Counties in Texas that I have Visited

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.

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Twelve Mile Circle Articles Featuring Places in Texas

Markers designate the Texas locations featured in Twelve Mile Circle articles.

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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.

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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 Although infrequent, counties sometimes do change so please let me know if any of this information is out of date and I will update it.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.

1. 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
2. Andrews
3. Angelina
4. Aransas
5. Archer
6. Armstrong
7. Atascosa
8. Austin: Not the City
9. Bailey
10. Bandera
11. Bastrop
12. Baylor
13. Bee
14. Bell: Texas Borderlocking
15. Bexar: Penciling-In Reagan; Damfino; World’s Fair Towers; Blue Star Brewing Company; Brief Stop in San Antonio; Residual Braniff
16. Blanco
17. Borden: Condensed Texas
18. Bosque: What’s the Meridian?
19. Bowie: Cross-Country; Bostonian Confusion; Bordersplit; In Them Old Cotton Fields; Smokey and the Bandit Route; Red River Border
20. Brazoria: Capitol of Texas Park
21. Brazos
22. Brewster: Big Bend National Park; Largest county in Texas (6,193 square miles).
23. Briscoe
24. Brooks
25. Brown
26. Burleson
27. Burnet: Longhorn Cavern; Texas Borderlocking
28. Caldwell
29. Calhoun
30. Callahan
31. Cameron: Colonias; Border Station Extremes
32. Camp: Named Like a Whole Other Country
33. Carson
34. Cass: Named Like a Whole Other Country
35. Castro
36. Chambers
37. Cherokee
38. Childress
39. Clay
40. Cochran
41. Coke
42. Coleman
43. Collin: First Name, Surname Symmetry; Collin Co. Jog; Letter: October 10, 1861, Near Plano, Collin County, Texas
44. Collingsworth
45. Colorado: Named Like a Whole Other Country; Condensed Texas
46. Comal: Low Clearance; Natural Bridges
47. Comanche
48. ConchoL Manly Places
49. Cooke
50. Coryell: Texas Borderlocking
51. Cottle: Highest Religious Affiliation
52. Crane
53. Crockett: Not the City
54. Crosby
55. Culberson: Van Horn
56. Dallam: NM-OK-TX Tripoint; Mainly Marathons; Dalhart
57. 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
58. Dawson: Farm to Market Roads
59. De Witt
60. Deaf Smith
61. Delta
62. Denton
63. Dickens
64. Dimmit
65. Donley
66. Duval
67. Eastland: Carbon
68. Ector
69. Edwards
70. El Paso: Leap Year Capital of the World; The Country Club Dispute; Bordersplit; What State U; Rt. 375 Loop
71. Ellis: Bluebonnet Trail
72. Erath: Hundred Dollar Hamburger
73. Falls: Texas Borderlocking
74. Fannin: Letter: March? 1864, Bonham, Fannin County, Texas; Letter: March 27, 1864, Bonham, Fannin County, Texas
75. Fayette
76. Fisher
77. Floyd
78. Foard
79. Fort Bend
80. Franklin
81. Freestone
82. Frio
83. Gaines
84. Galveston
85. Garza
86. Gillespie: Presidential Distances; Fredericksburg Brewing Company
87. Glasscock
88. Goliad
89. Gonzales: Presidential Places; Farm to Market Roads
90. Gray
91. Grayson: More Geo-BREWities
92. Gregg
93. Grimes
94. Guadalupe
95. Hale
96. Hall: Named Like a Whole Other Country; Thanksgiving Towns
97. Hamilton
98. Hansford
99. Hardeman
100. Harding
101. 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
102. Harrison
103. Hartley: Mainly Marathons; Dalhart
104. Haskell
105. Hays: Wonder World Park
