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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling_K%C5%ABn_(Texas)" title="Sterling Kūn (Texas) – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Sterling Kūn (Texas)" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%82%D1%8D%D1%80%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%B3_(%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%B0,_%D0%A2%D1%8D%D1%85%D0%B0%D1%81)" title="Стэрлінг (акруга, Тэхас) – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Стэрлінг (акруга, Тэхас)" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%82%D1%8A%D1%80%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3_(%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%80%D1%8A%D0%B3,_%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%81)" title="Стърлинг (окръг, Тексас) – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Стърлинг (окръг, Тексас)" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bar mw-list-item"><a href="https://bar.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling_County,_Texas" title="Sterling County, Texas – Bavarian" lang="bar" hreflang="bar" data-title="Sterling County, Texas" data-language-autonym="Boarisch" data-language-local-name="Bavarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Boarisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling_County" title="Sterling County – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Sterling County" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling_County" title="Sterling County – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Sterling County" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tum mw-list-item"><a href="https://tum.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling_County,_Texas" title="Sterling County, Texas – Tumbuka" lang="tum" hreflang="tum" data-title="Sterling County, Texas" data-language-autonym="ChiTumbuka" data-language-local-name="Tumbuka" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ChiTumbuka</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling_County,_Texas" title="Sterling County, Texas – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Sterling County, Texas" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling_County" title="Sterling County – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Sterling County" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterlingi_maakond" title="Sterlingi maakond – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Sterlingi maakond" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condado_de_Sterling" title="Condado de Sterling – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Condado de Sterling" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kantono_Sterling_(Teksaso)" title="Kantono Sterling (Teksaso) – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Kantono Sterling (Teksaso)" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling_konderria_(Texas)" title="Sterling konderria (Texas) – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Sterling konderria (Texas)" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF%D8%8C_%D8%AA%DA%AF%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%B3" title="شهرستان استرلینگ، تگزاس – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="شهرستان استرلینگ، تگزاس" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Sterling" title="Comté de Sterling – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Comté de Sterling" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contae_Sterling,_Texas" title="Contae Sterling, Texas – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Contae Sterling, Texas" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-glk mw-list-item"><a href="https://glk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF_%D9%9A_%D8%B4%D8%A3%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86_(%D8%AA%DA%AF%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%B3)" title="استرلینگ ٚ شأرستان (تگزاس) – Gilaki" lang="glk" hreflang="glk" data-title="استرلینگ ٚ شأرستان (تگزاس)" data-language-autonym="گیلکی" data-language-local-name="Gilaki" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>گیلکی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%8A%A4%ED%84%B8%EB%A7%81%EA%B5%B0" title="스털링군 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="스털링군" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8D%D5%BF%D5%A5%D5%BC%D5%AC%D5%AB%D5%B6%D5%A3_%D5%B7%D6%80%D5%BB%D5%A1%D5%B6_(%D5%8F%D5%A5%D5%AD%D5%A1%D5%BD)" title="Ստեռլինգ շրջան (Տեխաս) – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Ստեռլինգ շրջան (Տեխաս)" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bpy mw-list-item"><a href="https://bpy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9F%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%82_%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%BF,_%E0%A6%9F%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B8" title="স্টের্লিং কাউন্টি, টেক্সাস – Bishnupriya" lang="bpy" hreflang="bpy" data-title="স্টের্লিং কাউন্টি, টেক্সাস" data-language-autonym="বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী" data-language-local-name="Bishnupriya" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contea_di_Sterling" title="Contea di Sterling – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Contea di Sterling" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A1%E1%83%A2%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98%E1%83%9C%E1%83%92%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1_%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9A%E1%83%A5%E1%83%98_(%E1%83%A2%E1%83%94%E1%83%AE%E1%83%90%E1%83%A1%E1%83%98)" title="სტერლინგის ოლქი (ტეხასი) – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="სტერლინგის ოლქი (ტეხასი)" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling_Comitatus" title="Sterling Comitatus – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Sterling Comitatus" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling_megye" title="Sterling megye – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Sterling megye" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mzn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF_%D8%B4%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86_(%D8%AA%DA%AF%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%B3)" title="استرلینگ شهرستان (تگزاس) – Mazanderani" lang="mzn" hreflang="mzn" data-title="استرلینگ شهرستان (تگزاس)" data-language-autonym="مازِرونی" data-language-local-name="Mazanderani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مازِرونی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cdo mw-list-item"><a href="https://cdo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling_G%C3%B4ng_(Texas)" title="Sterling Gông (Texas) – Mindong" lang="cdo" hreflang="cdo" data-title="Sterling Gông (Texas)" data-language-autonym="閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄" data-language-local-name="Mindong" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling_County" title="Sterling County – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Sterling County" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E9%83%A1_(%E3%83%86%E3%82%AD%E3%82%B5%E3%82%B9%E5%B7%9E)" title="スターリング郡 (テキサス州) – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="スターリング郡 (テキサス州)" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling_County" title="Sterling County – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Sterling County" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%B9%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%86%DA%AF_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%A4%D9%86%D9%B9%DB%8C" title="سٹرلنگ کاؤنٹی – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="سٹرلنگ کاؤنٹی" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nds mw-list-item"><a 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.ib-settlement .maptable{border:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .infobox-header,.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .infobox-below{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .infobox-above{font-size:125%;line-height:1.3em}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .infobox-subheader{background-color:#cddeff;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-native{font-weight:normal;padding-top:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-other-name{font-size:78%}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-official{font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-caption{padding:0.3em 0 0 0}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-caption-link{padding:0.2em 0}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-nickname{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-fn{font-weight:normal;display:inline}</style><table class="infobox ib-settlement vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above"><div class="fn org">Sterling County</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><div class="category"><a href="/wiki/County_(United_States)" title="County (United States)">County</a></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sterling_County,_TX,_Courthouse_IMG_1405.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Sterling County Court House off U.S. Highway 87 in Sterling City"><img alt="Sterling County Court House off U.S. Highway 87 in Sterling City" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Sterling_County%2C_TX%2C_Courthouse_IMG_1405.JPG/250px-Sterling_County%2C_TX%2C_Courthouse_IMG_1405.JPG" decoding="async" width="250" height="188" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Sterling_County%2C_TX%2C_Courthouse_IMG_1405.JPG/375px-Sterling_County%2C_TX%2C_Courthouse_IMG_1405.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Sterling_County%2C_TX%2C_Courthouse_IMG_1405.JPG/500px-Sterling_County%2C_TX%2C_Courthouse_IMG_1405.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4320" data-file-height="3240" /></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption">Sterling County Court House off <a href="/wiki/U.S._Highway_87" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Highway 87">U.S. Highway 87</a> in Sterling City</div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Map_of_Texas_highlighting_Sterling_County.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Location within the U.S. state of Texas"><img alt="Map of Texas highlighting Sterling County" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Map_of_Texas_highlighting_Sterling_County.svg/300px-Map_of_Texas_highlighting_Sterling_County.svg.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="285" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Map_of_Texas_highlighting_Sterling_County.svg/450px-Map_of_Texas_highlighting_Sterling_County.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Map_of_Texas_highlighting_Sterling_County.svg/600px-Map_of_Texas_highlighting_Sterling_County.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1386" data-file-height="1317" /></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption">Location within the U.S. state of <a href="/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Texas_in_United_States.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Texas's location within the U.S."