Gonzales County
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Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Texas
- Named after
- City of Gonzales
- Seat
- Gonzales
- Largest city
- Gonzales
- Total
- 1,070 sq mi (2,800 km )
- Land
- 1,067 sq mi (2,760 km )
- Water
- 3.2 sq mi (8.3 km ) 0.3%
- Estimate 2025
- 20,159
- Density
- 18.42/sq mi (7.112/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 27th
- Website
- www .co .gonzales .tx .us
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
The Gonzales County Courthouse. The Second Empire-style building was added to National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
Gonzales County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas, adjacent to Greater Austin-San Antonio. As of the 2020 census, its population was 19,653. The county is named for its county seat, the city of Gonzales. The county was created in 1836 and organized the following year. As of August 2020, under strict budgetary limitations, the County of Gonzales governmental body is unique in that it claims to have no commercial paper, regarding it as "the absence of any county debt."