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West Texas | 70 Counties

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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
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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

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WEST
TEXAS

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West Texas boasts 70 counties. In far West Texas, the rugged plateaus, desert mountains and remote location of the Big Bend area helped preserve its distinctive culture and natural beauty we know today.

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