><img alt="Map of the United States highlighting Texas" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Texas_in_United_States.svg/300px-Texas_in_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="186" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Texas_in_United_States.svg/450px-Texas_in_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, 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class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">31°49′N</span> <span class="longitude">101°03′W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">31.82°N 101.05°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">31.82; -101.05</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 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class="infobox-data">1891</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Namesake" title="Namesake">Named for</a></th><td class="infobox-data">W. S. Sterling, an early settler</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/County_seat" title="County seat">Seat</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sterling_City,_Texas" title="Sterling City, Texas">Sterling City</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Largest city</th><td class="infobox-data">Sterling City</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Area<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">924 sq mi (2,390 km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Land</th><td class="infobox-data">923 sq mi (2,390 km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Water</th><td class="infobox-data">0.1 sq mi (0.3 km<sup>2</sup>)  0.01%</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Population<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><span class="nowrap"> </span>(<a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_census" title="2020 United States census">2020</a>)</div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">1,372</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Density</th><td class="infobox-data">1.5/sq mi (0.57/km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Time_zone" title="Time zone">Time zone</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%E2%88%926" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC−6">UTC−6</a> (<a href="/wiki/Central_Time_Zone" title="Central Time Zone">Central</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"> • Summer (<a href="/wiki/Daylight_saving_time" title="Daylight saving time">DST</a>)</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%E2%88%925" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC−5">UTC−5</a> (<a href="/wiki/Central_Time_Zone" title="Central Time Zone">CDT</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Congressional district</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Texas%27s_11th_congressional_district" title="Texas's 11th congressional district">11th</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.co.sterling.tx.us">www<wbr />.co<wbr />.sterling<wbr />.tx<wbr />.us</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Sterling County</b> is a <a href="/wiki/County_(United_States)" title="County (United States)">county</a> located on the <a href="/wiki/Edwards_Plateau" title="Edwards Plateau">Edwards Plateau</a> in the <a href="/wiki/U.S._state" title="U.S. state">U.S. state</a> of <a href="/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a>. As of the <a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_Census" class="mw-redirect" title="2020 United States Census">2020 census</a>, its population was 1,372,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> making it the ninth-least populous county in Texas. Its <a href="/wiki/County_seat" title="County seat">county seat</a> is <a href="/wiki/Sterling_City,_Texas" title="Sterling City, Texas">Sterling City</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-GR6_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GR6-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The county is named for W. S. Sterling, an early settler in the area. Sterling County was one of 30 prohibition, or entirely <a href="/wiki/Dry_counties" class="mw-redirect" title="Dry counties">dry</a>, counties in the state of Texas, but is now a moist county.<sup id="cite_ref-Wet/Dry_Status_of_Texas_Counties_November_2010_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wet/Dry_Status_of_Texas_Counties_November_2010-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sterling_County,_Texas&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Native_Americans">Native Americans</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sterling_County,_Texas&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Native Americans"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Original native <a href="/wiki/Plains_Indians" title="Plains Indians">Plains Indians</a> included <a href="/wiki/Comanche" title="Comanche">Comanche</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lipan_Apache_people" title="Lipan Apache people">Lipan Apache</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kiowa" title="Kiowa">Kiowa</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Kickapoo_people" title="Kickapoo people">Kickapoo</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Sterling_County_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sterling_County-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The region had a number of violent encounters between the <a href="/wiki/Comanche" title="Comanche">Comanche</a>, local ranchmen, and <a href="/wiki/Texas_Ranger_Division" title="Texas Ranger Division">Texas Rangers</a>. A deadly skirmish occurred in the 1870s between area ranchmen and the Comanche on the Lacy Creek on the present day Campstool Ranch. “The Fight at Live Oak Mott” is an account of the events as written by W.K. Kellis, in the Sterling City <i>News-Record</i>, and later published in <i>Frontier Times</i> by J. Marvin Hunter. In 1879, the last significant battle between the Texas Rangers and the Comanche occurred on the "U" Ranch, at the time the ranch was owned by Earnest and Holland. The Comanches, led by the Quahada chief named <a href="/wiki/Black_Horse_(Comanche)" title="Black Horse (Comanche)">Black Horse</a>, left Fort Sill, Oklahoma, on May 29 with a group of 19 braves in a search for buffalo, and by June 29, they had yet to find any buffalo, so they killed a horse on the "U" Ranch, near the headwaters of the <a href="/wiki/Concho_River" title="Concho River">Concho River</a> in <a href="/wiki/Howard_County,_Texas" title="Howard County, Texas">Howard County</a>, and an ensuing battle with the Texas Rangers soon followed. (I claim that this entire "raid" was probably not by Comanches—possibly by Apaches—but most likely non-Indian horse thieves. It was a cover-up of the mysterious killing of a Texas Ranger. And for the first time in Ranger history several of them were fired for cowardice. --Doyle Phillips) <sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_settlements">Early settlements</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sterling_County,_Texas&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Early settlements"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Although the county was part of the 1842 <a href="/wiki/Fisher%E2%80%93Miller_Land_Grant" title="Fisher–Miller Land Grant">Fisher–Miller Land Grant</a>, no resulting settlement happened in the area.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Fur_trade" title="Fur trade">Fur traders</a>, Texas Rangers, and federal troops passed through the area between 1800 and 1860. Settlers began arriving after the <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>, after the demise of the <a href="/wiki/American_Bison" class="mw-redirect" title="American Bison">buffalo</a> herds and the departure of Indian tribes.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Indian fighter and buffalo hunter W. S. Sterling settled in the area around 1858. Two decades later, Sterling became a <a href="/wiki/United_States_Marshals_Service" title="United States Marshals Service">U.S. Marshal</a> in <a href="/wiki/Arizona" title="Arizona">Arizona</a> and was killed in an <a href="/wiki/Apache" title="Apache">Apache</a> ambush near <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Apache" title="Battle of Fort Apache">Fort Apache</a>. Fellow buffalo hunter S. J. Wiley also settled in the county about the same time as Sterling.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to legend, Frank and Jesse James hid out on Sterling Creek in the 1870s to raise horses and hunt buffalo.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Camp Elizabeth began as a Texas Ranger camp <i>circa</i> 1853. It became an outpost hospital facility of <a href="/wiki/Fort_Concho" title="Fort Concho">Fort Concho</a> in 1874–1886.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Open_rangeland">Open rangeland</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sterling_County,_Texas&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Open rangeland"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During the era of the open range, the acreage owned by the large land and cattle outfits did not adjoin other pasturelands that were already owned, creating a checkered pattern of land ownership. This pattern was attributed to the system that allocated land between the railway companies and the State of Texas. The railway companies were given the odd-numbered sections (surveys), contingent upon surveying the entire block of land (townships), and the state retained ownership of the even-numbered sections. Thus, for each section it received, a railroad company had to survey an adjoining 640 acres for the state, and the railway companies were required to sell the land within 12 years of the initial survey. As a result, the large cattle ranches, often having the earliest presence in the area, initially consisted only of the odd-numbered sections within each block until adjoining acreage was acquired from the State of Texas, such as those lands sold by the Common School Fund. </p><p>The checkered pattern of land ownership did not create many problems during the time of the open range, as the large cattle outfits “controlled” vast amounts of open rangeland for grazing and could move cattle from pasture to pasture without having to compensate any other land owner or even the State. </p><p>However, after the large influx of settlers, the building of fences, and the restricted access to surface waters during drought, tensions escalated between the settlers and established cattle outfits and eventually lead to the Fence Cutting Wars. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ranching">Ranching</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sterling_County,_Texas&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Ranching"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the 1870s, the area was dominated by large land and cattle outfits such as the Half Circle S, established by the Peacock brothers; the MS, set up by Schuster, Henry, and Company; and the "U" Ranch, established by J.D. Earnest and W.J. Holland. </p><p>In 1880, Colonel William Randolph McEntire purchased the 80,000-acre (325-km<sup>2</sup>) "U" Ranch from M.B. Stephenson. Established in 1876 by J.D. Earnest and W.J. Holland, and later sold to M.B. Stephenson in 1879, the "U" Ranch was the first ranch established west of <a href="/wiki/San_Angelo,_Texas" title="San Angelo, Texas">San Angelo</a> in <a href="/wiki/Tom_Green_County,_Texas" title="Tom Green County, Texas">Tom Green County, Texas</a>. The ranch was located about six miles northwest of <a href="/wiki/Sterling_City,_Texas" title="Sterling City, Texas">Sterling City</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Concho_River" title="Concho River">North Concho River</a> extending northwestward through <a href="/wiki/Glasscock_County,_Texas" title="Glasscock County, Texas">Glasscock County</a> to the headwaters of the river in <a href="/wiki/Howard_County,_Texas" title="Howard County, Texas">Howard County</a>, the Sterling Creek (headwaters to the mouth of the river) in the east/southeast, the <a href="/wiki/Spade_Ranch,_Texas" class="mw-redirect" title="Spade Ranch, Texas">Renderbrook Spade Ranch</a> in <a href="/wiki/Mitchell_County,_Texas" title="Mitchell County, Texas">Mitchell County</a> in the northeast and J.B. Slaughter's ranch in the northwest.