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Edwards County
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county in Texas, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Texas
- Named after
- Haden Edwards
- Seat
- Rocksprings
- Largest town
- Rocksprings
- Total
- 2,120 sq mi (5,500 km )
- Land
- 2,118 sq mi (5,490 km )
- Water
- 2.0 sq mi (5.2 km ) 0.09%
- Estimate 2025
- 1,370
- Density
- 0.6714/sq mi (0.2592/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 23rd
- Website
- www .co .edwards .tx .us
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Haden Edwards
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Texas
- Contains
- Rocksprings
- Capital
- Rocksprings
- Population
- 1422
- Area
- 5491
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Uvalde County
- Official website
- www.co.edwards.tx.us
- Image
- Edwards county tx courthouse.jpg
- Households
- 787
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- water as percent of area
- 0.09
- native label
- Edwards County
- Commons category
- Edwards County, Texas
- topic's main category
- Category:Edwards County, Texas
- inception
- 1883-00-00
- different from
- Edwards County
- per capita income
- 20655
Sources (11)
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Encyclopedic overview
Texas Hill Country in Edwards County south of Rocksprings Lone wooden windmill in eastern Edwards County
Edwards County is a county located on the Edwards Plateau in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 1,422. The county seat is Rocksprings. The county was created in 1858 and organized in 1883. It is named for Haden Edwards, an early settler of Nacogdoches, Texas. The Edwards Aquifer and Edwards Plateau are named after the county by reason of their locations.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Edwards County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.