Erastus "Deaf" Smith as he appears at the Deaf Smith County Museum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaf_Smith_County,_Texas
Posted on 06/05/2020 3:37:05 PM PDT by ConservativeDude
I’d say the odds of having a county, town, spring, or creek in Texas named after you these days are slim or none.
Even with the population expected to continue to rise in the Lone Star State throughout the 21st century, most existing towns will just get bigger and bigger. Some large subdivisions and developments around big cities have taken on new names and evolved into incorporated cities. Our streams and rivers were given names long ago by explorers and early settlers who ventured across the Texas landscape.
The names they gave them served as important signpost to travelers who often measured distance and direction of travel based on their names and locations.
(Excerpt) Read more at weatherforddemocrat.com ...
there is actually a China Grove named in the Doobie Brothers song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTCyO9MpGUM
Interesting. Wonder where Bexar county got it’s name? Wouldn’t want to have been a surveyor there during Apache/Comanche years!
good question....something the Mexican authorities deemed important, I guess?
And yah. Surveying in those days needed to be done quickly....with one hand on your gun!
I am looking forward to reading about your county’s naming.
Thank you for sharing this. Will bookmark. :)
My understanding as a young Marine stationed in a small detachment at Lackland AFB, I was told it came from the Indian Chief Bear who signed his name on the treaties with an X between the e and the a in Bear...just what I heard when there back in the 80’s...not sure if true but sounds good...
One huge reason why I chose to leave my home state of Wisconsin for Texas was and remains my love of the history, here. It is so rich in so may ways and on so many levels. Stephen F. Austin passed away from pneumonia at the early age of 42, just 17 miles from my home.
Another reason was that Texas put me a nice round 1,200 miles away from my ex-wife.
:-)
Which racist county name will be changed first?
“Loving County in far West Texas, named for Oliver Loving who once ranched in Palo Pinto County, was created in 1887 but not formally organized until 1931, making it the last one to be organized in the state.”
Population 137
Square miles 677
Erastus "Deaf" Smith as he appears at the Deaf Smith County Museum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaf_Smith_County,_Texas
Thanks for posting.
The county was named for San Antonio de Béxar, one of the 23 Mexican municipalities (administrative divisions) of Texas at the time of its independence. San Antonio de Béxar—originally Villa de San Fernando de Béxar—was the first civil government established by the Spanish in the province of Texas.
https://www.bexar.org/2985/History-of-Bexar-County
we very much wanted to move to Texas, it has so many positive elements (especially outside the largest cities)
but we checked the weather reports for all 254 counties (yup! 254)..... and they are all 100+ degrees in summer. All of them.
Texans are tough ! which is a compliment. i fear we are a bit more delicate, 100+ degrees scares us away, alas. wonderful state!
"The county was named for San Antonio de Béxar, one of the 23 Mexican municipalities (administrative divisions) of Texas at the time of its independence. San Antonio de Béxar—originally Villa de San Fernando de Béxar—was the first civil government established by the Spanish in the province of Texas."
I too passed through Lackland on my way into the Air Force.
Just saw your explanation after I posted mine. Thanks and sorry for dupe.
Bexar county is one of the most mis-pronounced names ever.
It is like the town of Refugio.
Bexar (Behar)
Refugio (Refurio)
Bexar works wonders.
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