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  Lavaca County, Texas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lavaca County is a county located in the state of Texas.
In the county, the population is spread out with 24.20% under the age of 18, 6.90% from 18 to 24, 23.50% from 25 to 44, 23.60% from 45 to 64, and 21.80% who are 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a household in the county is $29,132, and the median income for a family is $36,760.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lavaca_County,_Texas   (382 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Lavaca County, Texas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Lavaca County, Texas The University of Texas at Austin, often called UT or Texas, is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System.
The Edwards Plateau is a region of west-central Texas which is bounded by the Balcones Fault to the south and east, the Llano Uplift and the plains region to the north, and the Pecos River to the west.
Laredo is the county seat of Webb County, Texas, United States, on the north shore of the Rio Grande (Rio Bravo), across from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Lavaca-County,-Texas   (2049 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online: CALHOUN COUNTY
The approximate center of the county is at 33°40' north latitude and 95°06' west longitude, five miles southwest of Port Lavaca, the county seat.
Calhoun County residents were active in the trade and commerce stimulated by the Federalist wars of Texas and northern Mexico and the French blockade of Mexican ports in 1838 and 1839.
From 1940 to 1950 the population increased from 5,911 to 8,971.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/CC/hcc2.html   (2746 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online: LAVACA COUNTY
Lavaca County is on U.S. highways 77 and Alternate 90 east of San Antonio in the Claypan area of southeast Central Texas.
The center of the county is at approximately 29°25' north latitude and 96°55' west longitude, near the county seat, Hallettsville.
The county is bounded on the north by Fayette County, on the east by Colorado and Jackson counties, on the south by Victoria County, and on the west by DeWitt and Gonzales counties.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/LL/hcl5.html   (2936 words)

  
 Lavaca County, Texas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In 1842 the Republic of Texas Congress established a judicial county from portions of Fayette, Colorado, Jackson, Victoria, and Gonzales counties and named it La Baca County.
In 1846 the area was renamed Lavaca County, and it became a regularly constituted county with 140 taxpayers.
Petersburg and Hallettsville vied to be county seat, and after two hotly contested elections Hallettsville won the contest in 1852; only by force of arms, however, were the men of Hallettsville able to liberate the county records from Petersburg.
www.reynoldsrecords.com /texas/lavaca.html   (104 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online: HALLETTSVILLE, TX
Hallettsville, the county seat of Lavaca County, is on the Lavaca River at the intersection of U.S. Highway 77 and alternate U.S. Highway 90A, eighty miles southeast of Austin.
After Texas became a state and Lavaca County was organized in 1846, Hallettsville and the nearby town of Petersburg competed to be county seat.
Though Hallettsville was officially declared the county seat on August 28, 1852, allegations of election fraud and legal maneuvering were not completely resolved by the courts until 1860.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/HH/hgh1.html   (604 words)

  
 Lavaca County, Texas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
As of the census of 2000, there are 19,210 people, 7,669 households, and 5,391 families residing in the county.
The racial makeup of the county is 86.86% White, 6.79% African American, 0.19% Native American, 0.16% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 4.84% from other races, and 1.14% from two or more races.
It uses material from the wikipedia article Lavaca County, Texas.
www.eurofreehost.com /la/Lavaca_County,_Texas.html   (271 words)

  
 ATSDR - PHA - Alcoa/Lavaca Bay, Calhoun County, Texas (Part 2)
The TNRCC (and its predecessor, the Texas Water Commission), the EPA and their contractors, and ALCOA have collected fish samples as well as sediment samples in the bay [37].
Additionally, since 41.6 percent of women in the county are of childbearing age, a sizeable part of the total county population consists of the sensitive subpopulation of concern.
In 1978 and 1979 the Texas Department of Health attempted to obtain information on blood mercury concentrations of area residents; however, these results have limited relevance and are difficult to interpret since information was not provided about occupation, fish consumption patterns, or how participants were selected.
www.atsdr.cdc.gov /HAC/PHA/alcoa/alc_p2.html   (6204 words)

  
 News on Lavaca County, Texas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Lavaca County Judge Ronnie Leck said that Hallettsville has a "very strong sense of community, very strong sense of country, very patriotic people willing to...
A short time later, the Lavaca County Sheriff's Office contacted her to report the person was at Hoffer's Drive-In on West Fourth Street.
She came to Texas in 1850, settling in Lavaca County, and had lived at Yoakum until 1925, when she located at Bloomington, where a number of her children reside...
www.linkmorgue.org /us/TX/Lavaca_County.html   (480 words)

