Talk:List of counties in Texas
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Some helpful information on U.S. county lists can be found atWP:COUNTYLISTS.Tompw (talk)(review)16:31, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The Created dates listed for the counties appear to be inconsistent with the referenced source inFind a County. For each county, the correct date may be the one on the row above. Anderson County was created in 1846, Andrews in 1876, Angelina in 1846, Aransas in 1871, etc.Hugh16 (talk)23:21, 17 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Can we get a map showing all the counties of Texas, similar tothis one for Ohio?Badagnani (talk)21:20, 4 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
What a great, informative page. Thank you guys! -LlywelynII (talk)16:37, 4 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
At least some of the page is wrong. E.g., Polk County is given as "One of the original 23 counties" established in "1836," which hardly makes any sense given that Polk is named in honor of the guy presiding over the 1848 Mexican-American War, wasn't even in office until 1845, and was thedark horse candidate to boot. Polk and Tyler Cos. came from Liberty Co. in 1846. I'll fix those two. For others, seehere. The maps would make a nice addition to various history of Texas pages as well, I think. -LlywelynII (talk)17:43, 16 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Must we have the link to [Santa Fe County] redirect back to this page? I think a red link would be best here.MistaPotta (talk)03:50, 2 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The etymology mentions the county was named after a Spanish engineer named Pedro Medina. The link, however, is to a modern Pedro Medina who has nothing to do with the county.—Precedingunsigned comment added by204.64.160.222 (talk)14:26, 9 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
The Texas results are available for the 2010 census and it'd be pretty good if this list could be amended to feature that data. I'm not a particularly experienced editor which is why I'd rather let someone else do it. This is the first site I came to which had the data, I don't know if it's ok for a reference.http://txsdc.utsa.edu/.VanillaBear23 (talk)13:34, 9 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
How many original counties (municipalities) were there really? The page says that there were 23 original counties at the time that Texas became a state. "One of the original 23 counties" is mentioned for only 22 counties in the list. I checked for another original county in the list and could not find one.NewYorkeruser (talk)23:09, 13 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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The statement that counties are not responsible for providing ambulance service is misleading. Many rural counties do run their own taxpayer supported EMS that is governed by the Commissioners Court and not by a separate elected board, and are paid and not volunteer. Counties absolutely have statutory authority to run their own ambulance service without creating a separate emergency service district, and many rural counties, including Colorado County, do so. For example, out of a roughly $13 million annual budget, Colorado County spends approximately $1.5 million - $1.8 million per year on maintaining six or seven ambulances, and 20+ full time paramedics and EMTs, all of whom are county employees on the Texas County and District Retirement System.
I can't find out how to distinguish the characters layered atop the county-squares map. They are all mashed together in heaps.
Setting my font-size down to 14 doesn't seem to help.
So this is at least an accessability fail... and worthlessas is.
I get that it's tough ... searching for county maps online, I see that distinguishing 254 counties isn't easy for mappers. It might help to break the state map up into 4 regions distinguished by major cities ... no other ideas.
Twang (talk)00:47, 24 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
This list is a useless, unsorted mass of various counties, without any aid or context. Most offices cannot make use of this list due to lack of any geographic relation. The alphabetized names are useless as an index.
Most users of this list have to waste a lot of time to figure out where any county is. This list has been a historical source of great frustration, due to less useful information having priority over locales that need to be found by most of the population.
Previous users made this list readable and useful, but that has been undone by an advocate of the lesser populated counties, taht are not as notable information.--96.8.132.38 (talk)17:34, 10 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_counties_in_Texas&oldid=1027901451
This revision has specifically made this list a complete waste of time to use.96.8.132.38 (talk)17:38, 10 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
https://www.countystate.info/Texas.htm is listed as a source for this wikipedia page, but it seems very sketchy and I think it should be removed, looks like malware.2600:1700:85DD:680F:59EE:7CB:BD38:694F (talk)23:11, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
