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La Salle County
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county in Texas, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Texas
- Named after
- René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle
- Seat
- Cotulla
- Largest city
- Cotulla
- Total
- 1,494 sq mi (3,870 km )
- Land
- 1,487 sq mi (3,850 km )
- Water
- 7.5 sq mi (19 km ) 0.5%
- Estimate 2025
- 6,517
- Density
- 4.5/sq mi (1.7/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 23rd
- Website
- www .co .la-salle .tx .us
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Texas
- Contains
- Cotulla
- Capital
- Cotulla
- Population
- 6664
- Area
- 3870
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Duval County
- Headquarters
- Cotulla
- Official website
- www.co.la-salle.tx.us
- Image
- 2013 La Salle County, TX Courthouse photo IMG 7718 1.jpg
- Households
- 2142
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- Commons category
- La Salle County, Texas
- topic's main category
- Category:La Salle County, Texas
- inception
- 1858-02-01
- different from
- LaSalle Parish
- water as percent of area
- 0.5
- native label
- La Salle County
- per capita income
- 17177
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Encyclopedic overview
La Salle County is a county in Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 6,664. Its county seat is Cotulla. The county was created in 1858 and later organized in 1880. It is named for René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, a 17th-century French explorer.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “La Salle County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.