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</div> </div> </nav> <h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading mw-first-heading"><span class="mw-page-title-main">Gillespie County, Texas</span></h1> <div id="p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown mw-portlet mw-portlet-lang" > <input type="checkbox" id="p-lang-btn-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox mw-interlanguage-selector" aria-label="Go to an article in another language. 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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/Gillespie_K%C5%ABn_(Texas)" title="Gillespie Kūn (Texas) – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Gillespie 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%93%D1%96%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BF%D1%96_(%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%B0)" title="Гілеспі (акруга) – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Гілеспі (акруга)" 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%93%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%B8_(%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%80%D1%8A%D0%B3,_%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%81)" title="Гилеспи (окръг, Тексас) – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Гилеспи (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/Gillespie_County,_Texas" title="Gillespie County, Texas – Bavarian" lang="bar" hreflang="bar" data-title="Gillespie 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/Gillespie_County" title="Gillespie County – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Gillespie 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/Gillespie_County" title="Gillespie County – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Gillespie 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/Gillespie_County,Texas" title="Gillespie County,Texas – Tumbuka" lang="tum" hreflang="tum" data-title="Gillespie 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/Gillespie_County,_Texas" title="Gillespie County, Texas – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Gillespie 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/Gillespie_County" title="Gillespie County – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Gillespie 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/Gillespie_maakond" title="Gillespie maakond – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Gillespie 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_Gillespie" title="Condado de Gillespie – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Condado de Gillespie" 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_Gillespie_(Teksaso)" title="Kantono Gillespie (Teksaso) – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Kantono Gillespie (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/Gillespie_konderria_(Texas)" title="Gillespie konderria (Texas) – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Gillespie 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_%DA%AF%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%BE%DB%8C%D8%8C_%D8%AA%DA%AF%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%B3" title="شهرستان گیلسپی، تگزاس – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="شهرستان گیلسپی، 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_Gillespie" title="Comté de Gillespie – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Comté de Gillespie" 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_Gillespie,_Texas" title="Contae Gillespie, Texas – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Contae Gillespie, 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/%DA%AF%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%BE%DB%8C_%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="گیلسپی ٚ شأرستان (تگزاس) – Gilaki" lang="glk" hreflang="glk" data-title="گیلسپی ٚ 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/%EA%B1%B8%EB%A0%88%EC%8A%A4%ED%94%BC%EA%B5%B0" title="걸레스피군 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="걸레스피군" 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/%D4%B3%D5%AB%D5%AC%D5%A5%D5%BD%D5%BA%D5%AB_%D5%B7%D6%80%D5%BB%D5%A1%D5%B6_(%D5%8F%D5%A5%D5%AD%D5%A1%D5%BD)" title="Գիլեսպի շրջան (Տեխաս) – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Գիլեսպի 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%97%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BF_%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="গিলেস্পি কাউন্টি, টেক্সাস – Bishnupriya" lang="bpy" hreflang="bpy" data-title="গিলেস্পি 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-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Gillespie,_Texas" title="County Gillespie, Texas – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="County Gillespie, Texas" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contea_di_Gillespie" title="Contea di Gillespie – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Contea di Gillespie" 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%92%E1%83%98%E1%83%9A%E1%83%94%E1%83%A1%E1%83%9E%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1_%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9A%E1%83%A5%E1%83%98" title="გილესპის ოლქი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="გილესპის ოლქი" 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/Gillespie_Comitatus" title="Gillespie Comitatus – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Gillespie 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/Gillespie_megye" title="Gillespie megye – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Gillespie 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/%DA%AF%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%BE%DB%8C_%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="گیلسپی شهرستان (تگزاس) – Mazanderani" lang="mzn" hreflang="mzn" data-title="گیلسپی 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/Gillespie_G%C3%B4ng_(Texas)" title="Gillespie Gông (Texas) – Mindong" lang="cdo" hreflang="cdo" data-title="Gillespie 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/Gillespie_County" title="Gillespie County – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Gillespie 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%B8%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%94%E3%83%BC%E9%83%A1_(%E3%83%86%E3%82%AD%E3%82%B5%E3%82%B9%E5%B7%9E)" title="ジルスピー郡 (テキサス州) – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ジルスピー郡 (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/Gillespie_County" title="Gillespie County – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Gillespie 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 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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Gillespie_County_Courthouse_Fredericksburg_TX.JPG/375px-Gillespie_County_Courthouse_Fredericksburg_TX.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Gillespie_County_Courthouse_Fredericksburg_TX.JPG/500px-Gillespie_County_Courthouse_Fredericksburg_TX.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3393" data-file-height="2275" /></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption">The Gillespie County Courthouse in <a href="/wiki/Fredericksburg,_Texas" title="Fredericksburg, Texas">Fredericksburg</a></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_Gillespie_County.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Location within the U.S. state of Texas"><img alt="Map of Texas highlighting Gillespie County" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Map_of_Texas_highlighting_Gillespie_County.svg/300px-Map_of_Texas_highlighting_Gillespie_County.svg.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="285" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Map_of_Texas_highlighting_Gillespie_County.svg/450px-Map_of_Texas_highlighting_Gillespie_County.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Map_of_Texas_highlighting_Gillespie_County.svg/600px-Map_of_Texas_highlighting_Gillespie_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, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Texas_in_United_States.svg/600px-Texas_in_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1181" data-file-height="731" /></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption">Texas's location within the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">U.S.</a></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">Coordinates: <span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Gillespie_County,_Texas&params=30.31_N_98.95_W_type:city(26725)"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">30°19′N</span> <span class="longitude">98°57′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">30.31°N 98.95°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">30.31; -98.95</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 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></span></span> </span>United States</span></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">State</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Flag_of_Texas.svg/23px-Flag_of_Texas.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Flag_of_Texas.svg/35px-Flag_of_Texas.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Flag_of_Texas.svg/45px-Flag_of_Texas.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">1848</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"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Addison_Gillespie" title="Robert Addison Gillespie">Robert Addison Gillespie</a></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/Fredericksburg,_Texas" title="Fredericksburg, Texas">Fredericksburg</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Largest city</th><td class="infobox-data">Fredericksburg</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">1,062 sq mi (2,750 km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Land</th><td class="infobox-data">1,058 sq mi (2,740 km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Water</th><td class="infobox-data">3.5 sq mi (9 km<sup>2</sup>)  0.3%</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">26,725</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Density</th><td class="infobox-data">25/sq mi (9.7/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_21st_congressional_district" title="Texas's 21st congressional district">21st</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.gillespiecounty.org">www<wbr />.gillespiecounty<wbr />.org</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Gillespie 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 26,725.