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Within Texas' modern boundaries, the county included the Trans-Pecos and most of the Panhandle. The county was abolished when Texas ceded its western lands under the Compromise of 1850. Wegefarth County, formed in 1873 in the Texas Panhandle and abolished in 1876. Worth County, formed in 1850 from part of Santa Fe County.
Texline is a town in northwestern Dallam County, Texas, United States. Its population was 448 at the 2020 census. [4] The town is named for its location near the New Mexico-Texas state line. The town sits on U.S. Highway 87, which continues southeast towards Dalhart and northwest towards Clayton, New Mexico.
State Line is an unincorporated community in Culberson County, Texas, United States. [1] According to the Handbook of Texas , the community had a population of 18 in 2000. History
Texas does not have townships; areas within a county are either incorporated or unincorporated. Incorporated areas are part of a city, though the city may contract with the county for needed services. Unincorporated areas are not part of a city; in these areas the county has authority for law enforcement and road maintenance.
Texas has an annual precipitation range from 60.57 inches (1,538 mm) in Jasper County, East Texas, to 9.43 inches (240 mm) in El Paso. The record high of 120 °F (49 °C) was reached at Seymour on 12 August 1936, and Monahans on 28 June 1994. The low also ties at −23 °F (−31 °C) in Tulia on 12 February 1899, and Seminole on 8 February 1933.
The Texas Land Survey System is often measured in Spanish Customary Units. The most important of these is the vara, which, while ambiguous in the past, was legally established to be exactly 33 + 1 ⁄ 3 inches (846.67 mm) long in June 1919. [2] The subdivision levels in Texas are as follows: [3]
Collin County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. It is part of the Dallas - Fort Worth - Arlington metropolitan statistical area , and a small part of Dallas is in the county. At the 2020 United States census , the county's population was 1,064,465, making it Texas's sixth-most populous county and the 43rd-largest county by population in ...
Dewitt's first rail line, the Gulf, Western Texas and Pacific, [23] extended to San Antonio. The San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway , [ 24 ] was the second line in the county. In 1907 the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway [ 25 ] came through Dewitt.