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West Texas | 70 Counties

Andrews
Bailey
Borden
Brewster
Brown
Callahan
Cochran
Coke
Coleman
Comanche
Concho
Crane
Crockett
Crosby
Culberson
Dawson
Dickens
Eastland
Ector
El Paso
Fisher
Floyd
Gaines
Garza
Glasscock
Hale
Haskell
Hockley
Howard
Hudspeth
Irion
Jeff Davis
Jones
Kent
Kimble
King
Knox
Lamb
Loving
Lubbock
Lynn
Martin
Mason
McCulloch
Menard
Midland
MitchellMotley
Nolan
Pecos
Presidio
Reagan
Reeves
Runnels
Schleicher
Scurry
Shackelford
Stephens
Sterling
Stonewall
Sutton
Taylor
Terrell
Terry
Throckmorton
Tom Green
Upton
Ward
Winkler
Yoakum

Beginning in the mid 1800s, the U.S. Army established several military posts, including Fort Stockton in 1867, which helped to control the frontier and maintain order in West Texas. By 1880, the Texas Pacific Railroad began to lay tracks westward from Fort Worth. Populations grew and the 1920s' discovery of oil in the Permian Basin led to a boom and bust economy that lives on today.
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1867
FORT STOCKTON
TEXAS MILITARY POST

WEST
TEXAS
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