  
 Lavaca County, Texas 1900 Team Census Transcription
All that part of precinct outside of Hallettsville town west of the Lavaca river and north of the S.A.&.A.P.R.R. Justice Pct.
All that part of precinct lying east of Clarks creek and Brushy creek and the Lavaca river.
All that part of precinct lying west of the Old Sweet Home and Flatonia road north to the Lavaca river and southwest of the Lavaca river to the county line.
www.us-census.org /states/texas/teams/Lavaca1900.htm   (361 words)

  
 Hackberry, Texas.
Texas : Ghost Towns / Central Texas South : Hackberry
According to Hallettsville Historian Doug Kubicek, in one case a brother-sister made the journey from Germany to Galveston and Hackberry, without speaking English, with only their destination pinned to their clothing.
Less than 15 miles south of I-10 from Schulenburg, FM 532 is a beautiful Sunday drive from nearby Weimar, Hallettsville, Shiner, Moulton and Flatonia.
www.texasescapes.com /TOWNS/Hackberry/Hackberry_Texas.htm   (355 words)

  
 Texas: Counties: Lavaca, American Lavaca   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Butterflies of Lavaca County, Texas Information about and pictures of all the known species of butterflies in the county.
Lavaca County QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau Population, demographic, and housing information from the 1990 census.
Lavaca County, Texas Includes local news, business directory, church directory, area information, chat room, events calendar, and local weather.
texas.mousemagnet.com /lavaca.php   (112 words)

  
 Tale of Two Families--A Large Family in Moravia, Lavaca County, Texas, and Need for More Land
It was only though his skills with wagons and oxen that he escaped military service by serving as a teamster who hauled Texas cotton across the border at Brownsville, Texas, when the Texas ports were blockaded by the Yankee forces.
rossing Texas with drays loaded with bales of cotton and pulled by teams of oxen was a dirty and tedious job for inevitably the way was either dry and dusty or wet and muddy.
I have walked and traveled this county since I was a child and have studied the faces of those who appear in this story in old photographs of them.
www.angelfire.com /tx5/texasczech/Stories/TaleThree.htm   (2966 words)

  
 Directory - Regional: North America: United States: Texas: Counties: Lavaca   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Lavaca County, Texas  · cached · Includes local news, business directory, church directory, area information, chat room, events calendar, and local weather.
Amphibians and Reptiles in Lavaca County  · cached · Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collection list of species found in the county.
Butterflies of Lavaca County, Texas  · cached · Information about and pictures of all the known species of butterflies in the county.
www.incywincy.com /default?p=66504   (92 words)

  
 Debt and Loans Lavaca County Texas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Texas County is the name of several counties in the United States: Texas County, Missouri Texas County, Oklahoma
Lavaca County, Texas Debt Consolidation -   Debt Consolidation in Lavaca County, TX Debt relief is available for residents of Texas!
Lavaca County, Texas Mortgage Refinancing -   Refinance Rates in Lavaca County, TX Receive up to 4 competing mortgage offers from lenders in Texas.
www.aparalegal.org /Lavaca-County-Texas.html   (492 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online: WEST, GEORGE WASHINGTON
In 1854 Washington West moved his family to Lavaca County, Texas, and their home became an important stagecoach stop, which developed into the community of Sweet Home.
Although he was the youngest man with the herd, he was the trail boss, and this drive, from Lavaca County, Texas, to the destination, just 100 miles south of the Canadian border, probably qualifies as the longest trail drive on record.
another Live Oak County son, records that cowboys employed by West were instructed to chop off the left horn of every dead steer and bring it to a pile at the ranch headquarters.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/print/WW/fwe62.html   (604 words)

  
 BWO - States - Texas
"The Belgian Texans, The Texians and the Texans." The University of Texas Institue of Texan Cultures at San Antonio, 1994.
"Founders and Patriots of the Republic of Texas." Daughters of the Republic of Texas.
Biesele, a noted historian and professor at the University of Texas, wrote this account of the founding and history of many German settlements and towns in Texas prior to the American Civil War.
www.rootsweb.com /~bwo/texas.html   (5888 words)

  
 DeWitt Colony Research Links
Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library--Site for the library at the Alamo
Texas Cowboy--Mystic and poetry of the Texas cowboy
Texas Navies--Information on the navies of Texas prior to statehood
www.tamu.edu /ccbn/dewitt/links.htm   (412 words)

  
 Listings Texas: Lavaca County: Society
Lavaca County was formed in 1842 as La Baca County from portions of Fayette, Colorado, Jackson,...
Hallettsville, the county seat of Lavaca County, is on the Lavaca River at the intersection of U.S. Highway 77 and alternate U.S. Highway 90A,...
Ezzell is on Farm Road 531 ten miles south of Hallettsville and two miles north of the Lavaca River in southern Lavaca County.
listingstexas.com /Prairie-Lakes-Region/Lavaca-County/Society#religion   (315 words)

