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Harris County, the state's most populous, is home to 60 district courts - each one covering the entire county. While district courts can exercise concurrent jurisdiction over an entire county, and they can and do share courthouses and clerks to save money (as allowed under an 1890 Texas Supreme Court case), each is still legally constituted as ...
English: This is a locator map showing Harris County in Texas. David Benbennick made this map. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps .
The 254 counties of Texas. This is a list of county courthouses and other non-federal courthouses in Texas, both current and former. For federal courthouses located in Texas, see List of United States federal courthouses in Texas. The U.S. state of Texas has 254 counties, the most of any U.S. state.
Municipal Courts are the most active courts, with County Courts and District Courts handling most other cases and often sharing the same courthouse. Administration is the responsibility of the Supreme Court of Texas, which is aided by the Texas Office of Court Administration, Texas Judicial Council and the State Bar of Texas, which it oversees.
Harris County Criminal Courts Building. The Harris County Flood Control District manages the effects of flooding in the county. The Harris County Sheriff's Office operates jail facilities and is the primary provider of law enforcement services to the unincorporated areas of the county. The sheriff is the conservator of the peace in the county.
More executions have taken place in Harris County than in every individual state aside from Texas, and more than Alabama and Georgia combined. [4] As of 2017, the county had executed 126 people since the 1976 legalization of capital punishment, leading it to be referred to as the "death penalty capital of the world."
Following is a list of current and former courthouses of the United States federal court system located in Texas.Each entry indicates the name of the building along with an image, if available, its location and the jurisdiction it covers, [1] the dates during which it was used for each such jurisdiction, and, if applicable the person for whom it was named, and the date of renaming.
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 18:58, 17 April 2018: 620 × 402 (768 KB): BenbowInn: DC and FED are circuits too, added black circles to emphasize them, also converted to plain SVG