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Johnson County, Texas

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Formed From

Johnson county was created and organized in 1854 from parts of McLennan, Hill and Ellis counties. Wardville was named as the county seat. It was named for Confederate Colonel Middleton Tate Johnson, a Texas Ranger, who also fought in the Mexican War. [1]

Adjacent counties

Northwest
Parker County		 North
Tarrant County		 Northeast
Dallas County
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West
Hood County
"De Cordova Bend of Brazos River"
Somervell County		 West arrow Johnson County,Texas East arrow East
Ellis County
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Southwest
"Lake Whitney"
"Brazos River"
Bosque County		 South
Hill County		 Southeast
Ellis County
"Start of the Texas Hill Country"
Hill County
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History/Timeline

Johnson county is named for a Texas ranger, and soldier named Middleton Johnson. When Texas legislature created Johnson county, it named Wardville as first county seat, which can be found on Lake Pat Cleburne. As with many county seats, Wardville must not have gained sufficient population. After the county was split, they named the new county seat Camp Henderson.. This was renamed to honor Patrick Cleburne, a Texas Confederate General.

Henry Briden was Johnson county's first settler. To see his log cabin, travel down State Highway 174 to the Nolan River, which is in Rio Vista, Johnson co., Texas. In 1856 Buchanan became the county seat.

In 1867 Johnson County was split, and the western half became Hood County. Camp Henderson became the new county seat and the settlement was renamed Cleburne in honor of Confederate General Patrick Cleburne.

1860 -The first church of the area was constructed at the edge of a stand of trees. [2] A second church was then built near that first church. Settlers constructed it of logs on some land that belonged to the Baptist. However all denominations used this building for a church. A description of it was log building, with a puncheon floor with batten door. The pews or seats were very primitive. During week days this building was a school. The Masonic lodge used the second floor, under a dispensation. When the building, the church and school used the first floor and the upper floor was used by the Masons. By 1875, the Baptists built themselves another building. But the school was taught in this first church until 1881. [3]



Bass Family Ranches, Location in Aranasas, Atascosa, Brooks, Hidalgo, Johnson, Kenedy, Kleberg, Parker, Red River and Tarrant counties (ACREAGE: 150,000 Acres)
The Basses are similar to the Easts. The family is very tightlipped. Neither the family or employees will confirm location, acreage. According to what we can find, there are 3 Texas ranches.
1) Lee Bass owns El Coyote (S of Falfurrias )
2) Ed owns the Wainscot (SW of Fort Worth)
3) the Bass family owns the San Jose cattle company on the Gulf Coast as well as additional acreage scattered around Texas..
4) Winfield Scott founded Winscott, founded by Winfield Scott (Fort Worth millionaire)
5) San Jose Ranch is located on San Jose Island (north of South Padre. Cattle would have to swim or be transported by barge to and from the mainland. (The Island has an airstrip, but is used for people).[4]


Land Grants

Government Offices

The courthouse was designed by architects, Lang and Witchell.. Construction occurred in 1913 on the Cleburne town square. Then construction was of brick and cement, which helps guard against fire. The location is the Cleburne town square. [5]

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 734 square miles (1,900 km2), of which 725 square miles (1,880 km2) is land and a low amount of water- 9.8 square miles (1.3%) is water.[6]
Airports

Lakes

  • Lake Alvarado
  • Lake Pat Cleburne "Lake Pat"

Hospitals

Major Highways

  • Interstate 35W
  • US Highway 67
  • US Highway 287
  • US Highway 377
  • State Highway 81
  • State Highway 121 Chisholm Trail Parkway
  • State Highway 174

Railroads

  • BNSF - Burlington Northern Santa Fe
  • FWWR - Fort Worth & Western Railroad operates under their parent company, Tarantula Corporation, Fort Worth, Texas.
  • UP - Union Pacific Railroad

Local Resources

Agriculture

  • Beef Cattle
  • Cotton
  • Hay
  • Hogs
  • Horses
  • Oats
  • Sorghum
  • Wheat
  • Dairies -quite a few dairies are in this county.

Natural Resources

  • Gravel
  • Limestone
  • Sand
  • Natural Gas/Oil

Protected Areas

  • Cleburne State Park, Cleburne
  • Ham Creek Park, Lake Whitney

Demographics=

As of Jul 1, 2014 it was estimated there were 126,811 people., Calculations show the population 174 people living per square mile.. This county had majority white population with a low percent of Black, Native American, etc. people... The next highest population was Mexican American (12%). In this county there can be found about 65% of the households were married and 40% of them had children living with them. Averaging shows this average size of a family was 3.4. It should be noted as the decades change the statistics change.

Cities

Population as of Jan 1, 2014 is shown in parenthesis.

Unincorporated Towns

Festivals

  • County Pioneer Days, Alvarado
  • Whistle Stop Christmas, Cleburne

Schools

Rockin Schoolhouse

Colleges/Universities

  • Southwestern Adventist University, Keene

Public Schools

Listed by Category within Independent School District (ISD).
Alvarado ISD

Burleson ISD

Cleburne ISD

  • Adams Elementary, Cleburne
  • Coleman Elementary School
  • Cooke Elementary School
  • Gerard Elementary School
  • Irving Elementary School
  • Marti Elementary School
  • Santa Fe Elementary...

""Middle Schools""

  • Ad Wheat Middle School
  • Lowell Smith Jr Middle...

High Schools

Cleburne High School

Team School

Godley ISD

Godlet Elementary School, Godley, Texas
Godley Elementary, Godley
Godley Intermediate, Godley

Joshua ISD

Keene ISD

Public Elementary Schools

Keene Elementary
Keene Leadership School

Public Junior High School(s)

Keene Junior High School

Public High School(s)

Keene High School

Private Schools

Chisholm Trail Academy
Keene Adventist Elementary School


Cemeteries



Historical Census

Census yr. Pop.
18604,305
18704,923
188017,911
1890 22,313
190034,460
191034,460
192037,286
193033,317
194030,384
195031,390
196034,720
197045,769
198067,649
199097,165
2000126,811
2010150,934
2015 est.159,990

Notables

  • Middleton Tate Johnson was born in 1819 in the Spartanburg District of South Caroline. He was a Texas Ranger and a Colonel in The Confederacy. Johnson County is named fro him. He died in 1866.

Sources

  1. ↑ https://texasalmanac.com/index.php?q=topics/government/johnson-county
  2. ↑ https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/Johnson_County,_Texas_Genealogy
  3. ↑ https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/Johnson_County,_Texas_Genealogy
  4. ↑ http://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-biggest-ranches/
  5. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_County,_Texas
  6. ↑ wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_County,_Texas




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Richardson-7161 Mary Richardson
Hi Bob, I keep running into a schools area with a picture you uploaded.. It is not showing the image . I imagine you have it on our other counties.??? mary
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