<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> The <a href="/wiki/County_seat" title="County seat">county seat</a> is <a href="/wiki/Fredericksburg,_Texas" title="Fredericksburg, Texas">Fredericksburg</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> It is located in the heart of the rural <a href="/wiki/Texas_Hill_Country" title="Texas Hill Country">Texas Hill Country</a> in <a href="/wiki/Central_Texas" title="Central Texas">Central Texas</a>. Gillespie is named for <a href="/wiki/Robert_Addison_Gillespie" title="Robert Addison Gillespie">Robert Addison Gillespie</a>, a soldier in the <a href="/wiki/Mexican%E2%80%93American_War" title="Mexican–American War">Mexican–American War</a>. It is known as the birthplace of 36th president of the United States of America <a href="/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson" title="Lyndon B. Johnson">Lyndon B. Johnson</a>. </p><p>On December 15, 1847, a petition was submitted to create Gillespie County. In 1848, the legislature formed Gillespie County from <a href="/wiki/Bexar_County,_Texas" title="Bexar County, Texas">Bexar</a> and <a href="/wiki/Travis_County,_Texas" title="Travis County, Texas">Travis</a> Counties. While the signers were overwhelmingly <a href="/wiki/Germans" title="Germans">German</a> immigrants, names also on the petition were Castillo, Pena, Munos, and a handful of non-German Anglo names. </p><p>Gillespie County comprises the Fredericksburg, TX <a href="/wiki/Micropolitan_Statistical_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Micropolitan Statistical Area">Micropolitan Statistical Area</a>. </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=Gillespie_County,_Texas&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Early native inhabitants were the <a href="/wiki/Tonkawa" title="Tonkawa">Tonkawa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Comanche" title="Comanche">Comanche</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kiowa" title="Kiowa">Kiowa</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Lipan_Apache_people" title="Lipan Apache people">Lipan Apache</a> peoples.<sup id="cite_ref-Gillespie_County,_Texas_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gillespie_County,_Texas-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1842, the <a href="/wiki/Adelsverein" title="Adelsverein">Adelsverein</a> organized in Germany to promote emigration to Texas.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Fisher%E2%80%93Miller_Land_Grant" title="Fisher–Miller Land Grant">Fisher–Miller Land Grant</a> set aside three million acres (12,000 km<sup>2</sup>) to settle 600 families and single men of <a href="/wiki/Germans" title="Germans">German</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dutch_people" title="Dutch people">Dutch</a>, <a href="/wiki/Swiss_people" title="Swiss people">Swiss</a>, <a href="/wiki/Danish_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Danish people">Danish</a>, <a href="/wiki/Swedish_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Swedish people">Swedish</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Norwegian_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Norwegian people">Norwegian</a> ancestry in Texas.<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> <a href="/wiki/Henry_Francis_Fisher" title="Henry Francis Fisher">Henry Francis Fisher</a> sold his interest in the land grant to the Adelsverein in 1844.<sup id="cite_ref-Gillespie_County,_Texas_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gillespie_County,_Texas-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Prince_Carl_of_Solms-Braunfels" title="Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels">Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels</a> secured the title to 1,265 acres (5.12 km<sup>2</sup>) of the Veramendi grant the next year, including the Comal Springs and River, for the Adelsverein. Thousands of German immigrants were stranded at port of disembarkation, <a href="/wiki/Indianola,_Texas" title="Indianola, Texas">Indianola</a>, on <a href="/wiki/Matagorda_Bay" title="Matagorda Bay">Matagorda Bay</a>. With no food or shelters, living in holes dug into the ground, an estimated 50% die from disease or starvation. The living began to walk to their destinations hundreds of miles away. About 200 German colonists, who walked from Indianola, founded the town of <a href="/wiki/New_Braunfels,_Texas" title="New Braunfels, Texas">New Braunfels</a> at the crossing of the San Antonio-Nacodoches Road on the <a href="/wiki/Guadalupe_River_(Texas)" title="Guadalupe River (Texas)">Guadalupe River</a>. <a href="/wiki/John_O._Meusebach" title="John O. Meusebach">John O. Meusebach</a> arrived in <a href="/wiki/Galveston,_Texas" title="Galveston, Texas">Galveston</a>. The first wagon train of 120 settlers arrived from New Braunfels. Surveyor Hermann Wilke laid out the town. Meusebach named it <a href="/wiki/Fredericksburg,_Texas" title="Fredericksburg, Texas">Fredericksburg</a>, in honor of <a href="/wiki/Prince_Friedrich_Karl_of_Prussia_(1828%E2%80%9385)" class="mw-redirect" title="Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia (1828–85)">Prince Frederick of Prussia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Gillespie_County,_Texas_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gillespie_County,_Texas-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><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><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><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><sup id="cite_ref-Meusebach,_John_O_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Meusebach,_John_O-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><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><p>In 1847, the <a href="/wiki/Meusebach%E2%80%93Comanche_Treaty" title="Meusebach–Comanche Treaty">Meusebach–Comanche Treaty</a> was made. About 150 settlers petitioned the Texas Legislature to establish a new county, suggested names "Pierdenales" or "Germania". The <i>Vereins Kirche</i> became the first public building in Fredericksburg. It served as a nondenominational church, school, town hall, and fort. Locals referred to it as “the Coffee Mill Church” for its shape. <a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_Victor_Keidel" title="Wilhelm Victor Keidel">Wilhelm Victor Keidel</a> was the county's first doctor. Mormon leader <a href="/wiki/Lyman_Wight" title="Lyman Wight">Lyman Wight</a> founded the community of Zodiac.<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><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> </p><p>The Legislature formed Gillespie County from <a href="/wiki/Bexar_County,_Texas" title="Bexar County, Texas">Bexar</a> and <a href="/wiki/Travis_County,_Texas" title="Travis County, Texas">Travis</a> Counties in 1848. They named it after <a href="/wiki/Tennessee" title="Tennessee">Tennessee</a> transplant Capt. <a href="/wiki/Robert_Addison_Gillespie" title="Robert Addison Gillespie">Robert Addison Gillespie</a>,<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> a hero of the 1846 <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Monterrey" title="Battle of Monterrey">Battle of Monterrey</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Mexican%E2%80%93American_War" title="Mexican–American War">Mexican–American War</a>. Fredericksburg became the county seat. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Fort_Martin_Scott" title="Fort Martin Scott">Fort Martin Scott</a> was established in 1848 at Barons Creek, a Pedernales tributary.<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><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> An angry mob of soldiers burned down the store-courthouse in 1850, destroying all county records. The melee apparently started when County Clerk John M. Hunter, who also owned the store, refused to sell whiskey to a soldier. Words were exchanged, and Hunter stabbed the soldier; about 50 soldiers stormed and burned the store, destroying all contents. Soldiers prevented townspeople from saving the county records.<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><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> </p><p>John O. Meusebach was elected to the Texas Senate in 1851 to represent Bexar, Comal, and Medina Counties,<sup id="cite_ref-Meusebach,_John_O_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Meusebach,_John_O-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in 1854, received a special appointment as commissioner from <a href="/wiki/Elisha_M._Pease" title="Elisha M. Pease">Governor Elisha M. Pease</a> to issue land certificates to those immigrants of 1845 and 1846 who had been promised them by the Adelsverein. The Texas State Convention of Germans met in San Antonio and adopted a political, social, and religious platform, including: Equal pay for equal work, direct election of the President of the United States, abolition of capital punishment, "Slavery is an evil, the abolition of which is a requirement of democratic principles", free schools – including universities – supported by the state, without religious influence, and total separation of church and state.<sup id="cite_ref-Meusebach,_John_O_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Meusebach,_John_O-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<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><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> </p><p>In 1852, <a href="/wiki/Bremen" title="Bremen">Bremen</a> seaman <a href="/wiki/Charles_Henry_Nimitz" title="Charles Henry Nimitz">Charles Henry Nimitz</a>, grandfather of Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, built the Nimitz Hotel in Fredericksburg. In 1870, he added a steamboat-shaped façade.