Texas County Index

Texas Counties
(254 Counties, 254 Names, 254 Stories)

Of the 254 counties, 42 bear Indian, French, or Spanish names. Ten honor such colonizers as Stephen F. Austin, "The Father of Texas." Twelve were named for Washington, Clay and other American patriots. Ninety-six were named for men like Glasscock who fought in the Texas War of Independence or at the Alamo, 15 dying at the Alamo, signed the Declaration of Independence or served as statesmen in the Republic of Texas. Twenty-three have the names of frontiers men and pioneers. Eleven honor American statesmen who worked for the annexation of Texas. Ten leaders in Texas since statehood, including jurist, ministers, educators, historians, statesmen, and 36 men were prominent in the Confederacy during Civil War. Midland and eight others have geographical names. San Jacinto and Val Verde were named for battles, Live Oak and Orange, for trees, and Mason for a fort.

Anderson	Andrews	Angelina	Aransas	Archer
Armstrong	Atascosa	Austin	Bailey	Bandera
Bastrop	Baylor	Bee	Bell	Bexar
Blanco	Borden	Bosque	Bowie	Brazoria
Brazos	Brewster	Briscoe	Brooks	Brown
Burleson	Burnet	Caldwell	Calhoun	Callahan
Cameron	Camp	Carson	Cass	Castro
Chambers	Cherokee	Childress	Clay	Cochran
Coke	Coleman	Collin	Collingsworth	Colorado
Comal	Comanche	Concho	Cooke	Coryell
Cottle	Crane	Crockett	Crosby	Culberson
Dallam	Dallas	Dawson	Deaf Smith	Delta
Denton	DeWitt	Dickens	Dimmit	Donley
Duval	Eastland	Ector	Edwards	El Paso
Ellis	Erath	Falls	Fannin	Fayette
Fisher	Floyd	Foard	Fort Bend	Franklin
Freestone	Frio	Gaines	Galveston	Garza
Gillespie	Glasscock	Goliad	Gonzales	Gray
Grayson	Gregg	Grimes	Guadalupe	Hale
Hall	Hamilton	Hansford	Hardeman	Hardin
Harris	Harrison	Hartley	Haskell	Hays
Hemphill	Henderson	Hidalgo	Hill	Hockley
Hood	Hopkins	Houston	Howard	Hudspeth
Hunt	Hutchinson	Irion	Jack	Jackson
Jasper	Jeff Davis	Jefferson	Jim Hogg	Jim Wells
Johnson	Jones	Karnes	Kaufman	Kendall
Kenedy	Kent	Kerr	Kimble	King
Kinney	Kleberg	Knox	La Salle	Lamar
Lamb	Lampasas	Lavaca	Lee	Leon
Liberty	Limestone	Lipscomb	Live Oak	Llano
Loving	Lubbock	Lynn	Madison	Marion
Martin	Mason	Matagorda	Maverick	McCulloch
McLennan	McMullen	Medina	Menard	Midland
Milam	Mills	Mitchell	Montague	Montgomery
Moore	Morris	Motley	Nacogdoches	Navarro
Newton	Nolan	Nueces	Ochiltree	Oldham
Orange	Palo Pinto	Panola	Parker	Parmer
Pecos	Polk	Potter	Presidio	Rains
Randall	Reagan	Real	Red River	Reeves
Refugio	Roberts	Robertson	Rockwall	Runnels
Rusk	Sabine	San Augustine	San Jacinto	San Patricio
San Saba	Schleicher	Scurry	Shackelford	Shelby
Sherman	Smith	Somervell	Starr	Stephens
Sterling	Stonewall	Sutton	Swisher	Tarrant
Taylor	Terrell	Terry	Throckmorton	Titus
Tom Green	Travis	Trinity	Tyler	Upshur
Upton	Uvalde	Val Verde	Van Zandt	Victoria
Walker	Waller	Ward	Washington	Webb
Wharton	Wheeler	Wichita	Wilbarger	Willacy
Williamson	Wilson	Winkler	Wise	Wood
Yoakum	Young	Zapata	Zavala

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