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The ranch itself consisted of three headquarters - one on the Concho, one at the mouth of Sterling Creek and one at the headwaters of Sterling Creek - and were twelve to twenty-five miles apart. </p><p>After subsequent land acquisitions, the "U" Ranch was enlarged to include over 250,000 acres (1,000 km<sup>2</sup>) and eventually bordered the Seven-D Ranch in <a href="/wiki/Pecos_County,_Texas" title="Pecos County, Texas">Pecos County</a> in the south/southwest. During the era of the open range, the alternating "odd-numbered" sections of land retained by the State of Texas were freely accessible to the large cattle outfits that owned the "even-numbered" sections of land; therefore, the "U" Ranch controlled an additional 250,000 acres (1,000 km<sup>2</sup>) of rangeland, bringing the total amount of land owned or controlled by W.R. McEntire's "U" Ranch to roughly 500,000 acres (2,000 km<sup>2</sup>). During this time, the "U" Ranch grazed upwards of 50,000 head of cattle across five counties, with the cattle being driven to pasturage outside of Texas or to <a href="/wiki/Feedlot" title="Feedlot">cattle feedlots</a> to increase the animals' weight prior to the final drive to cattle markets in Fort Worth, Kansas City, Chicago, and St. Louis. </p><p>Large cattle drives to <a href="/wiki/Colorado_City,_Texas" title="Colorado City, Texas">Colorado City</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fort_Worth,_Texas" title="Fort Worth, Texas">Fort Worth</a> routinely occurred between 1875 and the mid-1880s, at a time the region was still open rangeland. The "U" Ranch drove the cattle northward to Colorado City, the nearest railroad, and shipped the cattle to Arkansas, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Marlow Indian Territory. In 1882, W.R. McEntire, <a href="/wiki/Wilson_Building_(Dallas,_Texas)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wilson Building (Dallas, Texas)">J.B. Wilson</a>, and C.C. Slaughter drove 89 carloads of cattle, mostly overland, to rangeland in Orin Junction, Wyoming that was controlled by the Driskill brothers, who also owned a <a href="/wiki/Driskill_Hotel" title="Driskill Hotel">hotel</a> in Austin, Texas. The cattle weighed 600 to 800 pounds upon arrival and within two years, they weighed almost 1,400 pounds each. By 1888, W.R. McEntire's eldest son, R. Billie McEntire, and his crew were responsible for driving the "U" Ranch cattle to new pasturage outside the state, or often experimenting with various feed types at the feedlots, and subsequently bringing those cattle to the markets as soon as certain market prices were attained. During his last cattle drive in 1893, they began experiencing inclement weather as soon as they left the "U" Ranch towards Colorado City and as they neared the <a href="/wiki/Spade_Ranch,_Texas" class="mw-redirect" title="Spade Ranch, Texas">Renderbrook Spade Ranch</a>, a snowy blizzard moved in from the north. R. Billie, knowing the owners, the Snyder brothers, cut the perimeter fence and drove over 1,000 head of cattle southward into the main horse pasture of the Renderbrook Spade Ranch while the McEntire crew weathered the storm at ranch headquarters over several days. With minimal losses after the blizzard, the McEntire crew continued the drive towards Colorado City and the feedlots in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. R. Billie kept the cattle at the feedlots for 10 months waiting for ideal market conditions in Fort Worth. In Arkansas, he married Eudora Fowler and subsequently moved to Dallas to work at American National Bank, which his father, W.R. McEntire, founded and controlled with C.C. Slaughter, the owner of the Lazy S Ranch. R.B. McEntire's younger brother, George, also followed the same path, learning finance at American National Bank in Dallas prior to returning to Sterling County and subsequently either assuming ownership or control of the ranch. </p><p>Between 1880 and 1900, W.R. McEntire acquired additional rangeland throughout Glasscock, Howard, Mitchell, Nolan, Sterling, Tom Green, and Reagan Counties, enlarging the "U" Ranch operations to include over 250,000 acres (1,000 km<sup>2</sup>) with approximately 105,000 acres (420 km<sup>2</sup>) located in <a href="/wiki/Glasscock_County,_Texas" title="Glasscock County, Texas">Glasscock</a> and <a href="/wiki/Reagan_County,_Texas" title="Reagan County, Texas">Reagan</a> Counties. The "U" Ranch now extended from 12 miles west of <a href="/wiki/Garden_City,_Texas" title="Garden City, Texas">Garden City</a> to <a href="/wiki/Grierson_Spring,_TX" class="mw-redirect" title="Grierson Spring, TX">Grierson's Spring</a> in Reagan County, included the section of the <a href="/wiki/Goodnight-Loving_Trail" class="mw-redirect" title="Goodnight-Loving Trail">Goodnight-Loving Trail</a> between the <a href="/wiki/Concho_River" title="Concho River">Concho</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pecos_River" title="Pecos River">Pecos</a> Rivers and bordered the Seven-D Ranch in the southwest. Grierson's Spring is located between the head of the Concho River and the Pecos River, about 15 miles southwest of <a href="/wiki/Big_Lake,_Texas" title="Big Lake, Texas">Big Lake</a> in Reagan County and 30 miles east of the Pecos River, while the Seven-D Ranch headquarters was located on Comanche Creek four miles east of Fort Stockton in central <a href="/wiki/Pecos_County,_Texas" title="Pecos County, Texas">Pecos County</a>. </p><p>Under the new homestead law, settlers began purchasing the “even-numbered” sections from the state for the benefit of the Common School Fund in 1883. In conjunction with the introduction of the fence, these settlers began owning land that was previously controlled by the large cattle outfits, and this eventually led to the Fence Cutting Wars. This acreage was sold by the state on a first-come, first-served basis with the county advertising the availability of land, which resulted in extremely long lines at the county clerks' offices and increased the likelihood that the desired acreage would not be available. As a result of Common School Fund process, W.R. McEntire, while in Dallas, sent representatives from Tom Green County to acquire as much land as possible and to keep others out of the line until the desired acreage was obtained. North Carolinian James Jefferson Lafayott Glass came to the county in 1883 and signed on with the Sterling Brothers’ Half Circle S outfit. He later homesteaded acreage along the Lacy Creek.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As the era of the open range began to conclude, W.R. McEntire realized that contiguous acreage would be increasingly important to the success of any cattle outfit, and he began quickly purchasing any available acreage with the prospect of establishing a buffer around the "U" Ranch, or selling or bartering that acquisition for adjoining acreage to his primary operation, either under a single operation and single fence line, or perhaps having access to large, disparate ranches that could provide the ability to easily move livestock between operations. As a reaction to the continued encroachment of squatters and homesteaders from the growing settlement of Sterling City, W.R. McEntire purchased 10,000 acres west of Sterling City in 1884, near the intersection of the Lacy Creek and Concho River. </p><p>In 1890, W.R. McEntire sold the 105,000 acres (420 km<sup>2</sup>) in Glasscock and Reagan Counties, including 3,000 head of cattle and 100 horses, to J.B. Slaughter, which subsequently became the first U Lazy S Ranch.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1898, J.B. Slaughter sold the acreage and moved his cattle and operations to his new U Lazy S Ranch in Borden and Garza Counties. </p><p>In 1896, R. Billie McEntire returned to Sterling County and purchased about 10,000 acres which adjoined the "U" Ranch headquarters and included portions of the Kennedy Ranch, Half Circle S Ranch, and the Peacock-Kellogg Horse Ranch. </p><p>The era of the large open-range cattle kings had come to a close by 1890, with the MS Ranch and Half Circle S Ranch being bankrupted, and the "U" Ranch in the process of being consolidated into contiguous acreage. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="U_Ranch_Legacy">U Ranch Legacy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sterling_County,_Texas&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: U Ranch Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The derivatives of W.R. McEntire's initial "U" Ranch are currently owned and operated as distinct ranches by his descendants. These ranches are the only remaining segments still in existence of the first large cattle outfit in the region. In 1906, W.R. McEntire divided his ranching estate between his two sons, R. Billie McEntire and George H. McEntire. His daughter, Lula Elizabeth McEntire, received title to the estate not associated with agriculture. </p><p>R. Billie McEntire received title to the Harrison Ranch in Dallas, and the n+ Ranch in Sterling County. He also received a cash advance from the dissolution of McEntire and Co. and from investments made in the American National Bank in Dallas. Of the same year, he purchased 10,000 acres in Nolan and Mitchell Counties, and moved his family to Colorado City, Texas, to send his children to school. Eventually, his four sons, Fowler McEntire, James H. McEntire, W.R. McEntire, Jr, and R.B. McEntire, Jr, formed a partnership, the “McEntire Brothers”, which began managing much of R. Billie McEntire's ranching operations. James H. McEntire initially became the primary manager of the ranching operations in Sterling County (about 10,000 acres) while the other three brothers were primarily engaged in Mitchell and Nolan Counties (also around 10,000 acres). This partnership lasted from <i>circa</i> 1915 to 1928, and was dissolved as a result of the brothers becoming owners and subsequently managing their own operations in Sterling County. In 1927, R. Billie McEntire sold the acreage in Sterling County to his sons. Eventually, Fowler and James H. McEntire purchased their brothers' interests, with each owning one-half of the acreage in Sterling County. R. Billie McEntire continued ranching in Mitchell and Nolan Counties until his death in 1937. </p> <ul><li>Fowler McEntire's grandson, Mackey McEntire, continues to use the original "U" Ranch brand on his ranch located on the Concho River.</li> <li>James H. McEntire brought the Campstool Ranch into its current form by 1925. The ranch was established on the Lacy Creek near the intersection with the Concho River on acreage that was initially acquired by his grandfather, W.R. McEntire, in 1884. After his death in 1937, his wife, Sudie Rawls, managed and operated all aspects of the ranch until 1955, when their daughter, Jamie Sue McEntire Cole, and son-in-law, Bill James Cole, first leased the agricultural production and then eventually became full owners of the ranch in 1981. Under Bill Cole's stewardship, ranching operations were enlarged to include about 35,000 acres across four counties: Crockett, Glasscock, Sterling, and Val Verde. In 1963, a feedlot with a maximum capacity of 32,000 sheep was constructed on the Campstool Ranch in Sterling City. Initially built as a commercial operation for the region, it was later primarily used for the benefit of their livestock and staging of livestock between operations. In 1969, Custom Skins, Inc. was established in San Angelo. The vertical integration into the sheepskin tanning industry was successful, and the company quickly became one of the leading suppliers nationally and globally. In the 1980s, ranching operations were expanded into Colorado, California, and Nevada, and eventually became one of the single largest individual producers of sheep and wool within the United States. To effectively support the multistate expansion and continued growth, Cole Trucking, a livestock transportation company, was established and a fleet of dedicated trucks ranged from Texas to California. Anticipating a peak in market prices in 1989, Bill Cole proactively sold all of the livestock and returned his focus to Texas, purchasing three additional ranches from 1989 to 1992 that totaled 40,000 acres. In 2008, the 9,000-acre Schleicher County ranch was sold. In understanding the need to preserve and proactively restore the natural resources once found on the open rangeland, a standard practice that Bill Cole implemented over 50 years ago in Sterling County, he was recognized by the Crockett County Soil and Water Conservation District for the improvements to the natural resources on his ranch in Crockett and Val Verde Counties – fostering native vegetation through good brush management, wildlife management, and erosion control.