<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>Surveyor <a href="/wiki/Jacob_Kuechler" title="Jacob Kuechler">Jacob Kuechler</a> was commissioned as a captain by <a href="/wiki/Sam_Houston" title="Sam Houston">Sam Houston</a> to enroll state militia troops in Gillespie County. Texas <a href="/wiki/Ordinance_of_Secession" title="Ordinance of Secession">seceded</a> from the Union in 1861, and joined the <a href="/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America" title="Confederate States of America">Confederate States of America</a>, and Houston was dismissed from office in March by the Confederacy. Gillespie County voted 400 -17 against <a href="/wiki/Texas_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Texas in the American Civil War">secession</a> from the Union. Unionists from Kerr, Gillespie, and Kendall Counties participated in the formation of the <a href="/wiki/Union_League" title="Union League">Union League</a>, a secret organization to support <a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">President Abraham Lincoln's</a> policies. Kuechler signed up only German Unionists in his frontier company, and was dismissed by <a href="/wiki/Francis_Lubbock" title="Francis Lubbock">Governor Francis R. Lubbock</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1862, 54 Gillespie County men joined the Confederate Army. Eventually, 300 enlisted with the CSA to avoid conscription. The Union League formed companies to protect the frontier against Indians and their families against local Confederate forces. <a href="/wiki/Conscientious_objectors" class="mw-redirect" title="Conscientious objectors">Conscientious objectors</a> to the military draft were primarily among <a href="/wiki/Tejanos" title="Tejanos">Tejanos</a> and Germans. Confederate authorities imposed martial law on Central Texas. The <a href="/wiki/Nueces_massacre" title="Nueces massacre">Nueces massacre</a> occurred in <a href="/wiki/Kinney_County,_Texas" title="Kinney County, Texas">Kinney County</a>. Jacob Kuechler served as a guide for 61 conscientious objectors attempting to flee to Mexico. <a href="/wiki/Scottish_people" title="Scottish people">Scottish</a>-born Confederate irregular James Duff and his <a href="/wiki/Texas_Civil_War_Confederate_units" class="mw-redirect" title="Texas Civil War Confederate units">Duff's Partisan Rangers</a> pursued and overtook them at the <a href="/wiki/Nueces_River" title="Nueces River">Nueces River</a>; 34 were killed, some executed after being taken prisoner. Jacob Kuechler survived the battle. The cruelty shocked the people of Gillespie County. About 2,000 took to the hills to escape Duff's reign of terror. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Treue_der_Union_Monument" title="Treue der Union Monument"><i>Treue der Union</i> Monument</a> ("Loyalty to the Union") in Comfort was dedicated in 1866 to the Texans slain at the Nueces massacre. It is the only monument to the Union other than the National Cemeteries on Confederate territory. It is one of only six such sites allowed to fly the United States flag at half-mast in perpetuity.<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><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Spring Creek Cemetery near <a href="/wiki/Harper,_Texas" title="Harper, Texas">Harper</a> in Gillespie County has a singular grave with the names Sebird Henderson, Hiram Nelson, Gus Tegener, and Frank Scott. The inscription reads “Hanged and thrown in Spring Creek by Col. James Duff’s Confederate Regiment.” <sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Kiowa" title="Kiowa">Kiowa</a> raiders massacred residents of the McDonald farm in the Harper vicinity in 1864.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During 1865, Gillespie County suffered a war-time crime wave, as 17 individuals were convicted of murder.<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> </p><p>In 1870, <a href="/wiki/Herman_Lehmann" title="Herman Lehmann">Herman Lehmann</a> and his brother Willie were captured by Apaches, but Willie escaped within days.<sup id="cite_ref-Nine_Years_Among_the_Indians,_1870-1879:_The_Story_of_the_Captivity_and_Life_of_a_Texan_Among_the_Indians_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nine_Years_Among_the_Indians,_1870-1879:_The_Story_of_the_Captivity_and_Life_of_a_Texan_Among_the_Indians-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Herman Lehmann, escorted by soldiers, was finally returned to his family in 1878.<sup id="cite_ref-Nine_Years_Among_the_Indians,_1870-1879:_The_Story_of_the_Captivity_and_Life_of_a_Texan_Among_the_Indians_31-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nine_Years_Among_the_Indians,_1870-1879:_The_Story_of_the_Captivity_and_Life_of_a_Texan_Among_the_Indians-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1881, Gillespie County became the first county in Texas to hold a fair.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From 1874 to 1875, Andreas Lindig built the county's first lime kiln.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The original Gillespie County Courthouse was constructed in 1882; it later became the Pioneer Memorial Library.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Chester_W._Nimitz" title="Chester W. Nimitz">Chester W. Nimitz</a>, future <a href="/wiki/Commander_in_Chief" class="mw-redirect" title="Commander in Chief">Commander in Chief</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_States_Pacific_Fleet" title="United States Pacific Fleet">United States Pacific Fleet</a>, was born in 1885 in Fredericksburg. His father, Chester B. Nimitz, died before his birth, leaving his seaman grandfather as role model.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> John O. Meusebach died at his farm at <a href="/wiki/Loyal_Valley,_Texas" title="Loyal Valley, Texas">Loyal Valley</a> in <a href="/wiki/Mason_County,_Texas" title="Mason County, Texas">Mason County</a> on May 27, 1897, and was buried in the Marschall Meusebach Cemetery at <a href="/wiki/Cherry_Spring,_Texas" title="Cherry Spring, Texas">Cherry Spring</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Meusebach,_John_O_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Meusebach,_John_O-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1908, future President of the United States <a href="/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson" title="Lyndon B. Johnson">Lyndon B. Johnson</a> was born in a small farmhouse on the <a href="/wiki/Pedernales_River" title="Pedernales River">Pedernales River</a>. Johnson became the <a href="/wiki/Vice_President_of_the_United_States" title="Vice President of the United States">Vice President of the United States</a> in 1961 and subsequently <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">President of the United States</a>. His ranch at Stonewall was known as the Texas White House. Tourism became an important industry.<sup id="cite_ref-President_Lyndon_B._Johnson's_Biography_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-President_Lyndon_B._Johnson's_Biography-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Ranch_Road_1" title="Ranch Road 1">Ranch Road 1</a> was designated in 1963. On January 22, 1973, President Johnson died at his <a href="/wiki/Stonewall,_Texas" title="Stonewall, Texas">Stonewall</a> ranch. He, and later <a href="/wiki/Lady_Bird_Johnson" title="Lady Bird Johnson">Lady Bird Johnson</a>, were laid to rest at the family cemetery on the ranch.<sup id="cite_ref-President_Lyndon_B._Johnson's_Biography_37-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-President_Lyndon_B._Johnson's_Biography-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Gillespie County Historical Society was formed in 1934,<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/Pedernales_Electric_Cooperative" title="Pedernales Electric Cooperative">Pedernales Electric Cooperative</a> was formed to provide rural electrification four years later.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1948, the county began its annual Easter Fire event to commemorate the Meusebach treaty signing.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Admiral Nimitz died February 20, 1966. The next February, the Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Memorial Naval Museum opened in the old Nimitz Hotel on Main Street in Fredericksburg.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Japanese_Garden_of_Peace" title="Japanese Garden of Peace">Japanese Garden of Peace</a>, a gift from the people of Japan, was dedicated on the 130th anniversary of the founding of Fredericksburg at the Nimitz Museum on May 8, 1976.<sup id="cite_ref-Nimitz_Museum_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nimitz_Museum-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1981, the state legislature placed the Nimitz Museum under <a href="/wiki/Texas_Parks_and_Wildlife_Department" title="Texas Parks and Wildlife Department">Texas Parks and Wildlife Department</a> as <a href="/wiki/Admiral_Nimitz_State_Historic_Site" class="mw-redirect" title="Admiral Nimitz State Historic Site">the National Museum of the Pacific War</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Nimitz_Museum_42-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nimitz_Museum-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/State_of_Texas" class="mw-redirect" title="State of Texas">State of Texas</a> opened <a href="/wiki/Enchanted_Rock" title="Enchanted Rock">Enchanted Rock State Natural Area</a> after adding facilities in 1984. That same year, it is also added to the <a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places" title="National Register of Historic Places">National Register of Historic Places</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Enchanted_Rock_State_Natural_Area_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Enchanted_Rock_State_Natural_Area-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Texas White House officially opened to the public August 27, 2008.<sup id="cite_ref-President_Lyndon_B._Johnson's_Biography_37-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-President_Lyndon_B._Johnson's_Biography-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2009, the <a href="/wiki/George_H.W._Bush" class="mw-redirect" title="George H.W. Bush">George H. W. Bush Gallery</a> opened at the Nimitz museum.