Crosby County, Texas Facts for Kids

Quick facts for kids Crosby County
U.S. county
Crosby County Courthouse in Crosbyton
Location within the U.S. state of Texas
Texas's location within the U.S.
Country	United States
State	Texas
Founded	1886
Named for	Stephen Crosby
Seat	Crosbyton
Largest city	Crosbyton
Area
• Total	902 sq mi (2,340 km²)
• Land	900 sq mi (2,000 km²)
• Water	1.5 sq mi (4 km²) 0.2%%
Population (2020)
• Total	5,133
• Density	5.7/sq mi (2.2/km²)
Time zone	UTC−6 (Central)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−5 (CDT)
Congressional district	19th

Crosby County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 5,133. The county seat is Crosbyton. The county was founded in 1876 and later organized in 1886. Both the county and its seat are named for Stephen Crosby, a land commissioner in Texas.

Crosby County, along with Lubbock and Lynn Counties, is part of the Lubbock Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). The Lubbock MSA and Levelland Micropolitan Statistical Area (µSA), encompassing only Hockley County, form the larger Lubbock–Levelland Combined Statistical Area.

Until the passage of a referendum to permit liquor sales, held on May 11, 2013, Crosby County had been one of 19 remaining prohibition or entirely dry counties within Texas. That same day, voters in Denver City and Yoakum County also approved separate referenda to permit liquor sales. The number of prohibition counties in Texas at that time hence dropped to 17. Part of the large Matador Ranch of West Texas extends into the county. Republican Drew Springer Jr., a businessman from Muenster in Cooke County, has since January 2013 represented Crosby County in the Texas House of Representatives.

History
Geography
Demographics
- 2020 census
Communities
Gallery
See also

History

11000 b.c. Paleo-Indians first inhabitants. Archeological artifacts indicate Hunter-gatherers who hunted the Mammoth, Mastodon, Saber-Toothed Tiger, and Giant Ground Sloth. Later Native American inhabitants include the Comanche.
1871 Ranald S. Mackenzie fights Quanah Parker and other Comanches at the Battle of Blanco Canyon. The campaign establishes the Mackenzie Trail used by the first settlers in Crosby County in the late 1870s.
1876 The Texas legislature forms Crosby County from Young and Bexar districts.
1878 Bavaria-born Heinrich Schmidtt, aka Henry “Hank” Clay Smith, and his wife Elizabeth Boyle and their six children, become the first permanent settlers in the area, where Hank is active in the county’s organization.
1879 Confederate veteran Paris Cox first visits the Caprock Escarpment of the Llano Estacado with a group of buffalo hunters.
1886 Estacado is named the county seat.
1900 The beef industry thrives, supporting a count of 30,618 head.
1908 The Bar-N-Bar Ranch begins selling acreage to farmers.
1910 Crosbyton becomes the new county seat.
1920 Some 45,400 acres (184 km²) in the county are planted in cotton. 15.000 apple and peach trees grow in the county.
1929 Farmers own 83,000 chickens, and sell 395,000 dozen eggs.
1941 The first soil-conservation district in the county is formed.
1955 Oil is discovered in the county.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 902 square miles (2,340 km²), of which 900 square miles (2,300 km²) is land and 1.5 square miles (3.9 km²) (0.2%) is water.

Major highways

U.S. Highway 62
U.S. Highway 82/State Highway 114
State Highway 207

Adjacent counties

Floyd County (north)
Dickens County (east)
Garza County (south)
Lubbock County (west)

Geographic features

Demographics

Historical population
Census	Pop.	%±
1880	82	—
1890	346	322.0%
1900	788	127.7%
1910	1,765	124.0%
1920	6,084	244.7%
1930	11,023	81.2%
1940	10,046	−8.9%
1950	9,582	−4.6%
1960	10,347	8.0%
1970	9,085	−12.2%
1980	8,859	−2.5%
1990	7,304	−17.6%
2000	7,072	−3.2%
2010	6,059	−14.3%
2020	5,133	−15.3%
U.S. Decennial Census 1850–2010 2010 2020

2020 census

**Crosby County, Texas - Demographic Profile**
(*NH = Non-Hispanic*)
Race / Ethnicity	Pop 2010	Pop 2020	% 2010	% 2020
White alone (NH)	2,625	2,076	43.32%	40.44%
Black or African American alone (NH)	199	117	3.28%	2.28%
Native American or Alaska Native alone (NH)	13	8	0.21%	0.16%
Asian alone (NH)	4	12	0.07%	0.23%
Pacific Islander alone (NH)	2	0	0.03%	0.00%
Some Other Race alone (NH)	8	6	0.13%	0.12%
Mixed Race/Multi-Racial (NH)	37	85	0.61%	1.66%
Hispanic or Latino (any race)	3,171	2,829	52.34%	55.11%
Total	6,059	5,133	100.00%	100.00%

Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos can be of any race.