</li></ul> <p>George H. McEntire received title to 23,000 acres and operated the "U" Ranch under a partnership with his father, McEntire & Son. In 1962, George H. McEntire gave his two children, George H. McEntire, Jr. and Virginia McEntire, 16,233 acres each. George H. McEntire, Jr. continued his operations under the "U" Ranch name, while Virginia McEntire operated the acreage as the VJ Ranch. The ranch is currently owned by Ruth Caldwell, daughter of George H. McEntire, Jr. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Fence_Cutting_Wars">Fence Cutting Wars</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sterling_County,_Texas&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Fence Cutting Wars"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The county suffered droughts in 1883 and 1886–87. The former ignited fence-cutting wars in the county, and the latter of which bankrupted the Half Circle S ranch. <a href="/wiki/Fence_Cutting_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Fence Cutting War">Fence Cutting Wars</a> in Texas lasted for close to five years, 1883–1888. As open range areas gave way to farming homesteaders who fenced their land, cattlemen found it more difficult to feed their herds. In some cases, large land owners also fenced public land as their property. As water and grass became increasingly scarce during droughts, homesteaders and ranch-hands began cutting through fences. Newspapers condemned the fence cutters, and property owners employed their own armed security forces. <a href="/wiki/John_Ireland_(politician)" title="John Ireland (politician)">Texas Governor John Ireland</a> prodded a special assembly to order the fence cutters to cease. In response, the legislature made fence-cutting and pasture-burning crimes punishable with prison time, while at the same time regulating the building of fences. While the practice abated, sporadic incidents of related violence continued through 1888.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="County_established_and_growth">County established and growth</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sterling_County,_Texas&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: County established and growth"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The county was established and organized in 1891 from <a href="/wiki/Tom_Green_County,_Texas" title="Tom Green County, Texas">Tom Green County</a>. A competition developed between <a href="/wiki/Sterling_City,_Texas" title="Sterling City, Texas">Sterling City</a> and Cummins for the county seat. Sterling City won, and most of the Cummins population moved to Sterling City by the end of the year. Cummins became a ghost town.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> County voters in 1898 elected to make Sterling a <a href="/wiki/Dry_county" title="Dry county">dry county</a>, prohibiting the sale of alcohol within its boundaries.<sup id="cite_ref-Wet/Dry_Status_of_Texas_Counties_November_2010_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wet/Dry_Status_of_Texas_Counties_November_2010-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sheep ranching was introduced to the area in about 1890. Cotton was first planted in 1889. Sterling City opened its first cotton gin in 1895, with others established later. By 1900, 136 acres (0.55 km<sup>2</sup>) were planted in cotton, and by 1910, production of the fiber had expanded to 1,626 acres (6.58 km<sup>2</sup>). Eventually, it became more evident that county lands were most suitable for grazing. The cotton gins eventually failed; by 1920, only 650 acres (2.6 km<sup>2</sup>) in Sterling County were planted in cotton. Ranching continued to expand in the county. Sterling County experienced a brief boom when the number of farms and ranches in the area increased from 131 in 1920 to 176 by 1925. </p><p>In 1914, Boy Scout State Encampment was hosted by Colonel W.R. McEntire and George McEntire, Sr, on the "U" Ranch.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The county's economy declined during the <a href="/wiki/Great_Depression" title="Great Depression">Great Depression</a> of the 1930s. Oil discovered in Sterling County in 1947 helped to bail out the area's declining economy. By the beginning of 1991, 286,548,000 barrels (45,557,500 m<sup>3</sup>) of crude had been extracted from within the county.<sup id="cite_ref-Sterling_County_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sterling_County-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sterling_County,_Texas&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Census_Bureau" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Census Bureau">U.S. Census Bureau</a>, the county has a total area of 924 square miles (2,390 km<sup>2</sup>), of which 923 square miles (2,390 km<sup>2</sup>) is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km<sup>2</sup>) (0.01%) is covered by water.<sup id="cite_ref-GR1_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GR1-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Major_highways">Major highways</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sterling_County,_Texas&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Major highways"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:US_87.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/US_87.svg/20px-US_87.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/US_87.svg/30px-US_87.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/US_87.svg/40px-US_87.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/U.S._Route_87_in_Texas" title="U.S. Route 87 in Texas">U.S. Highway 87</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Texas_158.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Texas_158.svg/20px-Texas_158.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Texas_158.svg/30px-Texas_158.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Texas_158.svg/40px-Texas_158.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="384" data-file-height="384" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Texas_State_Highway_158" title="Texas State Highway 158">State Highway 158</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Texas_163.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Texas_163.svg/20px-Texas_163.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Texas_163.svg/30px-Texas_163.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Texas_163.svg/40px-Texas_163.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="384" data-file-height="384" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Texas_State_Highway_163" title="Texas State Highway 163">State Highway 163</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Adjacent_counties">Adjacent counties</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sterling_County,_Texas&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Adjacent counties"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mitchell_County,_Texas" title="Mitchell County, Texas">Mitchell County</a> (north)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coke_County,_Texas" title="Coke County, Texas">Coke County</a> (east)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Green_County,_Texas" title="Tom Green County, Texas">Tom Green County</a> (southeast and south)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reagan_County,_Texas" title="Reagan County, Texas">Reagan County</a> (southwest)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glasscock_County,_Texas" title="Glasscock County, Texas">Glasscock County</a> (west)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Howard_County,_Texas" title="Howard County, Texas">Howard County</a> (northwest)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demographics">Demographics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sterling_County,_Texas&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Demographics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224496135">.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop{border-spacing:1px;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;background-color:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);padding:0.3em;font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop 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0}}</style> <table class="us-census-pop us-census-pop-right"> <caption>Historical population</caption> <tbody><tr><th scope="col">Census</th><th scope="col"><abbr title="Population">Pop.</abbr></th><th scope="col"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1152813436">.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px;white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="sr-only">Note</span></th><th scope="col"><abbr title="Percent change">%±</abbr></th></tr> <tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1900_United_States_census" title="1900 United States census">1900</a></th><td>1,127</td><td></td><td>—</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1910_United_States_census" title="1910 United States census">1910</a></th><td>1,493</td><td></td><td>32.5%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1920_United_States_census" title="1920 United States census">1920</a></th><td>1,053</td><td></td><td>−29.5%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1930_United_States_census" title="1930 United States census">1930</a></th><td>1,431</td><td></td><td>35.9%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1940_United_States_census" title="1940 United States census">1940</a></th><td>1,404</td><td></td><td>−1.9%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1950_United_States_census" title="1950 United States census">1950</a></th><td>1,282</td><td></td><td>−8.7%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1960_United_States_census" title="1960 United States census">1960</a></th><td>1,177</td><td></td><td>−8.2%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1970_United_States_census" title="1970 United States census">1970</a></th><td>1,056</td><td></td><td>−10.3%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1980_United_States_census" title="1980 United States census">1980</a></th><td>1,206</td><td></td><td>14.2%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1990_United_States_census" title="1990 United States census">1990</a></th><td>1,438</td><td></td><td>19.2%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/2000_United_States_census" title="2000 United States census">2000</a></th><td>1,393</td><td></td><td>−3.1%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/2010_United_States_census" title="2010 United States census">2010</a></th><td>1,143</td><td></td><td>−17.9%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_census" title="2020 United States census">2020</a></th><td>1,372</td><td></td><td>20.0%</td></tr><tr><td colspan="4" class="us-census-pop-footnote" style="text-align: center">U.S. Decennial Census<sup id="cite_ref-DecennialCensus_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DecennialCensus-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br />1850–2010<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 2010<sup id="cite_ref-2010CensusP2_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2010CensusP2-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 2020<sup id="cite_ref-2020CensusP2_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2020CensusP2-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"> <caption><b>Sterling County, Texas – Racial and ethnic composition</b><br /><small><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style><span class="nobold"><i>Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race.