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Location in the state of Texas, United States Genealogy. Location of Texas in the U. Adopt-a-wiki page. This page adopted by: Hidden Ancestors who welcome you to contribute. Adopt a page today. General compliance by the s. Family History Library. Tombstone Project. BillionGraves name. Cemeteries of TX. GenWeb Archives. Texas Cemeteries. TX Gravestones. Names in Stone. FamilySearch Places. See Texas Cemeteries for more information. Source: "Wikipedia. Reflecting these trends, the population of the county rose to 2, by and to 11, by During this period crop cultivation became central to the economy of the area.
The number of farms increased to by and to 1, by By over two-thirds of the land was being used for agriculture and While about 16, cattle and 7, sheep were reported in , 33, acres were planted in cotton that year, and 21, acres were devoted to sorghum. Cotton was by far the most important crop, accounting for almost 72 percent of the county's income derived from cultivation. Many of the new farmers were tenants: sharecropping increased from Except for a brief recession after World War I , these trends continued between and , as cotton cultivation continued to expand in the area, particularly during the s.
Though cattle and sheep ranching continued to be important to the local economy, the relative significance of ranching in the area continued to decline. By , 80, acres in the county were planted in cotton.
The number of farms rose from 1, in to 1, by and to 1, by ; meanwhile, the population increased from 10, in to 19, by The area's cotton economy was severely shaken during the Great Depression of the s. The number of acres devoted to cotton plunged to 58, by and to 39, by Almost a third of the farmers left their land during the s, and by only farms remained in Nolan County. Tenant farmers fared the worst, particularly after ; the number of tenants in the area dropped from in to by and to by The population dropped to 17, by While World War II helped to revive the local agricultural economy during the s, by the s farm consolidations, the decline of farm tenancy , and an extended drought caused a drop in population from 19, in to 18, in and 16, by Though cotton production remained strong and expanded substantially during the s, by the number of farms in the area had declined to The population rose slightly during the s to reach 17, by but began to decline again during the s; in it stood at 16, Much of the economic progress in the county since the s has been due to the oil and gas industry.
Petroleum was discovered in , but production was minimal at first: in only 3, barrels of crude oil were produced in the county. However, production of crude oil reached 8,, barrels in , 5,, barrels in , 4,, barrels in , 2,, barrels in , and 2,, barrels in In , 1,, barrels of oil were produced, and by January 1, , ,, barrels of crude had been taken from county lands since discovery in Nolan County's citizens strongly supported Democratic tickets in national elections until the early s, when Democratic strength in the county began to decline.
The Democratic party carried 86 percent of the votes in the presidential election, but only 55 percent in Lyndon B. Sweetwater Hotels More Hotels. The first settlers were buffalo hunters such as I. Tuck Focht, who later became a rancher and businessman, and cattlemen such as confederate veteran John R. Created in , Nolan County was one of 54 countries carved from Bexar Territory. It was named for Philip Nolan , an Irish-born adventurer who came to Texas to capture wild horses and was killed in a skirmish with Spanish soldiers.
Sweetwater, a small settlement that had grown up around a general store, was awarded the county's first post office in March It was also named the county seat when Nolan County was organized in January
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