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The unincorporated community of Tyrone, in southern Texas County, was the scene of a mass murder on February 26, 2015, when a violent and unstable convicted felon, shot and killed seven people, including several family members, and wounded another before taking his own life. It was a shock to the county, which generally has a very low rate of homicide.<ref>https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/02/27/tyrone-missouri-9-dead/24108089/</ref>
The unincorporated community of Tyrone, in southern Texas County, was the scene of a mass murder on February 26, 2015, when a violent and unstable convicted felon, shot and killed seven people, including several family members, and wounded another before taking his own life. It was a shock to the county, which generally has a very low rate of homicide.<ref>https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/02/27/tyrone-missouri-9-dead/24108089/</ref>
==Geography==
Texas County is located in south-central Missouri, almost equidistant between the state's western and eastern boundaries. It is mostly quadrilateral in shape, except for a notch cut from its northeastern corner by [[Dent County, Missouri|Dent County]]. It is bordered on the northeast by Dent County, on the east by [[Shannon County, Missouri|Shannon County]], on the south by [[Howell County, Missouri|Howell County]], on the southwest by Douglas County, on the west by Wright County, on the northwest by Laclede County, on the northwest by Pulaski County, and on the north by Phelps County.
Texas County is the largest county by land area in the state of Missouri, totaling 1,179.22 square miles, including 1,177.27 of land and 1.96 of water.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20131021170230/http://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/docs/gazetteer/counties_list_29.txt</ref> It is slightly larger than the state of [[Rhode Island]]. Lying entirely within the Ozarks, most of the county consists of an elevated, rolling plateau, though there is more rugged terrain along the Big Piney River in the north and the upper reaches of the Current watershed in the east. The highest elevation, though, is an unnamed high point a few miles northwest of Cabool, at 1,660 feet, while the lowest, at about 840 feet, is found along the Jacks Fork of the Current River in the southeastern corner as it flows into Shannon County.<ref>https://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=6555</ref>
There are two federal highways in the county: U.S. Route 60, which crosses through Cabool and the southwestern corner of the county, and U.S. Route 63, which is the main north-south thoroughfare, running through the cities of Licking and Houston before joining U.S. 60 at Cabool. Other major roads include Missouri State Highway 17, which enters from the southeast and passes through Summersville and Houston before continuing northwest into Laclede County; Highway 32, which runs east to west through Licking and the northern part of the county; Highway 38, which only crosses rural areas; and Highway 137, which has its northern terminus at Licking and from there continues south into Howell County.
==Communities==
==Communities==