</i></span></small> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Race / Ethnicity <small>(<i>NH = Non-Hispanic</i>)</small> </th> <th>Pop 2000<sup id="cite_ref-2000CensusP004_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2000CensusP004-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th>Pop 2010<sup id="cite_ref-2010CensusP2_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2010CensusP2-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th style="background:#FFB; color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-partial">Pop 2020<sup id="cite_ref-2020CensusP2_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2020CensusP2-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th>% 2000 </th> <th>% 2010 </th> <th style="background:#FFB; color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-partial">% 2020 </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Non-Hispanic_or_Latino_whites" class="mw-redirect" title="Non-Hispanic or Latino whites">White</a> alone (NH) </td> <td>955 </td> <td>733 </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">867 </td> <td>68.56% </td> <td>64.13% </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">63.19% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Non-Hispanic_or_Latino_African_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="Non-Hispanic or Latino African Americans">Black or African American</a> alone (NH) </td> <td>1 </td> <td>13 </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">3 </td> <td>0.07% </td> <td>1.14% </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">0.22% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States" title="Native Americans in the United States">Native American</a> or <a href="/wiki/Alaska_Native" class="mw-redirect" title="Alaska Native">Alaska Native</a> alone (NH) </td> <td>3 </td> <td>13 </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">4 </td> <td>0.22% </td> <td>1.14% </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">0.29% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Asian_Americans" title="Asian Americans">Asian</a> alone (NH) </td> <td>0 </td> <td>0 </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">1 </td> <td>0.00% </td> <td>0.00% </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">0.07% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Pacific_Islander_Americans" title="Pacific Islander Americans">Pacific Islander</a> alone (NH) </td> <td>1 </td> <td>0 </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">2 </td> <td>0.07% </td> <td>0.00% </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">0.15% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_United_States_census" title="Race and ethnicity in the United States census">Other Race</a> alone (NH) </td> <td>0 </td> <td>2 </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">2 </td> <td>0.00% </td> <td>0.17% </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">0.15% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Multiracial_Americans" title="Multiracial Americans">Mixed Race or Multiracial</a> (NH) </td> <td>1 </td> <td>17 </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">44 </td> <td>0.07% </td> <td>1.49% </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">3.21% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans" title="Hispanic and Latino Americans">Hispanic or Latino</a> (any race) </td> <td>432 </td> <td>365 </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">449 </td> <td>31.01% </td> <td>31.93% </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">32.73% </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Total</b> </td> <td><b>1,393</b> </td> <td><b>1,143</b> </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;"><b>1,372</b> </td> <td><b>100.00%</b> </td> <td><b>100.00%</b> </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;"><b>100.00%</b> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>As of the <a href="/wiki/Census" title="Census">census</a><sup id="cite_ref-GR8_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GR8-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> of 2000, 1,393 people, 513 households, and 385 families resided in the county. The <a href="/wiki/Population_density" title="Population density">population density</a> was 2 people per square mile (0.77 people/km<sup>2</sup>). The 633 housing units averaged 1 units per square mile (0.39 units/km<sup>2</sup>). The <a href="/wiki/Race_(United_States_Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Race (United States Census)">racial makeup</a> of the county was 62.1% White, 1.1% Black, 2.5% from other races, and 34.5% of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race. </p><p>Of the 513 households, 36.80% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 64.10% were <a href="/wiki/Marriage" title="Marriage">married couples</a> living together, 7.00% had a female householder with no husband present, and 24.80% were not families. About 23% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.30% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.67 and the average family size was 3.15. </p><p>In the county, the population was distributed as 28.70% under the age of 18, 6.10% from 18 to 24, 29.70% from 25 to 44, 20.80% from 45 to 64, and 14.60% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females, there were 96.50 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 95.90 males. </p><p>The median income for a household in the county was $35,129, and for a family was $37,813. Males had a median income of $28,173 versus $19,615 for females. The <a href="/wiki/Per_capita_income" title="Per capita income">per capita income</a> for the county was $16,972. About 13.90% of families and 16.80% of the population were below the <a href="/wiki/Poverty_line" class="mw-redirect" title="Poverty line">poverty line</a>, including 23.30% of those under age 18 and 15.90% of those age 65 or over. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Communities">Communities</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sterling_County,_Texas&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Communities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Broome,_Texas" title="Broome, Texas">Broome</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sterling_City,_Texas" title="Sterling City, Texas">Sterling City</a> (county seat)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Politics">Politics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sterling_County,_Texas&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Politics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible floatright" style="font-size: 95%;"> <caption>United States presidential election results for Sterling County, Texas<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" rowspan="2">Year </th> <th scope="col" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> </th> <th scope="col" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> </th> <th scope="col" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Third_party_(U.S._politics)" title="Third party (U.S. politics)">Third party(ies)</a> </th></tr> <tr> <th>No. </th> <th scope="col">%</th> <th scope="col">No. </th> <th scope="col">%</th> <th scope="col">No. </th> <th scope="col">% </th></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election_in_Texas" title="2024 United States presidential election in Texas">2024</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">583 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>92.69%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">43 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">6.84% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">3 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.48% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election_in_Texas" title="2020 United States presidential election in Texas">2020</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">584 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>91.39%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">51 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">7.98% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">4 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.63% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/2016_United_States_presidential_election_in_Texas" title="2016 United States presidential election in Texas">2016</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">549 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>86.73%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">70 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">11.06% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">14 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">2.21% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/2012_United_States_presidential_election_in_Texas" title="2012 United States presidential election in Texas">2012</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">459 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>92.91%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">31 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">6.28% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">4 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.81% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/2008_United_States_presidential_election_in_Texas" title="2008 United States presidential election in Texas">2008</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">520 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>84.01%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">97 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">15.67% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">2 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.32% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/2004_United_States_presidential_election_in_Texas" title="2004 United States presidential election in Texas">2004</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">544 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>88.46%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">71 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">11.54% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.00% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/2000_United_States_presidential_election_in_Texas" title="2000 United States presidential election in Texas">2000</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">520 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>78.91%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">132 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">20.03% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">7 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">1.06% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1996_United_States_presidential_election_in_Texas" title="1996 United States presidential election in Texas">1996</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">394 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>58.89%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">186 