<sup id="cite_ref-Nimitz_Museum_42-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nimitz_Museum-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<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=Gillespie_County,_Texas&action=edit&section=2" 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 1,062 square miles (2,750 km<sup>2</sup>), of which 1,058 square miles (2,740 km<sup>2</sup>) is land and 3.5 square miles (9.1 km<sup>2</sup>) (0.3%) is water.<sup id="cite_ref-GR1_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GR1-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <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=Gillespie_County,_Texas&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Adjacent counties"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mason_County,_Texas" title="Mason County, Texas">Mason County</a> – northwest</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llano_County,_Texas" title="Llano County, Texas">Llano County</a> – northeast</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blanco_County,_Texas" title="Blanco County, Texas">Blanco County</a> – east</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kendall_County,_Texas" title="Kendall County, Texas">Kendall County</a> – south</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kerr_County,_Texas" title="Kerr County, Texas">Kerr County</a> – southwest</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kimble_County,_Texas" title="Kimble County, Texas">Kimble County</a> – west</li></ul> <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=Gillespie_County,_Texas&action=edit&section=4" 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:I-10.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/I-10.svg/20px-I-10.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/I-10.svg/30px-I-10.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/I-10.svg/40px-I-10.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="601" data-file-height="601" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Interstate_10_in_Texas" title="Interstate 10 in Texas">Interstate 10</a></li> <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:US_290.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/US_290.svg/25px-US_290.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/US_290.svg/38px-US_290.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/US_290.svg/50px-US_290.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="600" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/U.S._Route_290" title="U.S. Route 290">U.S. Highway 290</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Texas_16.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Texas_16.svg/20px-Texas_16.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Texas_16.svg/30px-Texas_16.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Texas_16.svg/40px-Texas_16.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="384" data-file-height="384" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Texas_State_Highway_16" title="Texas State Highway 16">State Highway 16</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Texas_RM_783.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Texas_RM_783.svg/20px-Texas_RM_783.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Texas_RM_783.svg/30px-Texas_RM_783.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Texas_RM_783.svg/40px-Texas_RM_783.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="384" data-file-height="384" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Ranch_to_Market_Road_783" class="mw-redirect" title="Ranch to Market Road 783">Ranch to Market Road 783</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="National_protected_area">National protected area</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gillespie_County,_Texas&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: National protected area"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson_National_Historical_Park" title="Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park">Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park</a> (part)</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=Gillespie_County,_Texas&action=edit&section=6" 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 caption{background-color:lavender;color:black;padding-right:0.2em;padding-left:0.2em;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-bottom:none}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop th[scope=col]{border-bottom:1px solid black}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop td:nth-child(2){text-align:right;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop td.us-census-pop-estimate{padding-left:0}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop td:nth-child(3){padding-left:0}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop td:nth-child(4){padding-left:0.5em;text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-footnote{border-top:1px solid black;font-size:85%;text-align:center}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-right{float:right;clear:right;margin:0 0 1em 1em}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-left{float:left;clear:left;margin:0 1em 1em 0}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-center{float:none;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-none{float:none;margin:0 1em 1em 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/1850_United_States_census" title="1850 United States census">1850</a></th><td>1,240</td><td></td><td>—</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1860_United_States_census" title="1860 United States census">1860</a></th><td>2,736</td><td></td><td>120.6%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1870_United_States_census" title="1870 United States census">1870</a></th><td>3,566</td><td></td><td>30.3%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1880_United_States_census" title="1880 United States census">1880</a></th><td>5,228</td><td></td><td>46.6%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1890_United_States_census" title="1890 United States census">1890</a></th><td>7,056</td><td></td><td>35.0%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1900_United_States_census" title="1900 United States census">1900</a></th><td>8,229</td><td></td><td>16.6%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1910_United_States_census" title="1910 United States census">1910</a></th><td>9,447</td><td></td><td>14.8%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1920_United_States_census" title="1920 United States census">1920</a></th><td>10,015</td><td></td><td>6.0%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1930_United_States_census" title="1930 United States census">1930</a></th><td>11,020</td><td></td><td>10.0%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1940_United_States_census" title="1940 United States census">1940</a></th><td>10,670</td><td></td><td>−3.2%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1950_United_States_census" title="1950 United States census">1950</a></th><td>10,520</td><td></td><td>−1.4%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1960_United_States_census" title="1960 United States census">1960</a></th><td>10,048</td><td></td><td>−4.5%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1970_United_States_census" title="1970 United States census">1970</a></th><td>10,553</td><td></td><td>5.0%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1980_United_States_census" title="1980 United States census">1980</a></th><td>13,532</td><td></td><td>28.2%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1990_United_States_census" title="1990 United States census">1990</a></th><td>17,204</td><td></td><td>27.1%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/2000_United_States_census" title="2000 United States census">2000</a></th><td>20,814</td><td></td><td>21.0%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/2010_United_States_census" title="2010 United States census">2010</a></th><td>24,837</td><td></td><td>19.3%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_census" title="2020 United States census">2020</a></th><td>26,725</td><td></td><td>7.6%</td></tr><tr><td colspan="4" class="us-census-pop-footnote" style="text-align: center">U.S. Decennial Census<sup id="cite_ref-DecennialCensus_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DecennialCensus-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br />1850–2010<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 2010<sup id="cite_ref-2010CensusP2_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2010CensusP2-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 2020<sup id="cite_ref-2020CensusP2_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2020CensusP2-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"> <caption><b>Gillespie 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_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2000CensusP004-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th>Pop 2010<sup id="cite_ref-2010CensusP2_47-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2010CensusP2-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<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_48-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2020CensusP2-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<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>17,232 </td> <td>19,472 </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">19,884 </td> <td>82.79% </td> <td>78.40% </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">74.40% </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>30 </td> <td>47 </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">84 </td> <td>0.14% </td> <td>0.19% </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">0.31% </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>58 </td> <td>68 </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">69 </td> <td>0.28% </td> <td>0.27% </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">0.26% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Asian_Americans" title="Asian Americans">Asian</a> alone (NH) </td> <td>35 </td> <td>88 </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">127 </td> <td>0.17% </td> <td>0.35% </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">0.48% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Pacific_Islander_Americans" title="Pacific Islander Americans">Pacific Islander</a> alone (NH) </td> <td>4 </td> <td>11 </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">1 </td> <td>0.02% </td> <td>0.04% </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">0.00% </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>9 </td> <td>28 </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">100 </td> <td>0.04% </td> <td>0.11% </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">0.37% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Multiracial_Americans" title="Multiracial Americans">Mixed Race or Multiracial</a> (NH) </td> <td>137 </td> <td>154 </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">694 </td> <td>0.66% </td> <td>0.62% </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">2.60% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans" title="Hispanic and Latino Americans">Hispanic or Latino</a> (any race) </td> <td>3,309 </td> <td>4,969 </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">5,766 </td> <td>15.90% </td> <td>20.01% </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">21.58% </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Total</b> </td> <td><b>20,814</b> </td> <td><b>24,837</b> </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;"><b>26,725</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_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GR8-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> of 2000, 20,814 people resided in the county, organized into 8,521 households, and 6,083 families. The <a href="/wiki/Population_density" title="Population density">population density</a> was 20 people per square mile (7.7 people/km<sup>2</sup>). The 9,902 housing units averaged nine per square mile (3.5/km<sup>2</sup>). The <a href="/wiki/Race_(U.S._census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Race (U.S. census)">racial makeup</a> of the county was 92.82% White, 0.33% Native American, 0.21% Black or African American, 0.18% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 5.27% from other races and 1.18% from two or more races. About 15.90% of the population was <a href="/wiki/Race_(U.S._census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Race (U.S. census)">Hispanic or Latino</a> of any race. In terms of ancestry, 40.8% were of <a href="/wiki/Germans" title="Germans">German</a>, 10.3% were of <a href="/wiki/English_people" title="English people">English</a>, 10.0% were of <a href="/wiki/Irish_people" title="Irish people">Irish</a>, 6.0% were of <a href="/wiki/Americans" title="Americans">American</a>, 3.1% were of <a href="/wiki/Scotch-Irish_Americans" title="Scotch-Irish Americans">Scotch-Irish</a>, 2.5% were of <a href="/wiki/Scottish_people" title="Scottish people">Scottish</a>,2.5% were of <a href="/wiki/French_people" title="French people">French</a>. In 1990, about 3,000 speakers of <a href="/wiki/Texas_German" class="mw-redirect" title="Texas German">Texas German</a> were in Gillespie and Kendall Counties, but this is believed to have declined since.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Of the 8,521 households, 25.90% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 62.10% were <a href="/wiki/Marriage" title="Marriage">married couples</a> living together, 7.00% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.60% were not families. About 25.80% of all households were made up of individuals, and 14.20% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.38 and the average family size was 2.84. </p><p>In the county, the population was distributed as 21.60% under the age of 18, 5.50% from 18 to 24, 21.20% from 25 to 44, 26.20% from 45 to 64, and 25.50% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 46 years. For every 100 females, there were 89.70 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 88.10 males. </p><p>The median income for a household in the county was $38,109, and for a family was $45,315. Males had a median income of $26,675 versus $20,918 for females. The <a href="/wiki/Per_capita_income" title="Per capita income">per capita income</a> for the county was $20,423, and 10.20% of the population and 7.10% of families were below the <a href="/wiki/Poverty_line" class="mw-redirect" title="Poverty line">poverty line</a>. Of the total population, 13.40% of those under the age of 18 and 9.90% of those 65 and older were living below the poverty line. </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <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=Gillespie_County,_Texas&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Politics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Gillespie County is part of the 21st District in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">United States House of Representatives</a>, represented by Republican <a href="/wiki/Chip_Roy" title="Chip Roy">Chip Roy</a>, the 25th district of the <a href="/wiki/Texas_State_Senate" class="mw-redirect" title="Texas State Senate">Texas State Senate</a>, represented by Republican <a href="/wiki/Donna_Campbell" title="Donna Campbell">Donna Campbell</a>, and the 19th District of the Texas House of Representatives and is represented by Republican <a href="/wiki/Ellen_Troxclair" title="Ellen Troxclair">Ellen Troxclair</a>. </p><p>Historically, the county was a massive outlier in Texas. While Texas was overwhelmingly Democratic up until recent decades, Gillespie County has long been a Republican stronghold. This is largely due to the heavily <a href="/wiki/German_American" class="mw-redirect" title="German American">German American</a> heritage of the county and that Gillespie was the fountainhead of Texas’ small <a href="/wiki/Southern_Unionist" title="Southern Unionist">Unionist</a> movement during <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">the Civil War</a>. Most <a href="/wiki/German_Texan" class="mw-redirect" title="German Texan">Texas Germans</a> acquiesced to secession, but Fredericksburg was still self-sufficient and sold surplus food to the army.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Gillespie County has been won by Republicans in every election since <a href="/wiki/1896_United_States_presidential_election" title="1896 United States presidential election">1896</a> with only four exceptions. Theodore Roosevelt's <a href="/wiki/Progressive_Party_(United_States,_1912)" class="mw-redirect" title="Progressive Party (United States, 1912)">Progressive Party</a> won the county in 1912 (but carried no other counties in the state). In 1924, it was one of only two Texas counties won by <a href="/wiki/Progressive_Party_(United_States,_1924)" class="mw-redirect" title="Progressive Party (United States, 1924)">Progressive</a> candidate <a href="/wiki/Robert_M._La_Follette" title="Robert M. La Follette">Robert M. La Follette</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Gillespie County has backed a Democratic nominee only twice since the 19th century: in 1932 and 1964,<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> both of which were landslide victories for the party, and the latter being for county native <a href="/wiki/Lyndon_Johnson" class="mw-redirect" title="Lyndon Johnson">Lyndon Johnson</a>. No Democrat since <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Carter" title="Jimmy Carter">Jimmy Carter</a> in 1976<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> has received so much as 22 percent of the county's vote.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt" title="Franklin D. Roosevelt">Franklin D. Roosevelt</a> won the county by almost 60 percentage points in 1932, despite the county's massive Republican lean. At his fourth and final election in 1944, he received less than one-tenth of its vote – a decline of more than 70 percentage points from his first election in the county. </p> <table class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible floatright" style="font-size: 95%;"> <caption>United States presidential election results for Gillespie County, Texas<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<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/2020_United_States_presidential_election_in_Texas" title="2020 United States presidential election in Texas">2020</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">12,514 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>78.95%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">3,176 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">20.04% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">160 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">1.01% </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">10,446 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>79.05%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">2,288 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">17.31% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">480 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">3.63% </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">10,306 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>82.12%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">2,055 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">16.37% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">189 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">1.51% </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">9,563 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>77.51%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">2,576 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">20.88% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">199 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">1.61% </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">9,297 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>80.47%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">2,104 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">18.21% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">152 