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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

Titus County, Texas

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

County Seat: Mount Pleasant
Year Organized: 1846
Square Miles: 411

Court House:

100 W. 1st Street, Suite 200
County Courthouse
Mount Pleasant, TX 75455-4452

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Andrew Jackson Titus, a state legislator and planter

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Titus County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. Its county seat is Mount Pleasant. The county is named for Andrew Jackson Titus, an early settler.

The area that makes up Titus County has been the site of human habitation for several thousand years, although perhaps not continuously. Archaic Period (ca. 5000 B.C.-A.D. 500) artifacts have been recovered. During historic times, the earliest occupants of the county were the Caddo Indians, an agricultural people with a highly developed culture. During the 1820s and 1830s white settlements elsewhere in Texas prompted other Indians, such as Creeks, Choctaws, and Cherokees, to settle in the area. In the 1840s white settlers gradually displaced the Indians. Earliest European exploration of the area that would become Titus County cannot be conclusively determined. If one of the northernmost of the numerous conflicting route interpretations of the Moscoso expedition^qv in 1542 is correct, then that group passed through or very near Titus County. It could be, however, that the first European contact with the area did not occur until after the founding of Le Poste des Cadodaquious^qv in what is now Bowie County by the French in 1719. Although the French occupied the fort for more than fifty years, little is known about their activities. It seems probable, however, that they did explore as far to the southwest as Titus County. The earliest Anglo settler in what is now Titus County is said to have been Kendall Lewis,^qv who moved into the county in 1835 with his wife, probably a Creek Indian. Lewis's land grant, patented in February 1842, is said to have been the first land surveyed in the county. The family settled on Swauano Creek and remained in the county until problems with Indians caused the Lewises to leave the state in 1846. During the early 1840s settlement of the area proceeded rapidly, and in 1846 the First Legislature of the state of Texas established Titus County, which included all of the territory of present-day Morris and Franklin counties. The county was named for Andrew Jackson Titus,^qv an early Red River County settler. Mount Pleasant was established as the county seat.

More at Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. "," http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/TT/hct6.html (accessed November 9, 2008).

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 426 square miles (1,103 km²), of which, 411 square miles (1,063 km²) of it is land and 15 square miles (40 km²) of it (3.56%) is water

Neighboring Counties:

Red River County (north)
Morris County (east)
Camp County (south)
Franklin County (west)

Cities and Towns:

- Miller's Cove	town	Incorporated Area
- Mount Pleasant (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Winfield	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."