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">27.80% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">89 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">13.30% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1992_United_States_presidential_election_in_Texas" title="1992 United States presidential election in Texas">1992</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">322 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>50.79%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">127 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">20.03% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">185 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">29.18% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1988_United_States_presidential_election_in_Texas" title="1988 United States presidential election in Texas">1988</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">464 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>70.73%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">188 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">28.66% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">4 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.61% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1984_United_States_presidential_election_in_Texas" title="1984 United States presidential election in Texas">1984</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">577 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>81.27%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">129 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">18.17% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">4 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.56% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1980_United_States_presidential_election_in_Texas" title="1980 United States presidential election in Texas">1980</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">364 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>62.12%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">218 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">37.20% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">4 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.68% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1976_United_States_presidential_election_in_Texas" title="1976 United States presidential election in Texas">1976</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">202 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>53.02%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">174 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">45.67% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">5 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">1.31% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1972_United_States_presidential_election_in_Texas" title="1972 United States presidential election in Texas">1972</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">286 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>74.67%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">94 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">24.54% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">3 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.78% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1968_United_States_presidential_election_in_Texas" title="1968 United States presidential election in Texas">1968</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">170 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>45.33%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">151 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">40.27% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">54 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">14.40% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/1964_United_States_presidential_election_in_Texas" title="1964 United States presidential election in Texas">1964</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">140 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">36.46% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">243 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>63.28%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">1 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.26% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/1960_United_States_presidential_election_in_Texas" title="1960 United States presidential election in Texas">1960</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">182 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">48.53% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">193 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>51.47%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.00% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1956_United_States_presidential_election_in_Texas" title="1956 United States presidential election in Texas">1956</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">223 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>59.79%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">150 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">40.21% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.00% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1952_United_States_presidential_election_in_Texas" title="1952 United States presidential election in Texas">1952</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">277 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>63.68%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">158 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">36.32% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.00% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/1948_United_States_presidential_election_in_Texas" title="1948 United States presidential election in Texas">1948</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">17 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">6.34% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">244 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>91.04%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">7 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">2.61% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/1944_United_States_presidential_election_in_Texas" title="1944 United States presidential election in Texas">1944</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">18 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">5.03% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">330 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>92.18%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">10 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">2.79% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/1940_United_States_presidential_election_in_Texas" title="1940 United States presidential election in Texas">1940</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">16 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">3.63% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">425 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>96.37%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.00% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/1936_United_States_presidential_election_in_Texas" title="1936 United States presidential election in Texas">1936</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">14 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">3.52% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">384 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>96.48%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.00% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/1932_United_States_presidential_election_in_Texas" title="1932 United States presidential election in Texas">1932</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">13 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">3.54% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">354 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>96.46%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.00% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/1928_United_States_presidential_election_in_Texas" title="1928 United States presidential election in Texas">1928</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">122 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">42.21% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">167 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>57.79%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.00% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/1924_United_States_presidential_election_in_Texas" title="1924 United States presidential election in Texas">1924</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">25 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">9.29% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">243 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>90.33%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">1 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.37% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/1920_United_States_presidential_election_in_Texas" title="1920 United States presidential election in Texas">1920</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">17 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">9.14% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">152 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>81.72%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">17 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">9.14% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/1916_United_States_presidential_election_in_Texas" title="1916 United States presidential election in Texas">1916</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">6 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">2.83% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">205 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>96.70%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">1 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.47% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/1912_United_States_presidential_election_in_Texas" title="1912 United States presidential election in Texas">1912</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">4 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">2.22% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">165 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>91.67%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; 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title="Burleson County, Texas">Burleson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burnet_County,_Texas" title="Burnet County, Texas">Burnet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caldwell_County,_Texas" title="Caldwell County, Texas">Caldwell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calhoun_County,_Texas" title="Calhoun County, Texas">Calhoun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Callahan_County,_Texas" title="Callahan County, Texas">Callahan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cameron_County,_Texas" title="Cameron County, Texas">Cameron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Camp_County,_Texas" title="Camp County, Texas">Camp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carson_County,_Texas" title="Carson County, Texas">Carson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cass_County,_Texas" title="Cass County, Texas">Cass</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Castro_County,_Texas" title="Castro County, Texas">Castro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chambers_County,_Texas" title="Chambers County, Texas">Chambers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cherokee_County,_Texas" title="Cherokee