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John Lafayette Camp (1828–1891), a Texas state senator 13,000: 198 sq mi (513 km 2) Carson County: 065: Panhandle: 1876: Bexar County: Samuel Price Carson, the first secretary of state of the Republic of Texas (1836–1838) 5,878: 923 sq mi (2,391 km 2) Cass County: 067: Linden: 1846: Bowie County Named Davis County from 1861 to 1871
The list of rivers of Texas is a list of all named waterways, including rivers and streams that partially pass through or are entirely located within the U.S. state of Texas. Across the state, there are 3,700 named streams and 15 major rivers accounting for over 191,000 mi (307,000 km) of waterways.
Bosque County (/ ˈ b ɒ s k i / BOSS-kee) is a county located in the greater Waco area. The county sits just northwest of Waco in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, the population was 18,235. [1] [2] Its county seat is Meridian, [3] while Clifton is the largest city and the cultural/financial center of the county.
The Bosque River (/ ˈ b ɒ s k i / BOS-kee) is a 115-mile (185.1 km) long river in Central Texas fed by four primary branches. The longest branch, the North Bosque, forms near Stephenville, and flows toward Waco through Hamilton, Bosque and McLennan counties. It is subsequently joined by the East Bosque in Bosque County and the Middle and ...
Several governors of Texas hailed from McLennan County: Ann Richards (1991–1995), the state's second female governor; Pat Morris Neff (1921–1925), who also served as president of Baylor University; Lawrence Sullivan Ross (1887–1891), whose family helped found Waco and who also served as the fourth president of Texas A&M University; and ...
The county is also near Waco, so Waco/Temple/Killeen stations also provide coverage for Navarro County. These include: KCEN-TV, KWTX-TV, KXXV-TV, KDYW, and KWKT-TV. East Texas NBC affiliate KETK-TV from the Jacksonville/Tyler area provides coverage for Navarro County, as well. The Corsicana Daily Sun is the area's newspaper.
Like many Texas rivers this season, the Neches, which flows southeast from Van Zandt County to meet the Sabine River at Sabine Lake near Port Arthur, is running low.
Grimes County is a county located in southeastern Texas, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 29,268. [1] The seat of the county is Anderson. [2] The county was formed from Montgomery County in 1846. [3] It is named for Jesse Grimes, a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence and early European-American settler of the ...