Buchel County

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General map of Brewster, Buchel and Foley Counties 1895

Buchel County was a county in the US state of Texas that existed from 1887 to 1897. The area is now part of Brewster County .

history

By law of March 15, 1887, three new counties were separated from Presidio County : Buchel Counties, Foley Counties and Jeff Davis Counties . Shortly before, Brewster County had already been re-established from areas of Presidio County. The then Brewster County comprised the western part of today's Brewster County, Buchel County the northeast part with the city of Marathon , which was to become the seat of the county administration. The Buchel County was named after Augustus Karl Buchel , who came from Germany and a Texan war hero. It did not succeed in the following years to organize the sparsely populated Buchel County as a county, and on March 22, 1889 Brewster County was given the task of temporarily taking over the administrative tasks in Buchel County. According to the 1890 census, Buchel County had 298 residents, most of whom lived in Marathon, with the exception of eleven residents being white.

Since it was not possible to establish a county administration in the following years, the Texas Senate passed a law according to which the area of ​​Buchel County (as well as that of Foley County) should become part of Brewster County. This law was presented to the Texas Governor Charles Allen Culberson for signature on April 9, 1897 . He should have signed the bill or sent it back to the Senate within a constitutionally mandated period, but did not. Therefore, the law went into effect without his signature. With the dissolution of the Buchel and Foley Counties and their annexation to Brewster County, this became the largest county in the state of Texas in terms of area.

Remarks

  1. ^ Robert W. Stephens: Buchel, August Carl . In: Handbook of Texas. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
  2. ^ Martin Donell Kohout: Buchel County . In: Handbook of Texas. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.