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| | Handbook of Texas Online: |
 | | Jeff Davis County (J-5), in the Trans-Pecos region of west Texas, is bordered by Culberson County to the northwest, Reeves and Pecos counties to the northeast, Brewster County to the southeast, and Presidio County to the southwest; the westernmost point of Jeff Davis County touches the Rio Grande. |
 | | Jeff Davis County comprises 2,258 square miles, varying from mountainous to nearly level, with elevations ranging from 3,800 to 8,378 feet above sea level; the latter, at the top of Mount Livermore, |
 | | in 1890 more than a fifth of the population had been born in Mexico, and in 1930, 58 percent of the population of 1,800 was classified as "Mexican." In that year 30.7 percent of Jeff Davis County residents over the age of ten were illiterate, the fourth-highest percentage in the state. |
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