There are 254 Counties in Texas – “The Lone Star State“
Also be sure to see my United States County Counting Page for the rest of the states.
I have visited 69 Counties = 27.2% of Counties in Texas
Counties visited are colored-in; counties still needing to be visited are blank. Map created using Mob Rule.
Twelve Mile Circle Articles Featuring Places in Texas
Markers designate the Texas locations featured in Twelve Mile Circle articles.
Interesting Texas county trivia
Texas has by far the most counties of any in the United States. It’s closest competitor, Georgia, has almost a hundred fewer.
Counties in Texas
Below are the 254 counties in Texas. Although infrequent, counties sometimes do change so please let me know if any of this information is out of date and I will update it. Those counties that I have visited are highlighted in Red. Readers can also link to any articles manually in this section if the map isn’t working.
- Anderson: Letter 1: August 9, 1864, Kickapoo, Anderson Co., Texas; Letter 2: August 9, 1864, Kickapoo, Anderson Co., Texas; Letter 3: August 9, 1864, Kickapoo, Anderson Co., Texas; Letter: August 15, 1864, Kickapoo, Anderson Co., Texas; Letter: November 29, 1864, Anderson Co., Texas; Letter: February 18, 1865, Anderson Co., Texas
- Andrews
- Angelina
- Aransas
- Archer
- Armstrong
- Atascosa
- Austin: Not the City
- Bailey
- Bandera
- Bastrop
- Baylor
- Bee
- Bell: Texas Borderlocking
- Bexar: Penciling-In Reagan; Damfino; World’s Fair Towers; Blue Star Brewing Company; Brief Stop in San Antonio; Residual Braniff
- Blanco
- Borden: Condensed Texas
- Bosque: What’s the Meridian?
- Bowie: Cross-Country; Bostonian Confusion; Bordersplit; In Them Old Cotton Fields; Smokey and the Bandit Route; Red River Border
- Brazoria: Capitol of Texas Park
- Brazos
- Brewster: Big Bend National Park; Largest county in Texas (6,193 square miles).
- Briscoe
- Brooks
- Brown
- Burleson
- Burnet: Longhorn Cavern; Texas Borderlocking
- Caldwell
- Calhoun
- Callahan
- Cameron: Colonias; Border Station Extremes
- Camp: Named Like a Whole Other Country
- Carson
- Cass: Named Like a Whole Other Country
- Castro
- Chambers
- Cherokee
- Childress
- Clay
- Cochran
- Coke
- Coleman
- Collin: First Name, Surname Symmetry; Collin Co. Jog; Letter: October 10, 1861, Near Plano, Collin County, Texas
- Collingsworth
- Colorado: Named Like a Whole Other Country; Condensed Texas
- Comal: Low Clearance; Natural Bridges
- Comanche
- ConchoL Manly Places
- Cooke
- Coryell: Texas Borderlocking
- Cottle: Highest Religious Affiliation
- Crane
- Crockett: Not the City
- Crosby
- Culberson: Van Horn
- Dallam: NM-OK-TX Tripoint; Mainly Marathons; Dalhart
- Dallas: Dallas Park Cooperative Housing; Cigarette Hill; The Grassy Knoll; Gary Coleman on the Grassy Knoll; Goin’ Down to Garland; Small Change, Big Difference; Welcome to Utopia; Mutual Ownership Defense Housing; Residual Braniff
- Dawson: Farm to Market Roads
- De Witt
- Deaf Smith
- Delta
- Denton
- Dickens
- Dimmit
- Donley
- Duval
- Eastland: Carbon
- Ector
- Edwards
- El Paso: Leap Year Capital of the World; The Country Club Dispute; Bordersplit; What State U; Rt. 375 Loop
- Ellis: Bluebonnet Trail
- Erath: Hundred Dollar Hamburger
- Falls: Texas Borderlocking
- Fannin: Letter: March? 1864, Bonham, Fannin County, Texas; Letter: March 27, 1864, Bonham, Fannin County, Texas
- Fayette
- Fisher
- Floyd
- Foard
- Fort Bend
- Franklin
- Freestone
- Frio
- Gaines
- Galveston
- Garza
- Gillespie: Presidential Distances; Fredericksburg Brewing Company
- Glasscock
- Goliad
- Gonzales: Presidential Places; Farm to Market Roads
- Gray
- Grayson: More Geo-BREWities
- Gregg
- Grimes
- Guadalupe
- Hale
- Hall: Named Like a Whole Other Country; Thanksgiving Towns
- Hamilton
- Hansford
- Hardeman
- Harding
- Harris: Largest county population in Texas (3,400,578 people in 2000 Census); 1940 Air Terminal Museum; Eruvin; He Went Thata Way; Heterodox View; International Capitals in the USA; Johnson Space Center; Neutral Buoyancy Lab; Residual Braniff
- Harrison
- Hartley: Mainly Marathons; Dalhart
- Haskell
- Hays: Wonder World Park
- Hemphill: Random Canadian
- Henderson
- Hidalgo: Interstate Highway Counties
- Hill
- Hockley
- Hood
- Hopkins
- Houston
- Howard
- Hudspeth: What the Dell?
