Culberson County (Tex.)
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Name (Latin)
Culberson County (Tex.)
Other forms of name
nnaa Culberson Co., Tex
Coordinates
-104.52 -104.52 31.45 31.45 (gooearth )
W1043502 W1043502 N0312700 N0312700 (geonames )
Associated country
United States
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Sources of Information
- GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009(adm2; 31°27ʹ00ʺN 104°35ʹ02ʺW)
- Culberson County is located in the Trans-Pecos region of West Texas. It is bordered by New Mexico to the north and by Hudspeth, Reeves, and Jeff Davis counties in Texas; county's center lies about thirty-six miles northeast of Van Horn at approximately 32°27ʹ north latitude and 104°29ʹ west longitude; in 1911 a new county, named after David B. Culberson, was separated from El Paso County ( (Handbook of Texas, via Texas State Historical Association website, viewed August 8, 2019) )
- Flawn, P.T. The Hazel copper-silver mine, 1952.
Wikipedia description:
Culberson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 2,188. The county seat is Van Horn. Culberson County was founded in 1911 and organized the next year. It is named for David B. Culberson, a Confederate soldier and U.S. representative. Culberson County is primarily in the Central Time Zone, but northwestern Culberson County, including Pine Springs and Guadalupe Mountains National Park, is in the Mountain Time Zone, making it one of only a few U.S. counties officially split into two time zones. It is one of the nine counties that comprise the Trans-Pecos region of West Texas.
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