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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

Uvalde County, Texas

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

County Seat: Uvalde
Year Organized: 1850
Square Miles: 1,557

Court House:

P.O. Box 284
County Courthouse
Uvalde, TX 78802-0284

Etymology - Origin of County Name

the Cañón de Ugalde, a nearby battlefield where Spanish General Juan de Ugalde won a surprise battle against 300 Apaches in the Sabinal River canyon on January 9, 1790

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Uvalde County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. Its county seat is Uvalde. The county is named for Juan de Ugalde, the Spanish governor of Coahuila

Uvalde County was formed by legislative act from Bexar County on February 8, 1850, but failed to secure a permanent county status because of an insufficient number of settlers. Of equal importance to the early history of the county was the development of the farming and ranching settlements at Waresville by Capt. William Ware^qv in the upper Sabinal Canyon and Patterson Settlement by George W. Patterson, John Leakey, and A. B. Dillard on the Sabinal River; these settlements coincided with Reading Black's development of the Leona River at Encina. A second attempt by Black to organize the territory resulted in a petition to form a county encompassing the area of the present Kinney, Maverick, and Uvalde counties. The petition was approved in 1855 by the citizens of Eagle Pass, Los Moras, Patterson Settlement, and Encina. A much smaller Uvalde County was established by legislative enactment on February 2, 1856; four months later, on June 14, Encina was made county seat and renamed Uvalde. Slow but steady progress marked the pre-Civil War years. The second floor of the courthouse was made into a school, and six school districts were organized for the county in 1858. The San Antonio-El Paso Mail^qv route was extended along the county's main road with a stop at Fort Inge in 1857. The estimated population increased from seventy-five in 1853 to 442 by 1858. Thomas B. Hammer established a store at the intersection of the Sabinal River and the San Antonio-Eagle Pass road. Comanche and Apache raids significantly hindered development. Seminoles, Tonkawas, and Lipan Apaches swept down the Leona River valley and attacked ranches near Fort Inge soon after its temporary abandonment in 1857. Many settlers along the Nueces River moved to Laredo, and many along the Leona moved to San Antonio or concentrated in a defensive stockade, known as Fort Anglin, built on Anglin's Creek

More at Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. "," http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/UU/hcu3.html (accessed November 9, 2008).

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,559 square miles (4,037 km²), of which, 1,557 square miles (4,031 km²) of it is land and 2 square miles (5 km²) of it (0.13%) is water.

Neighboring Counties:

Real County (north)
Bandera County (northeast)
Medina County (east)
Zavala County (south)
Kinney County (west)
Edwards County (northwest)

Cities and Towns:

- Sabinal	city	Incorporated Area
- Uvalde (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area

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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."