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">1.32% </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">8,096 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>81.61%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">1,511 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">15.23% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">313 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">3.16% </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">5,867 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>71.98%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">1,655 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">20.30% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">629 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">7.72% </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">4,712 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>56.28%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">1,600 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">19.11% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">2,060 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">24.61% </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">5,662 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>77.42%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">1,588 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">21.71% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">63 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.86% </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">5,496 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>82.63%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">1,137 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">17.10% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">18 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.27% </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">4,736 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>78.70%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">1,170 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">19.44% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">112 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">1.86% </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">3,541 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>72.49%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">1,260 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">25.79% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">84 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">1.72% </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">3,490 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>85.67%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">526 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">12.91% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">58 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">1.42% </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">2,945 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>71.74%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">725 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">17.66% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">435 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">10.60% </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">1,695 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">42.80% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">2,264 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>57.17%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">1 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.03% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><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">2,687 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>76.62%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">816 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">23.27% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">4 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.11% </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">3,070 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>92.61%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">240 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">7.24% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">5 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.15% </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">3,687 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>92.29%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">300 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">7.51% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">8 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.20% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><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">2,741 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>80.31%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">593 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">17.37% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">79 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">2.31% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><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">2,950 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>82.56%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">333 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">9.32% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">290 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">8.12% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><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">3,213 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>86.74%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">487 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">13.15% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">4 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.11% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><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">1,421 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>56.52%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">1,016 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">40.41% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">77 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">3.06% </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">662 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">19.96% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">2,642 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>79.65%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">13 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.39% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><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">1,447 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>55.12%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">1,174 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">44.72% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">4 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.15% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#C97979"><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">768 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">28.42% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">352 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">13.03% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">1,582 </td> <td style="text-align:center; 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</td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">14 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.74% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#C97979"><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">219 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">13.70% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">307 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">19.20% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">1,073 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;"><b>67.10%</b> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <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=Gillespie_County,_Texas&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: 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href="/wiki/Stonewall,_Texas" title="Stonewall, Texas">Stonewall</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Unincorporated_communities">Unincorporated communities</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gillespie_County,_Texas&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Unincorporated communities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 18em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Blumenthal,_Texas" title="Blumenthal, Texas">Blumenthal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cave_Creek_School_(Gillespie_County,_Texas)" title="Cave Creek School (Gillespie County, Texas)">Cave Creek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cherry_Spring,_Texas" title="Cherry Spring, Texas">Cherry Spring</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crabapple,_Texas" title="Crabapple, Texas">Crabapple</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doss,_Gillespie_County,_Texas" title="Doss, Gillespie County, Texas">Doss</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grapetown,_Texas" title="Grapetown, Texas">Grapetown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luckenbach,_Texas" title="Luckenbach, Texas">Luckenbach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rheingold_School,_Gillespie_County,_Texas" class="mw-redirect" title="Rheingold School, Gillespie County, Texas">Rheingold</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tivydale,_Texas" title="Tivydale, Texas">Tivydale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Willow_City,_Texas" title="Willow City, Texas">Willow City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wrede,_Texas" class="mw-redirect" 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href="/wiki/Central_Texas_College" title="Central Texas College">Central Texas College</a>'s attendance area.