Uvalde County ( ; ) is a

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located in the

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. As of the 2020 census, its population was 24,564. Its

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is Uvalde. The county was created in 1850 and organized in 1856. It is named for

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, the

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governor of

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. Uvalde County was founded by

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, who also founded the city of Uvalde, Texas. Uvalde County comprises the Uvalde, TX Micropolitan Statistical Area.

History

Native Americans

Artifacts establish human habitation dating back to 7000 B.C. Evidence of a permanent Indian

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on the Leona River at a place south of the

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site is indicated in the written accounts of Fernando del Bosque's exploration in 1675.

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and

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continued hunting and raiding settlers into the 19th century. Texas State Historical Association

Early explorations

On January 9, 1790,

, governor of Coahuila and commandant of the

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, led 600 men to a decisive victory over the Apaches near the site of modern Utopia Texas Escapes – Blueprints For Travel, LLC. at a place known then as Arroyo de la Soledad. In honor of his victory, the

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area was thereafter called Cañon de Ugalde. French

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visited the area in the late 1820s.

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guided a group of silver

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into the area of north central Uvalde County in the 1830s. A trail used by General Adrián Woll's

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on its way to attack

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in 1842 crossed the territory of Uvalde County and became the main highway to San Antonio.

Early settlements

was established in 1849 to repress Indian depredations on the international border with

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, and was served by the Overland Southern Mail. One of the first settlers to the environs was William Washington Arnett, who arrived in the winter of 1852. The Canyon de Ugalde Land Company, formed by land speculators in San Antonio in 1837, began purchasing

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grants in Uvalde County in the late 1830s.

, who with a partner, Nathan L. Stratton, purchased an undivided

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and labor on the Leona River in 1853 at the future site of Uvalde. May 2, 1855, Black hired San Antonio lithographer Wilhelm Carl August Thielepape, Texas State Historical Association and laid out Encina, the town later known as Uvalde. City of Uvalde Waresville settlement by Capt. William Ware in the upper Sabinal Canyon and Patterson Settlement by George W. Patterson, John Leakey, and A. B. Dillard on the Sabinal River coincided with Reading Black's development of the Leona River at Encina.

County established and growth

In November 1855, Reading Wood Black successfully lobbied the

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to organize Uvalde County. On May 12, the county was formally organized. On June 14, Encina was named county seat. The second floor of the courthouse was made into a school, and six school districts were organized for the county in 1858. The San Antonio-El Paso Mail route was extended along the county's main road with a stop at Fort Inge in 1857. Conflict between

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and

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s during and after the Mexican War continued in Uvalde County, with the reported lynching of eleven Mexicans near the

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in 1855. Laws passed in 1857 prohibited Mexicans from traveling through the county. Residents of Uvalde County voted 76–16 against

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from the Union. The abandonment of Fort Inge immediately after secession was followed by renewed Indian attacks. Many men in Uvalde County fought for the Confederacy, while some Unionists fled to Mexico to avoid

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. Uvalde County endured three decades of unrelenting lawlessness after the

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. Violence, lawlessness and Confederate-Union conflicts among citizens were so pervasive that armed guards were employed to assist the county tax assessor and collector, and the county had no

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for nearly two years. The years immediately following the Civil War were marked by conflicts between Confederates and Unionists returning to live in Uvalde County. Smugglers,

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s and horse rustlers, and numerous other desperadoes saturated the area, including notorious cattle rustler, J. King Fisher who was appointed Uvalde sheriff in 1881. Texas State Historical Association Willis Newton of The Newton Gang robbed his first train near Uvalde. Jess and Joe Newton retired to Uvalde. Texas State Historical Association The Uvalde ''Umpire'' began publication in 1878 and the ''Hesparian'' in 1879. The Galveston, Harrisburg, and San Antonio Railway was built through the county, passing through Sabinal and Uvalde City, in 1881. William M. Landrum introduced

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s to the area in the 1880s. By the turn of the century, goats outnumbered cattle. Old West lawman

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lived in the county from 1891 to 1900. By 1905 the Southern Pacific Railroad had established railheads in Uvalde, Knippa, and Sabinal. The local bee industry developed a product that received first place in the 1900

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World's Fair. Garner State Park built by the

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and opened in 1941. Garner Army Air Field the same year. The

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, completed in 1937, produced a million

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and sunfish in the 1970s. Approximately $45 million was generated by farming in Uvalde County in 1974. In January 1989 Uvalde County withdrew from the Edwards Underground Water District. In 1990 Uvalde County had a population of 23,340, with 60% identified as Hispanic.