County, Texas">Cherokee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Childress_County,_Texas" title="Childress County, Texas">Childress</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clay_County,_Texas" title="Clay County, Texas">Clay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cochran_County,_Texas" title="Cochran County, Texas">Cochran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coke_County,_Texas" title="Coke County, Texas">Coke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coleman_County,_Texas" title="Coleman County, Texas">Coleman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Collin_County,_Texas" title="Collin County, Texas">Collin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Collingsworth_County,_Texas" title="Collingsworth County, Texas">Collingsworth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colorado_County,_Texas" title="Colorado County, Texas">Colorado</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comal_County,_Texas" title="Comal County, Texas">Comal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comanche_County,_Texas" title="Comanche County, Texas">Comanche</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Concho_County,_Texas" title="Concho County, Texas">Concho</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cooke_County,_Texas" title="Cooke County, Texas">Cooke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coryell_County,_Texas" title="Coryell County, Texas">Coryell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cottle_County,_Texas" title="Cottle County, Texas">Cottle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crane_County,_Texas" title="Crane County, Texas">Crane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crockett_County,_Texas" title="Crockett County, Texas">Crockett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crosby_County,_Texas" title="Crosby County, Texas">Crosby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Culberson_County,_Texas" title="Culberson County, Texas">Culberson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dallam_County,_Texas" title="Dallam County, Texas">Dallam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dallas_County,_Texas" title="Dallas County, Texas">Dallas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dawson_County,_Texas" title="Dawson County, Texas">Dawson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deaf_Smith_County,_Texas" title="Deaf Smith County, Texas">Deaf Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Delta_County,_Texas" title="Delta County, Texas">Delta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Denton_County,_Texas" title="Denton County, Texas">Denton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/DeWitt_County,_Texas" title="DeWitt County, Texas">DeWitt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dickens_County,_Texas" title="Dickens County, Texas">Dickens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dimmit_County,_Texas" title="Dimmit County, Texas">Dimmit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donley_County,_Texas" title="Donley County, Texas">Donley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duval_County,_Texas" title="Duval County, Texas">Duval</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eastland_County,_Texas" title="Eastland County, Texas">Eastland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ector_County,_Texas" title="Ector County, Texas">Ector</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edwards_County,_Texas" title="Edwards County, Texas">Edwards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/El_Paso_County,_Texas" title="El Paso County, Texas">El Paso</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ellis_County,_Texas" title="Ellis County, Texas">Ellis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erath_County,_Texas" title="Erath County, Texas">Erath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Falls_County,_Texas" title="Falls County, Texas">Falls</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fannin_County,_Texas" title="Fannin County, Texas">Fannin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fayette_County,_Texas" title="Fayette County, Texas">Fayette</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fisher_County,_Texas" title="Fisher County, Texas">Fisher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Floyd_County,_Texas" title="Floyd County, Texas">Floyd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Foard_County,_Texas" title="Foard County, Texas">Foard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Bend_County,_Texas" title="Fort Bend County, Texas">Fort Bend</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franklin_County,_Texas" title="Franklin County, Texas">Franklin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Freestone_County,_Texas" title="Freestone County, Texas">Freestone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frio_County,_Texas" title="Frio County, Texas">Frio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaines_County,_Texas" title="Gaines County, Texas">Gaines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Galveston_County,_Texas" title="Galveston County, Texas">Galveston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Garza_County,_Texas" title="Garza County, Texas">Garza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gillespie_County,_Texas" title="Gillespie County, Texas">Gillespie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glasscock_County,_Texas" title="Glasscock County, Texas">Glasscock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goliad_County,_Texas" title="Goliad County, Texas">Goliad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gonzales_County,_Texas" title="Gonzales County, Texas">Gonzales</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gray_County,_Texas" title="Gray County, Texas">Gray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grayson_County,_Texas" title="Grayson County, Texas">Grayson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gregg_County,_Texas" title="Gregg County, Texas">Gregg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grimes_County,_Texas" title="Grimes County, Texas">Grimes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guadalupe_County,_Texas" title="Guadalupe County, Texas">Guadalupe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hale_County,_Texas" title="Hale County, Texas">Hale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hall_County,_Texas" title="Hall County, Texas">Hall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamilton_County,_Texas" title="Hamilton County, Texas">Hamilton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hansford_County,_Texas" title="Hansford County, Texas">Hansford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hardeman_County,_Texas" title="Hardeman County, Texas">Hardeman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hardin_County,_Texas" title="Hardin County, Texas">Hardin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harris_County,_Texas" title="Harris County, Texas">Harris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harrison_County,_Texas" title="Harrison County, Texas">Harrison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hartley_County,_Texas" title="Hartley County, Texas">Hartley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haskell_County,_Texas" title="Haskell County, Texas">Haskell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hays_County,_Texas" title="Hays County, Texas">Hays</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hemphill_County,_Texas" title="Hemphill County, Texas">Hemphill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henderson_County,_Texas" title="Henderson County, Texas">Henderson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hidalgo_County,_Texas" title="Hidalgo County, Texas">Hidalgo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hill_County,_Texas" title="Hill County, Texas">Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hockley_County,_Texas" title="Hockley County, Texas">Hockley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hood_County,_Texas" title="Hood County, Texas">Hood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hopkins_County,_Texas" title="Hopkins County, Texas">Hopkins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Houston_County,_Texas" title="Houston County, Texas">Houston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Howard_County,_Texas" title="Howard County, Texas">Howard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hudspeth_County,_Texas" title="Hudspeth County, Texas">Hudspeth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hunt_County,_Texas" title="Hunt County, Texas">Hunt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hutchinson_County,_Texas" title="Hutchinson County, Texas">Hutchinson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irion_County,_Texas" title="Irion County, Texas">Irion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_County,_Texas" title="Jack County, Texas">Jack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jackson_County,_Texas" title="Jackson County, Texas">Jackson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jasper_County,_Texas" title="Jasper County, Texas">Jasper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeff_Davis_County,_Texas" title="Jeff Davis County, Texas">Jeff Davis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jefferson_County,_Texas" title="Jefferson County, Texas">Jefferson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Hogg_County,_Texas" title="Jim Hogg County, Texas">Jim Hogg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Wells_County,_Texas" title="Jim Wells County, Texas">Jim Wells</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnson_County,_Texas" title="Johnson County, Texas">Johnson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jones_County,_Texas" title="Jones County, Texas">Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karnes_County,_Texas" title="Karnes County, Texas">Karnes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kaufman_County,_Texas" title="Kaufman County, Texas">Kaufman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kendall_County,_Texas" title="Kendall County, Texas">Kendall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenedy_County,_Texas" title="Kenedy County, Texas">Kenedy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kent_County,_Texas" title="Kent County, Texas">Kent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kerr_County,_Texas" title="Kerr County, Texas">Kerr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kimble_County,_Texas" title="Kimble County, Texas">Kimble</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/King_County,_Texas" title="King County, Texas">King</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kinney_County,_Texas" title="Kinney County, Texas">Kinney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kleberg_County,_Texas" title="Kleberg County, Texas">Kleberg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Knox_County,_Texas" title="Knox County, Texas">Knox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/La_Salle_County,_Texas" title="La Salle County, Texas">La Salle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lamar_County,_Texas" title="Lamar County, Texas">Lamar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lamb_County,_Texas" title="Lamb County, Texas">Lamb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lampasas_County,_Texas" title="Lampasas County, Texas">Lampasas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lavaca_County,_Texas" title="Lavaca County, Texas">Lavaca</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lee_County,_Texas" title="Lee