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_people">Notable people</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gillespie_County,_Texas&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Notable people"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>President <a href="/wiki/Lyndon_Johnson" class="mw-redirect" title="Lyndon Johnson">Lyndon B. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">June 29,</span> 2022</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=2020+CENSUS+-+SCHOOL+DISTRICT+REFERENCE+MAP%3A+Gillespie+County%2C+TX&rft.pub=U.S.+Census+Bureau&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww2.census.gov%2Fgeo%2Fmaps%2FDC2020%2FPL20%2Fst48_tx%2Fschooldistrict_maps%2Fc48171_gillespie%2FDC20SD_C48171.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGillespie+County%2C+Texas" class="Z3988"></span> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st48_tx/schooldistrict_maps/c48171_gillespie/DC20SD_C48171_SD2MS.txt">List</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-59"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-59">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/ED/htm/ED.130.htm">"Sec. 130.171. CENTRAL TEXAS COLLEGE DISTRICT SERVICE AREA"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Sec.+130.171.+CENTRAL+TEXAS+COLLEGE+DISTRICT+SERVICE+AREA.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fstatutes.capitol.texas.gov%2FDocs%2FED%2Fhtm%2FED.130.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGillespie+County%2C+Texas" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-60"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-60">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110726070156/http://www.glo.texas.gov/cf/land-grant-search/landgrants.cfm?intID=492314">"Fisher Miller Colony Transfers"</a>. Texas General Land Office. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">May 26,</span> 2011</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Fisher+Miller+Colony+Transfers&rft.pub=Texas+General+Land+Office&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.glo.texas.gov%2Fcf%2Fland-grant-search%2Flandgrants.cfm%3FintID%3D492314&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGillespie+County%2C+Texas" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gillespie_County,_Texas&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBiesele1930" class="citation book cs1">Biesele, Rudolph Leopold (1930). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006791563"><i>The history of the German settlements in Texas, 1831-1861</i></a>. Press of Von Boeckmann-Jones Co. – via <a href="/wiki/HathiTrust" title="HathiTrust">HathiTrust</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+history+of+the+German+settlements+in+Texas%2C+1831-1861&rft.pub=Press+of+Von+Boeckmann-Jones+Co.&rft.date=1930&rft.aulast=Biesele&rft.aufirst=Rudolph+Leopold&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fcatalog.hathitrust.org%2FRecord%2F006791563&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGillespie+County%2C+Texas" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBiesele1930" class="citation journal cs1">Biesele, R. L. (April 1930). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101090/m1/273/">"The Texas State Convention of Germans in 1854"</a>. <i>Southwestern Historical Quarterly</i>. <b>33</b> (4). Denton, TX: Texas State Historical Association: 247–261.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Southwestern+Historical+Quarterly&rft.atitle=The+Texas+State+Convention+of+Germans+in+1854&rft.volume=33&rft.issue=4&rft.pages=247-261&rft.date=1930-04&rft.aulast=Biesele&rft.aufirst=R.+L.&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Ftexashistory.unt.edu%2Fark%3A%2F67531%2Fmetapth101090%2Fm1%2F273%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGillespie+County%2C+Texas" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHoffmann1999" class="citation journal cs1">Hoffmann, David R. (April 1999). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101219/m1/557/">"A German-American Pioneer Remembers: August Hoffmann's Memoir"</a>. <i>Southwestern Historical Quarterly</i>. <b>102</b> (4). Denton, TX: Texas State Historical Association: 486–509.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Southwestern+Historical+Quarterly&rft.atitle=A+German-American+Pioneer+Remembers%3A+August+Hoffmann%27s+Memoir&rft.volume=102&rft.issue=4&rft.pages=486-509&rft.date=1999-04&rft.aulast=Hoffmann&rft.aufirst=David+R.&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Ftexashistory.unt.edu%2Fark%3A%2F67531%2Fmetapth101219%2Fm1%2F557%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGillespie+County%2C+Texas" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMcGowen2000" class="citation journal cs1">McGowen, Stanley S (July 2000). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101221/m1/93/">"Battle or Massacre?: The Incident on the Nueces, August 10, 1862"</a>. <i>Southwestern Historical Quarterly</i>. <b>104</b> (1). Denton, TX: Texas State Historical Association: 64–86.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Southwestern+Historical+Quarterly&rft.atitle=Battle+or+Massacre%3F%3A+The+Incident+on+the+Nueces%2C+August+10%2C+1862&rft.volume=104&rft.issue=1&rft.pages=64-86&rft.date=2000-07&rft.aulast=McGowen&rft.aufirst=Stanley+S&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Ftexashistory.unt.edu%2Fark%3A%2F67531%2Fmetapth101221%2Fm1%2F93%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGillespie+County%2C+Texas" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gillespie_County,_Texas&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?va=all&co=hh&sp=1&q=gillespie+county+texas&fi=all&sg=false&op=AND">Library of Congress Historic American Buildings Survey (Gillespie Co)</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hcg04">Gillespie County at Handbook of Texas Online</a></li></ul> <div class="navbox-styles"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul 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communities of <a class="mw-selflink selflink"><span class="region">Gillespie County, Texas</span></a>, <span class="country-name">United States</span></div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="3" style="color:inherit;"><div><a href="/wiki/County_seat" title="County seat"><span>County seat</span></a>: <b><a href="/wiki/Fredericksburg,_Texas" title="Fredericksburg, Texas"><span>Fredericksburg</span></a></b></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/City" title="City">City</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fredericksburg,_Texas" title="Fredericksburg, Texas">Fredericksburg</a></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="4" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Gillespie County map"><img alt="" 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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 class="mw-selflink selflink">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 href="/wiki/Sterling_County,_Texas" title="Sterling County, Texas">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 href="/wiki/Yoakum_County,_Texas" title="Yoakum County, Texas">Yoakum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Young_County,_Texas" title="Young County, Texas">Young</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zapata_County,_Texas" title="Zapata County, Texas">Zapata</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zavala_County,_Texas" title="Zavala County, Texas">Zavala</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="State_of_Texas" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link 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Texas">History</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Languages_of_Texas" title="Languages of Texas">Languages</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Law_of_Texas" title="Law of Texas">Law</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texas_literature" title="Texas literature">Literature</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Mass_media_in_Texas" title="Category:Mass media in Texas">Mass media</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_Texas" title="List of newspapers in Texas">Newspapers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_radio_stations_in_Texas" title="List of radio stations in Texas">Radio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_television_stations_in_Texas" title="List of television stations in Texas">TV</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_National_Historic_Landmarks_in_Texas" title="List of National Historic Landmarks in Texas">National Historic Landmarks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Texas" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Texas">National Register of Historic Places Sites</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Recorded_Texas_Historic_Landmarks" title="List of Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks">Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sports_in_Texas" title="Sports in Texas">Sports</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Texas_state_symbols" title="List of Texas state symbols">Symbols</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_people_from_Texas" title="List of people from Texas">Texans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Time_in_Texas" title="Time in Texas">Time</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Tourist_attractions_in_Texas" title="Category:Tourist attractions in Texas">Tourist attractions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transportation_in_Texas" title="Transportation in Texas">Transportation</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Society</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abortion_in_Texas" title="Abortion in Texas">Abortion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Culture_of_Texas" title="Culture of Texas">Culture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crime_in_Texas" title="Crime in Texas">Crime</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Texas" title="Demographics of