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'''Texas County''' is a county in south-central [[Missouri]]. First organized in 1843, it is one of four Missouri counties to share a name with another U.S. state (the others being [[Mississippi County, Missouri|Mississippi]], [[Oregon County, Missouri|Oregon]], and [[Washington County, Missouri|Washington]] Counties), and the state's largest county by land area. It had a population of 26,008 at the 2010 census. [[Houston, Missouri|Houston]] is the county seat, and [[Licking, Missouri|Licking]] is the largest city.
'''Texas County''' is a county in south-central [[Missouri]]. First organized in 1843, it is one of four Missouri counties to share a name with another U.S. state (the others being [[Mississippi County, Missouri|Mississippi]], [[Oregon County, Missouri|Oregon]], and [[Washington County, Missouri|Washington]] Counties), and the state's largest county by land area. It had a population of 26,008 at the 2010 census. [[Houston, Missouri|Houston]] is the county seat, and [[Licking, Missouri|Licking]] is the largest city.
==History==
Like much of south-central Missouri, the future area of Texas County was at one time occupied by various Indian tribes, which left behind a variety of archaeological evidence, including mounds and rock paintings. By the colonial period, it was controlled by the [[Osage]] nation, which ceded it to American authorities in an 1808 land grant.
American settlers, chiefly from states of the Upper South such as [[Virginia]], [[Kentucky]], and [[Tennessee]], began moving into the region by the mid-1810s, including the famous frontiersman [[Daniel Boone]] for a time. Their numbers steadily increased over the next generation, with many pioneers clustering along the Big Piney and Current Rivers, where they built sawmills to cut and process the local pine timber and then float it downstream. Others established farms and pastures in the many fertile valleys that dot the area.<ref>https://www.texascountymissouri.gov/county-history/</ref>
The region was first organized as a county on February 17, 1843, and was given the name "Ashley County," in honor of William Henry Ashley (1785-1839), a former fur trader and the first lieutenant governor of Missouri, who had at one time operated a trading post within its boundaries. On February 14, 1845, however, its name was changed to Texas County, in honor of what was then still the Republic of [[Texas]]. Many from this section had emigrated to Texas, and it has been suggested (probably not accurately) that its being the largest county in the state, just as Texas would become the largest state in the Union, influenced the choice. The imminent admission of Texas into the United States, which would be formalized only days later, may also have played a role.<ref>https://collections.shsmo.org/manuscripts/columbia/C2366/texas-county</ref>
==Communities==
==Communities==
* [[Plato, Missouri|Plato]]
* [[Plato, Missouri|Plato]]
* [[Raymondville, Missouri|Raymondville]]
* [[Raymondville, Missouri|Raymondville]]
==References==
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[[Category:Missouri]]
[[Category:Missouri]]
[[Category:Counties]]
[[Category:Counties]]