Desegregation

From the

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in 1910, immigrant labor force cleared large tracts of land and dug ditches as irrigation spread throughout the county. The Uvalde and Northern Railway to Camp Wood, the Asphalt Beltway Railway in 1921, and the expansion of the asphalt mines in far southwestern Uvalde County at Blewett and Dabney were completed with the help of Mexican labor. By 1960 Mexican Americans made up one half of Uvalde County's 16,015 population. Seasonal migrant workers continued to move to Uvalde and Sabinal during the 1960s. The Alien Land Laws of 1891, 1892 and 1921 prohibited ownership of Texas land by non-citizen residents. Texas State Historical Association The laws were repealed in 1965 by the Fifty-ninth Texas Legislature. These and other discriminatory deed restrictions had limited

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s in the purchase of town lots in the county. Efforts to gain civil rights for Hispanics in Uvalde County began with the establishment of the Tomas Valle Post of the American Legion. County churches maintained segregated places of worship until an integrated Catholic church emerged in Uvalde in 1965. The Mexican American Youth Organization formed in Uvalde City in 1968 and eventually led to a 6-week walkout by more than 600 Mexican-American students an on April 14, 1970. Texas State Historical Association The Texas Rangers and the

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responded to requests by the school board to help control the volatile situation. Senator Walter F. Mondale, chairman of the

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Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity, went to Uvalde on July 30, 1970, and criticized city officials in an interview published in the Uvalde Leader News. A 1970 class action lawsuit was filed by Genoveva Morales on behalf of her children against the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District. In 1975, the

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found that Uvalde C.I.S.D. in Texas had failed to desegregate its school system in violation of the

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and

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. In 1976, the Court ordered Uvalde C.I.S.D. to comply. In 2007, Uvalde C.I.S.D. sought to dismiss the desegregation order. The

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(MALDEF) opposed. On September 15, 2008, a settlement was reached.

2017 church bus crash

On March 29, 2017, thirteen senior citizens from the First

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Church of

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who had completed a retreat at Alto Frio Baptist Encampment near Leakey in

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were killed when Jack D. Young, the 20-year-old driver of a pickup, crashed into the church minivan on U.S. Highway 83 inside Uvalde County near Garner State Park. One person survived the crash in critical condition. The collision was one of the deadliest in memory in Uvalde County. Young, who worked on his father's ranch and at a golf course and had no criminal record, told a witness, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry," and said that he had been on his

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at the time of the crash. Jody Kuchler, a welder from Leakey who saw the accident, said that the driver of the church vehicle moved over to try to avoid Young's incoming pickup but was blocked by the presence of a guard rail.

2022 school shooting

On May 24, 2022, 19 children and two teachers were killed in a

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in Uvalde, Texas. The shooter, Salvador Rolando Ramos, had shot his grandmother before driving to Robb Elementary School, where he entered the building without opposition. Local officers, believing the shooter to be barricaded safely inside the school, stood outside waiting for further instruction. Video shows local officers forcing parents behind police tape, pinning them down and threatening to

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them, preventing them from trying to save their children's lives. After an hour, the killer was shot by

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agents.

Geography

According to the

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, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (0.4%) is water.

Major highways

U.S. Highway 83 * US 90

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State Highway 55 * Texas 127

State Highway 127

Adjacent counties

(north) * Bandera County (northeast) * Medina County (east) * Frio County (southeast) * Zavala County (south) * Maverick County (southwest) * Kinney County (west) *

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(northwest)

Demographics

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 24,564 people, 8,921 households, and 6,206 families residing in the county. As of the

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of 2000, there were 25,926 people, 8,559 households, and 6,641 families residing in the county. The

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was . There were 10,166 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the county was 75.68%

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, 0.36%

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, 0.68% Native American, 0.39% Asian, 0.08%

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, 19.65% from other races, and 3.16% from two or more races. 65.91% of the population were

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or Latino of any race. There were 8,559 households, out of which 40.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 59.4% were

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living together, 13.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 22.4% were non-families. 19.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.96 and the average family size was 3.42. In the county, the population was spread out, with 31.4% under the age of 18, 9.80% from 18 to 24, 25.3% from 25 to 44, 20% from 45 to 64, and 13.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 32 years. For every 100 females there were 95.00 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.70 males. The median income for a household in the county was $27,164, and the median income for a family was $30,671. Males had a median income of $25,135 versus $16,486 for females. The

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for the county was $12,557. About 19.90% of families and 24.3% of the population were below the

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, including 33.9% of those under age 18 and 18.6% of those age 65 or over.

Communities

Cities

* Sabinal * Uvalde (county seat)

Census-designated places

* Knippa *

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* Uvalde Estates

Unincorporated community

* Concan

Politics

In contrast to the rest of heavily Hispanic South Texas, Uvalde County is typically a Republican stronghold. The last Democrat to win it on the presidential level was Lyndon Johnson in 1964.

Education

School districts within the county include: * Knippa Independent School District *

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Nueces Canyon Consolidated Independent School District Nueces Canyon Consolidated Independent School District is a public school district based in Barksdale, Texas, US. In addition to Barksdale, the district serves the city of Camp Wood and rural areas in southeastern Edwards, western Real, a ...

* Sabinal Independent School District * Utopia Independent School District * Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District

Southwest Texas Junior College Southwest Texas College, formerly Southwest Texas Junior College (SWTJC), is a public community college with four campuses serving 11 counties in southwest Texas: unincorporated Uvalde County (next to Uvalde and on the site of Garner Field), ...

, the designated community college for the whole county under the Texas Education Code, has a campus next to Uvalde on the site of

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. The Garner Field facility also houses a campus of

Sul Ross State University Sul Ross State University (SRSU) is a public university in Alpine, Texas, United States. The main campus is the primary institution of higher education serving the nineteen-county Big Bend, Texas, Big Bend region of far West Texas. Branch campuse ...

Notes

References

External links

Uvalde County government's website
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''Inventory of the county archives of Texas : Uvalde County, no. 232''
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Portal to Texas History

''Uvalde County Profile" from the Texas Association of Counties
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