  
 Lavaca Calhoun County, Texas
Ships with cargo and passenger ships began to arrive at the Port of Lavaca in the late 1830s to the 1840s and somewhere around that time the Port of Lavaca was shortened to Port Lavaca.
Then a gale struck Port Lavaca in 1851 that carried away a major portion of the wharves and blew down warehouses.
During the civil war, Port Lavaca was shelled by Union war ships but Confederate soldiers fired back with large guns and kept the Union ships at bay.
www.rootsweb.com /~txcalhou/LAVACA.html   (568 words)

  
 News articles for Lavaca County, Texas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
On Wednesday, Sutton filed as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Lavaca County Justice of the Peace Precinct 1.
Texas: N and W of San Antonio (split from 210)
Texas: Valley of Texas area; Harlingen, Laredo (split from 210)
www.us-news-watch.com /Texas/Lavaca_County.html   (344 words)

  
 The Story of the Founding of Dubina, Fayette County, Texas
When they returned they could not find enough words in praise of Fayette county, they said it was a fertile and beautiful country and had already leased for themselves some lands.
As the first settlement in Texas to be founded by Czech Moravians, Dubina remains an important part of the state's regional and cultural history.
The group of Czechs who found shelter from the elements under a gigantic oak tree in November, 1856 were the first in Texas who started their own town.
www.angelfire.com /tx5/texasczech/Studies/Dubina.htm   (1951 words)

  
 Lavaca County, Texas Current Post Office Information Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
County established 4/6/1846, organized 7/13/1846, previously La Baca Judicial District in In 1842 the Republic of Texas Congress established a judicial county from portions of Fayette, Colorado, Jackson, Victoria, and Gonzales counties and named it La Baca County.
4/6/1846 the area was renamed La Vaca "The Cow" County, and it became a regularly constituted county 7/13/1846.
La Vaca County eventually adopted the spelling Lavaca, and Hidesville eventually became Hallettsville.
tx4.us /cy/lavaca.htm   (268 words)

  
 Digital Lavaca County Map, Maps of Lavaca County County, Texas.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Lavaca County Map, Maps of Lavaca County and all Texas County Maps.
Every county map is available, but we may not yet have your county of interest completed.
Individual County Overview™ vector graphics are priced by population, with prices ranging from $275 to $425 per county.
www.creativeforceinc.com /county_maps/county_maps.asp?ID=1612   (229 words)

  
 Real Estate Appraisers in Lavaca, Texas, Usa | APPRAISERSdotCOM
While we have excellent coverage in most parts of the country, we still have some areas of rural America where we do not have listings, and Lavaca County is one of those counties.
If you are looking for an Appraiser, you may want to try to find an appraiser near you by checking our list of all real estate appraisers in Texas, or you can visit the State Map to check nearby counties.
Remember, we will list all appraisers in all counties, including Lavaca County, in the exact order that they are received, so don't wait, sign up now.
www.appraisers.com /usa/texas/lavaca   (309 words)

  
 The Political Graveyard: Lavaca County, Tex.
Assignment of birthplaces, deathplaces, and cemeteries to counties is subject to error.
The intent is to locate places according to current county names and boundaries.
Texas Republic Senate from District of Goliad, Refugio, and San Patricio, 1837-40.
www.politicalgraveyard.com /geo/TX/LV.html   (573 words)

  
 Open Directory - Regional: North America: United States: Texas: Counties: Lavaca   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Amphibians and Reptiles in Lavaca County - Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collection list of species found in the county.
Butterflies of Lavaca County, Texas - Information about and pictures of all the known species of butterflies in the county.
Lavaca County, Texas - Includes local news, business directory, church directory, area information, chat room, events calendar, and local weather.
dmoz.org /Regional/North_America/United_States/Texas/Counties/Lavaca   (131 words)

  
 Snake Tales | Masters of Camouflage: The Broad-banded Copperhead (Lavaca County, Texas)
The weeds were mostly dead from the pro-longed drought much of South Texas was experiencing, so I had a good view of the ground.
It rivals the Texas rat snake, in some locales of south central Texas, as the most abundant snake per square mile.
While living in Victoria, Texas in the late 1980’s, I caught a large female that looked gravid, only to have her pass the hard shells of cicadas on which she had feasted.
www.lavibora.com /Tales/CopperHeads-091902.html   (868 words)

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