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Titus County is a county located in the northeastern region of the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 31,247. [1] Its county seat is Mount Pleasant. [2] The county is named for Andrew Jackson Titus, an early settler. Titus County comprises the Mount Pleasant micropolitan statistical area.
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The Texas General Land Office (GLO) is a state agency of the U.S. state of Texas, responsible for managing lands and mineral rights properties that are owned by the state. The GLO also manages and contributes to the state's Permanent School Fund. The agency is headquartered in the Stephen F. Austin State Office Building in Downtown Austin. [1]
Texas has a total of 254 counties, by far the largest number of counties of any state. Each county is run by a five-member Commissioners' Court consisting of four commissioners elected from single-member districts (called commissioner precincts) and a county judge elected at-large. The county judge does not have authority to veto a decision of ...
The United States General Land Office was an independent agency of the United States government responsible for public domain lands in the United States. It was created in 1812, and it merged with the United States Grazing Service in 1946 to become the Bureau of Land Management .
Thomas William Ward, a commissioner for the General Land Office of Texas and mayor of Austin, Texas 10,966: 836 sq mi (2,165 km 2) Washington County: 477: Brenham: 1836: One of the original 23 counties: George Washington, the first president of the United States (1789–1797) 37,007: 609 sq mi (1,577 km 2) Webb County: 479: Laredo: 1848: Nueces ...
Mount Pleasant is a nationally recognized Texas Main Street City under the program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. One of the largest Dr. Pepper murals in the United States is located on the side of a building that once housed the Masonic lodge upstairs, and a grocery store downstairs.
Dawn Buckingham (February 21, 1968) is an American physician and politician who has served as Land Commissioner of Texas since 2023. She was elected in November 2022 and sworn in on January 10, 2023.