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Presidio County
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county in Texas, United States
Presidio County is a county located in Texas in the southwestern part of the state. It matters as part of Texas's local government structure and serves as an administrative division for the region.
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Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Texas
- Named after
- Presidio del Norte, an eighteenth-century fort
- Seat
- Marfa
- Largest city
- Presidio
- Total
- 3,856 sq mi (9,990 km )
- Land
- 3,855 sq mi (9,980 km )
- Water
- 0.7 sq mi (1.8 km ) 0.02%
- Estimate 2025
- 5,433
- Density
- 2/sq mi (0.77/km )
- Congressional district
- 23rd
- Website
- www .co .presidio .tx .us
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Texas
- Capital
- Marfa
- Population
- 6131
- Area
- 9988
- Elevation
- 1428
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Guadalupe Municipality
- Official website
- www.co.presidio.tx.us
- Image
- Marfa courthouse.jpg
- Households
- 2580
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- topic's main category
- Category:Presidio County, Texas
- Commons category
- Presidio County, Texas
- inception
- 1875-00-00
- water as percent of area
- 0.02
- native label
- Presidio County
- per capita income
- 15687
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Presidio County, Texas
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Encyclopedic overview
Presidio County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 6,131. Its county seat is Marfa. The county was created in 1850 and later organized in 1875. Presidio County (K-5 in Texas topological index of counties) is in the Trans-Pecos region of West Texas and is named for the border settlement of Presidio del Norte (now Ojinaga, Mexico). It is on the Rio Grande, which forms the Mexican border.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Presidio County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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