands of West Texas. The land had been a hunting ground for Comanches and other Indians who preyed on the great herds of buffalo^qv in the area, but buffalo hunters depleted the herds during the early 1870s. Terry County was demarked from Bexar County in 1876 and named for Col. Benjamin Franklin Terry,^qv who commanded the Eighth Texas Cavalry^qv (Terry's Texas Rangers) in the Civil War.^qv It was attached to Young County until 1881, when Throckmorton County took over its judicial affairs. In 1883 administration was vested in Howard County, and in 1889 it was transferred to Martin County. The county began to be settled by whites in the 1890s, when the state offered ten-year leases on school lands for grazing cattle. Terry County was organized in 1904, with Brownfield as its seat of government.

More at Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. "," http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/TT/hct4.html (accessed November 9, 2008).

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 891 square miles (2,308 km²), of which, 890 square miles (2,305 km²) of it is land and 1 square miles (3 km²) of it (0.12%) is water.

Neighboring Counties:

Hockley County (north)
Lynn County (east)
Dawson County (southeast)
Gaines County (south)
Yoakum County (west)

Cities and Towns:

- Brownfield (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Meadow	town	Incorporated Area
- Wellman	city	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."