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Oklahoma Trails has several counties and projects up for adoption. If you would be interested in adopting a county or project look at the Oklahoma Trails. If you find one that you would like to adopt e-mail the State Administrator or Assistant State Administrator.[ Being a County or State Administrator is fun and rewarding. If you have an interest in the history of Oklahoma and the genealogy of it's residents please consider it. If you think "there is no way I can do this" there are many people ready, willing and able to help you. It's not near as difficult as you might think. ] | History |
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Texas County was formed at Oklahoma statehood (16 November 1907) from the central one-third of "Old Beaver County" also known as "No Man's Land". When the formation of the county was authorized by the Constitutional Convention of 1907, the county was so named because it was wholly included within the limits of the Texas Cession of 1850, whereby the ownership of the area was passed from the State of Texas to the United States Government. From 1850 to 1890, its lands were never attached to any state or territory, never surveyed, and never divided into townships and sections. From 1890 to 1907, it was part of Beaver County. Texas County has been a transportation corridor. In the mid- and late-nineteenth century various Plains Indian tribes traversed the region, including the Apache, Comanche, Kiowa, Cheyenne, and Arapaho. In the 1880s two cattle trails extended from Texas to Kansas, passing near Hardesty. Along one that wound its way from south to north, drovers took their herds from Hansford County, Texas, to Kansas. An east-west trail, called the Montana Trail or the National Trail, developed after the state of Kansas banned Texas cattle, because they might carry fever ticks. The route left Camp (Fort) Supply and crossed the Public Land Strip, turning north into the southeastern corner of Colorado. In spring 1888, after creating the town of Liberal, Kansas, in March, the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway (soon controlled by the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific system, CRI&P) constructed a line into the Public Land Strip. The railhead was built outside Kansas in order to facilitate the shipping of Texas herds. Therefore, loading pens were constructed at a rail head near present Tyrone, and watering facilities were set up a few miles distant at Shade's Well. The pens could accommodate eight thousand head, and the water troughs, twice that many. These served ranchers in Beaver County and also trail herds arriving from Colorado, Texas, and New Mexico. Three years later the CRI&P extended its trackage southwest to Dalhart, Texas, and into eastern New Mexico, creating a continuous line from El Paso, Texas, to Chicago. | Links |
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Free Records Search at Familysearch Org | ||
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Cemetery Listing at Find A Grave | ||
Oklahoma Birth Certificates
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State of Oklahoma Genealogy Records Guide
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Oklahoma State Archives
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Oklahoma Genealogical Society Library and Archives
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County Clerk 319 North Main St., Room 2 Guymon, OK 73942 Phone (580)338-3141 Fax (580)338-4311 | Court Clerk 319 North Main St. Guymon, OK 73942 Phone (580)338-3819 | E-Mail Lists and Message Boards |
Texas County Mail List on Rootsweb | ||
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Texas County Message Board on Genforum | Adjacent Counties |
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Beaver County | Cimarron County |