Texas">Demographics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Economy_of_Texas" title="Economy of Texas">Economy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Education_in_Texas" title="Education in Texas">Education</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gambling_in_Texas" title="Gambling in Texas">Gambling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gun_laws_in_Texas" title="Gun laws in Texas">Gun laws</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homelessness_in_Texas" class="mw-redirect" title="Homelessness in Texas">Homelessness</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Texas" class="mw-redirect" title="LGBT rights in Texas">LGBT rights</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Texas" title="Politics of Texas">Politics</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_regions_of_the_United_States#Texas" title="List of regions of the United States">Regions</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ark-La-Tex" title="Ark-La-Tex">Ark‑La‑Tex</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Big_Bend_(Texas)" title="Big Bend (Texas)">Big Bend</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boca_Chica_(Texas)" title="Boca Chica (Texas)">Boca Chica</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texas_Blackland_Prairies" title="Texas Blackland Prairies">Blackland Prairies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brazos_Valley" title="Brazos Valley">Brazos Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Texas" title="Central Texas">Central Texas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texas_Coastal_Bend" title="Texas Coastal Bend">Coastal Bend</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Concho_Valley" title="Concho Valley">Concho Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cross_Timbers" title="Cross Timbers">Cross Timbers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Texas" title="East Texas">East Texas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edwards_Plateau" title="Edwards Plateau">Edwards Plateau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Golden_Triangle_(Texas)" class="mw-redirect" title="Golden Triangle (Texas)">Golden Triangle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texas_Hill_Country" title="Texas Hill Country">Hill Country</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llano_Estacado" title="Llano Estacado">Llano Estacado</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northeast_Texas" title="Northeast Texas">Northeast Texas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Texas" title="North Texas">North Texas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Osage_Plains" title="Osage Plains">Osage Plains</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texas_panhandle" title="Texas panhandle">Panhandle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Permian_Basin_(North_America)" title="Permian Basin (North America)">Permian Basin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Piney_Woods" title="Piney Woods">Piney Woods</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lower_Rio_Grande_Valley" title="Lower Rio Grande Valley">Rio Grande Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southeast_Texas" title="Southeast Texas">Southeast Texas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Plains" title="South Plains">South Plains</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Texas" title="South Texas">South Texas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texoma" title="Texoma">Texoma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trans-Pecos" title="Trans-Pecos">Trans-Pecos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Texas" title="West Texas">West Texas</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Texas_metropolitan_areas" title="List of Texas metropolitan areas">Metropolitan<br />areas</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abilene,_Texas" title="Abilene, Texas">Abilene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amarillo,_Texas" title="Amarillo, Texas">Amarillo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Austin,_Texas" title="Austin, Texas">Austin</a>–<a href="/wiki/Round_Rock,_Texas" title="Round Rock, Texas">Round Rock</a> (<a href="/wiki/Greater_Austin" title="Greater Austin">Greater Austin</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beaumont,_Texas" title="Beaumont, Texas">Beaumont</a>–<a href="/wiki/Port_Arthur,_Texas" title="Port Arthur, Texas">Port Arthur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brownsville,_Texas" title="Brownsville, Texas">Brownsville</a>–<a href="/wiki/Harlingen,_Texas" title="Harlingen, Texas">Harlingen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/College_Station,_Texas" title="College Station, Texas">College Station</a>–<a href="/wiki/Bryan,_Texas" title="Bryan, Texas">Bryan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Corpus_Christi,_Texas" title="Corpus Christi, Texas">Corpus Christi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dallas" title="Dallas">Dallas</a>–<a href="/wiki/Fort_Worth,_Texas" title="Fort Worth, Texas">Fort Worth</a>–<a href="/wiki/Arlington,_Texas" title="Arlington, Texas">Arlington</a> (<a href="/wiki/Dallas%E2%80%93Fort_Worth_metroplex" title="Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex">DFW</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/El_Paso,_Texas" title="El Paso, Texas">El Paso</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Houston" title="Houston">Houston</a>–<a href="/wiki/The_Woodlands,_Texas" title="The Woodlands, Texas">The Woodlands</a>–<a href="/wiki/Sugar_Land,_Texas" title="Sugar Land, Texas">Sugar Land</a> (<a href="/wiki/Greater_Houston" title="Greater Houston">Greater Houston</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Killeen,_Texas" title="Killeen, Texas">Killeen</a>–<a href="/wiki/Temple,_Texas" title="Temple, Texas">Temple</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laredo,_Texas" title="Laredo, Texas">Laredo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Longview,_Texas" title="Longview, Texas">Longview</a>/<a href="/wiki/Kilgore,_Texas" title="Kilgore, Texas">Kilgore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lubbock,_Texas" title="Lubbock, Texas">Lubbock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McAllen,_Texas" title="McAllen, Texas">McAllen</a>–<a 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href="/wiki/HA._19_(Japanese_Midget_Submarine)" class="mw-redirect" title="HA. 19 (Japanese Midget Submarine)">HA. 19 Japanese Midget Submarine</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#ACE1AF"><a href="/wiki/List_of_National_Natural_Landmarks_in_Texas" title="List of National Natural Landmarks in Texas">National Natural Landmark</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Enchanted_Rock_Archeological_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Enchanted Rock Archeological District">Enchanted Rock</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#E6E6FA"><a href="/wiki/Historic_districts_in_the_United_States" title="Historic districts in the United States">National Historic District</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fredericksburg_Historic_District_(Texas)" title="Fredericksburg Historic District (Texas)">Fredericksburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Klein_Frankreich_Rural_Historic_District" title="Klein Frankreich Rural Historic District">Klein Frankreich Rural Historic District</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#A8EDEF"><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Gillespie_County,_Texas" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Gillespie County, Texas">National Historic Places</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cave_Creek_School_(Gillespie_County,_Texas)" title="Cave Creek School (Gillespie County, Texas)">Cave Creek School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cherry_Spring_School,_Gillespie_County,_Texas" class="mw-redirect" title="Cherry Spring School, Gillespie County, Texas">Cherry Spring School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crabapple_School,_Gillespie_County,_Texas" class="mw-redirect" title="Crabapple School, Gillespie County, Texas">Crabapple School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Feller-Barsch_Homestead" title="Feller-Barsch Homestead">Feller-Barsch Homestead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Martin_Scott" title="Fort Martin Scott">Fort Martin Scott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fredericksburg_Memorial_Library_(Texas)" class="mw-redirect" title="Fredericksburg Memorial Library (Texas)">Fredericksburg Memorial Library</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lower_South_Grape_Creek_School_(Gillespie_County,_Texas)" title="Lower South Grape Creek School (Gillespie County, Texas)">Lower South Grape Creek School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luckenbach_School_(Gillespie_County,_Texas)" title="Luckenbach School (Gillespie County, Texas)">Luckenbach School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meusebach_Creek_School_(Gillespie_County,_Texas)" title="Meusebach Creek School (Gillespie County, Texas)">Meusebach Creek School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morris_Ranch_Schoolhouse" title="Morris Ranch Schoolhouse">Morris Ranch Schoolhouse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nebgen_School" title="Nebgen School">Nebgen School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pecan_Creek_School_(Gillespie_County,_Texas)" title="Pecan Creek School (Gillespie County, Texas)">Pecan Creek School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rheingold_School_(Gillespie_County,_Texas)" title="Rheingold School (Gillespie County, Texas)">Rheingold School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St._Mary%27s_Catholic_Church_(Fredericksburg,_Texas)" title="St. Mary's Catholic Church (Fredericksburg, Texas)">St. Mary's Catholic Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Williams_Creek_School_(Gillespie_County,_Texas)" title="Williams Creek School (Gillespie County, Texas)">Williams Creek School</a></li> <li><a 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