- Hunt
- Hutchinson
- Irion
- Jackson
- Jackson
- Jasper
- Jeff Davis: Intersects with Mexico at a single point (only county in the United States with that characteristic); Jeff Davis; Time Zone Limits
- Jefferson
- Jim Hogg: Full Names
- Jim Wells
- Johnson
- Jones
- Karnes
- Kaufman
- Kendall: Creative Marketing
- Kenedy: Not Quite Obscure Enough; More Land than People
- Kent
- Kerr
- Kimble
- King: Not Quite Obscure Enough
- Kinney
- Kleberg
- Knox
- La Salle: No, Not That One
- Lamar
- Lamb: Solar System
- Lampasas: Texas Borderlocking
- Lavaca: Sweet Home, uh…; Spoetzl Brewery
- Lee
- Leon: More Than a Game
- Liberty
- Limestone: Texas Borderlocking
- Lipscomb
- Live Oak
- Llano: Atlantis Lite
- Loving: Smallest county population in Texas and the United States (67 people in 2000 Census); Is Everything Really Bigger in Texas?
- Lubbock
- Lynn
- Madison
- Marion
- Martin
- Mason
- Matagorda
- Maverick
- McCulloch
- McLennan: Czech Stop; Texas Borderlocking
- McMullen
- Medina
- Menard
- Midland: Make Tracks to Midland
- Milam
- Mills: Texas Borderlocking
- Mitchell
- Montague
- Montgomery
- Moore: Cactus
- Morris
- Motley
- Nacogdoches
- Navarro
- Newton
- Nolan: Rainbow
- Nueces: Residual Braniff
- Ochiltree
- Oldham
- Orange: Is Everything Really Bigger in Texas?; Wetlands Rest Stop
- Palo Pinto: Carbon
- Panola: Shooting for H; The Hull Homes through the Years (Edwin Alonzo Hull family); Tex Ritter Museum
- Parker: Weatherford Art Thou?
- Parmer
- Pecos
- Polk
- Potter
- Presidio
- Rains
- Randall
- Reagan
- Real
- Red River: Letter: January 24, 1862, Camp McKnight, Red River County, Texas
- Reeves: Longest Distance in an Hour
- Refugio
- Roberts: More Land than People
- Robertson
- Rockwall: Smallest county in Texas (129 square miles); Is Everything Really Bigger in Texas?
- Runnels
- Rusk
- Sabine: Adjacent Counties, Same Name, Different States
- San Augustine
- San Jacinto
- San Patricio
- San Saba
- Schleicher
- Scurry
- Shackelford
- Shelby: Center of Power; Tenaha, Timpson, Bobo, and Blair
- Sherman
- Smith: The Other White House
- Somervell
- Starr
- Stephens
- Sterling
- Stonewall
- Sutton
- Swisher
- Tarrant
- Taylor
- Terrell
- Terry
- Throckmorton
- Titus
- Tom Gree: The Merrick Stripn
- Travis: Bitter End Bistro & Brewery
- Trinity: TGIF
- Tyler
- Upshur
- Upton
- Uvalde: Welcome to Utopia
- Val Verde: There’s a Juno in Texas but not in Alaska
- Van Zandt
- Victoria
- Walker
- Waller
- Ward
- Washington: Birthplace of Texas
- Webb: 7 Flags Over Texas?; Colonias
- Wharton
- Wheeler
- Wichita
- Wilbarger
- Willacy: Barrier Island Superlatives
- Williamson: Hairy Man
- Wilson
- Winkler
- Wise
- Wood
- Yoakum
- Young
- Zapata: Border Pirates
- Zavala: Popeye the Sailor Man
Quick Facts About Texas
- Location: West South Central United States. See map above.
- Size(1): 261,232 square miles. Texas is the 2nd largest state. The only larger state is Alaska and the next smaller state is California.
- Population(2): 28,701,845 people. Texas is the 2nd most populous state. The only more populous state is California and the next less populous state is Florida.
- Population Density: 109.9 people per square mile. Texas is the 24th most densely populated state. The next more densely populated state is Kentucky and the next less densely populated state is Louisiana.
- Bordering States: Texas shares a border with 4 states: Oklahoma; New Mexico; Louisiana and Arkansas.
- Admission to the Union: December 29, 1845. Texas was the 28th state admitted to the Union, after Florida and before Iowa.
- Capital: Austin.
- Highest Point: 8,749 at Guadalupe Peak. See SummitPost’s Guadalupe Peak page.
- Lowest Point: Sea Level at the Gulf of Mexico.
- Government website: State of Texas Web Site.
- Official Tourism website: TravelTex Home.
- Still not enough? See Wikipedia’s Texas page.
Sources:
(1) Wikipedia: List of U.S. states and territories by area. Land area only.
(2) Wikipedia: List of states and territories of the United States by population. Estimated population on July 1, 2019.
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