County, Texas">Lee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leon_County,_Texas" title="Leon County, Texas">Leon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liberty_County,_Texas" title="Liberty County, Texas">Liberty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Limestone_County,_Texas" title="Limestone County, Texas">Limestone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lipscomb_County,_Texas" title="Lipscomb County, Texas">Lipscomb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Live_Oak_County,_Texas" title="Live Oak County, Texas">Live Oak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llano_County,_Texas" title="Llano County, Texas">Llano</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Loving_County,_Texas" title="Loving County, Texas">Loving</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lubbock_County,_Texas" title="Lubbock County, Texas">Lubbock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lynn_County,_Texas" title="Lynn County, Texas">Lynn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madison_County,_Texas" title="Madison County, Texas">Madison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marion_County,_Texas" title="Marion County, Texas">Marion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martin_County,_Texas" title="Martin County, Texas">Martin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mason_County,_Texas" title="Mason County, Texas">Mason</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matagorda_County,_Texas" title="Matagorda County, Texas">Matagorda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maverick_County,_Texas" title="Maverick County, Texas">Maverick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McCulloch_County,_Texas" title="McCulloch County, Texas">McCulloch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McLennan_County,_Texas" title="McLennan County, Texas">McLennan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McMullen_County,_Texas" title="McMullen County, Texas">McMullen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Medina_County,_Texas" title="Medina County, Texas">Medina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Menard_County,_Texas" title="Menard County, Texas">Menard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Midland_County,_Texas" title="Midland County, Texas">Midland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milam_County,_Texas" title="Milam County, Texas">Milam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mills_County,_Texas" title="Mills County, Texas">Mills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mitchell_County,_Texas" title="Mitchell County, Texas">Mitchell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montague_County,_Texas" title="Montague County, Texas">Montague</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montgomery_County,_Texas" title="Montgomery County, Texas">Montgomery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moore_County,_Texas" title="Moore County, Texas">Moore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morris_County,_Texas" title="Morris County, Texas">Morris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Motley_County,_Texas" title="Motley County, Texas">Motley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nacogdoches_County,_Texas" title="Nacogdoches County, Texas">Nacogdoches</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Navarro_County,_Texas" title="Navarro County, Texas">Navarro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newton_County,_Texas" title="Newton County, Texas">Newton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nolan_County,_Texas" title="Nolan County, Texas">Nolan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nueces_County,_Texas" title="Nueces County, Texas">Nueces</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ochiltree_County,_Texas" title="Ochiltree County, Texas">Ochiltree</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oldham_County,_Texas" title="Oldham County, Texas">Oldham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orange_County,_Texas" title="Orange County, Texas">Orange</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palo_Pinto_County,_Texas" title="Palo Pinto County, Texas">Palo Pinto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Panola_County,_Texas" title="Panola County, Texas">Panola</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parker_County,_Texas" title="Parker County, Texas">Parker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parmer_County,_Texas" title="Parmer County, Texas">Parmer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pecos_County,_Texas" title="Pecos County, Texas">Pecos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polk_County,_Texas" title="Polk County, Texas">Polk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Potter_County,_Texas" title="Potter County, Texas">Potter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidio_County,_Texas" title="Presidio County, Texas">Presidio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rains_County,_Texas" title="Rains County, Texas">Rains</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Randall_County,_Texas" title="Randall County, Texas">Randall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reagan_County,_Texas" title="Reagan County, Texas">Reagan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Real_County,_Texas" title="Real County, Texas">Real</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_River_County,_Texas" title="Red River County, Texas">Red River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reeves_County,_Texas" title="Reeves County, Texas">Reeves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Refugio_County,_Texas" title="Refugio County, Texas">Refugio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roberts_County,_Texas" title="Roberts County, Texas">Roberts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robertson_County,_Texas" title="Robertson County, Texas">Robertson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rockwall_County,_Texas" title="Rockwall County, Texas">Rockwall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Runnels_County,_Texas" title="Runnels County, Texas">Runnels</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rusk_County,_Texas" title="Rusk County, Texas">Rusk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sabine_County,_Texas" title="Sabine County, Texas">Sabine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Augustine_County,_Texas" title="San Augustine County, Texas">San Augustine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Jacinto_County,_Texas" title="San Jacinto County, Texas">San Jacinto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Patricio_County,_Texas" title="San Patricio County, Texas">San Patricio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Saba_County,_Texas" title="San Saba County, Texas">San Saba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Schleicher_County,_Texas" title="Schleicher County, Texas">Schleicher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scurry_County,_Texas" title="Scurry County, Texas">Scurry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shackelford_County,_Texas" title="Shackelford County, Texas">Shackelford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shelby_County,_Texas" title="Shelby County, Texas">Shelby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sherman_County,_Texas" title="Sherman County, Texas">Sherman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smith_County,_Texas" title="Smith County, Texas">Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Somervell_County,_Texas" title="Somervell County, Texas">Somervell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Starr_County,_Texas" title="Starr County, Texas">Starr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stephens_County,_Texas" title="Stephens County, Texas">Stephens</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Sterling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stonewall_County,_Texas" title="Stonewall County, Texas">Stonewall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sutton_County,_Texas" title="Sutton County, Texas">Sutton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swisher_County,_Texas" title="Swisher County, Texas">Swisher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tarrant_County,_Texas" title="Tarrant County, Texas">Tarrant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taylor_County,_Texas" title="Taylor County, Texas">Taylor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Terrell_County,_Texas" title="Terrell County, Texas">Terrell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Terry_County,_Texas" title="Terry County, Texas">Terry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Throckmorton_County,_Texas" title="Throckmorton County, Texas">Throckmorton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Titus_County,_Texas" title="Titus County, Texas">Titus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Green_County,_Texas" title="Tom Green County, Texas">Tom Green</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Travis_County,_Texas" title="Travis County, Texas">Travis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trinity_County,_Texas" title="Trinity County, Texas">Trinity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tyler_County,_Texas" title="Tyler County, Texas">Tyler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Upshur_County,_Texas" title="Upshur County, Texas">Upshur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Upton_County,_Texas" title="Upton County, Texas">Upton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uvalde_County,_Texas" title="Uvalde County, Texas">Uvalde</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Val_Verde_County,_Texas" title="Val Verde County, Texas">Val Verde</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Van_Zandt_County,_Texas" title="Van Zandt County, Texas">Van Zandt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victoria_County,_Texas" title="Victoria County, Texas">Victoria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walker_County,_Texas" title="Walker County, Texas">Walker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waller_County,_Texas" title="Waller County, Texas">Waller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ward_County,_Texas" title="Ward County, Texas">Ward</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washington_County,_Texas" title="Washington County, Texas">Washington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Webb_County,_Texas" title="Webb County, Texas">Webb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wharton_County,_Texas" title="Wharton County, Texas">Wharton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wheeler_County,_Texas" title="Wheeler County, Texas">Wheeler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wichita_County,_Texas" title="Wichita County, Texas">Wichita</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilbarger_County,_Texas" title="Wilbarger County, Texas">Wilbarger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Willacy_County,_Texas" title="Willacy County, Texas">Willacy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Williamson_County,_Texas" title="Williamson County, Texas">Williamson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilson_County,_Texas" title="Wilson County, Texas">Wilson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Winkler_County,_Texas" title="Winkler County, Texas">Winkler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wise_County,_Texas" title="Wise County, Texas">Wise</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wood_County,_Texas" title="Wood County, Texas">Wood</a></li> <li><a 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