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Morris County
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county in Texas, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Texas
- Seat
- Daingerfield
- Largest city
- Daingerfield
- Total
- 259 sq mi (670 km )
- Land
- 252 sq mi (650 km )
- Water
- 6.7 sq mi (17 km ) 2.6%
- Estimate 2025
- 12,133
- Density
- 47.5/sq mi (18.3/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 1st
- Website
- www .co .morris .tx .us
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Texas
- Contains
- Daingerfield
- Capital
- Daingerfield
- Population
- 11973
- Area
- 670
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Titus County
- Official website
- www.co.morris.tx.us
- Image
- Morris county tx courthouse.jpg
- Households
- 5170
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- topic's main category
- Category:Morris County, Texas
- Commons category
- Morris County, Texas
- inception
- 1875-00-00
- different from
- Morrison County
- water as percent of area
- 2.6
- native label
- Morris County
- per capita income
- 22868
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Morris County, Texas
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Encyclopedic overview
Morris County is a county located near the eastern border of the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 11,973. Its county seat is Daingerfield. Morris County is probably named for William Wright Morris, an early judge and planter from Henderson, also in northeast Texas. As of 2016, Morris County is no longer one of six entirely dry, prohibition counties in the state of Texas. Morris County is "partially wet."
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Morris County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.