106. Hemphill: Random Canadian
107. Henderson
108. Hidalgo: Interstate Highway Counties
109. Hill
110. Hockley
111. Hood
112. Hopkins
113. Houston
114. Howard
115. Hudspeth: What the Dell?
116. Hunt
117. Hutchinson
118. Irion
119. Jackson
120. Jackson
121. Jasper
122. Jeff Davis: Intersects with Mexico at a single point (only county in the United States with that characteristic); Jeff Davis; Time Zone Limits
123. Jefferson
124. Jim Hogg: Full Names
125. Jim Wells
126. Johnson
127. Jones
128. Karnes
129. Kaufman
130. Kendall: Creative Marketing
131. Kenedy: Not Quite Obscure Enough; More Land than People
132. Kent
133. Kerr
134. Kimble
135. King: Not Quite Obscure Enough
136. Kinney
137. Kleberg
138. Knox
139. La Salle: No, Not That One
140. Lamar
141. Lamb: Solar System
142. Lampasas: Texas Borderlocking
143. Lavaca: Sweet Home, uh…; Spoetzl Brewery
144. Lee
145. Leon: More Than a Game
146. Liberty
147. Limestone: Texas Borderlocking
148. Lipscomb
149. Live Oak
150. Llano: Atlantis Lite
151. Loving: Smallest county population in Texas and the United States (67 people in 2000 Census); Is Everything Really Bigger in Texas?
152. Lubbock
153. Lynn
154. Madison
155. Marion
156. Martin
157. Mason
158. Matagorda
159. Maverick
160. McCulloch
161. McLennan: Czech Stop; Texas Borderlocking
162. McMullen
163. Medina
164. Menard
165. Midland: Make Tracks to Midland
166. Milam
167. Mills: Texas Borderlocking
168. Mitchell
169. Montague
170. Montgomery
171. Moore: Cactus
172. Morris
173. Motley
174. Nacogdoches
175. Navarro
176. Newton
177. Nolan: Rainbow
178. Nueces: Residual Braniff
179. Ochiltree
180. Oldham
181. Orange: Is Everything Really Bigger in Texas?; Wetlands Rest Stop
182. Palo Pinto: Carbon
183. Panola: Shooting for H; The Hull Homes through the Years (Edwin Alonzo Hull family); Tex Ritter Museum
184. Parker: Weatherford Art Thou?
185. Parmer
186. Pecos
187. Polk
188. Potter
189. Presidio
190. Rains
191. Randall
192. Reagan
193. Real
194. Red River: Letter: January 24, 1862, Camp McKnight, Red River County, Texas
195. Reeves: Longest Distance in an Hour
196. Refugio
197. Roberts: More Land than People
198. Robertson
199. Rockwall: Smallest county in Texas (129 square miles); Is Everything Really Bigger in Texas?
200. Runnels
201. Rusk
202. Sabine: Adjacent Counties, Same Name, Different States
203. San Augustine
204. San Jacinto
205. San Patricio
206. San Saba
207. Schleicher
208. Scurry
209. Shackelford
210. Shelby: Center of Power; Tenaha, Timpson, Bobo, and Blair
211. Sherman
212. Smith: The Other White House
213. Somervell
214. Starr
215. Stephens
216. Sterling
217. Stonewall
218. Sutton
219. Swisher
220. Tarrant
221. Taylor
222. Terrell
223. Terry
224. Throckmorton
225. Titus
226. Tom Gree: The Merrick Stripn
227. Travis: Bitter End Bistro & Brewery
228. Trinity: TGIF
229. Tyler
230. Upshur
231. Upton
232. Uvalde: Welcome to Utopia
233. Val Verde: There’s a Juno in Texas but not in Alaska
234. Van Zandt
235. Victoria
236. Walker
237. Waller
238. Ward
239. Washington: Birthplace of Texas
240. Webb: 7 Flags Over Texas?; Colonias
241. Wharton
242. Wheeler
243. Wichita
244. Wilbarger
245. Willacy: Barrier Island Superlatives
246. Williamson: Hairy Man
247. Wilson
248. Winkler
249. Wise
250. Wood
251. Yoakum
252. Young
253. Zapata: Border Pirates
254. Zavala: Popeye the Sailor Man

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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.