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Crosby County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, its population was 6,059.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/48/48107.html )〕 The county seat is Crosbyton.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 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 County, and Lynn County, 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 (CSA). Until the passage of a referendum to permit liquor sales, held on May 11, 2013, Crosby County had been one of nineteen remaining prohibition or entirely dry counties within Texas.〔http://www.tabc.state.tx.us/local_option_elections/index.asp〕 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 has hence dropped to seventeen.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Voters approve sales of alcohol in three elections )〕 Part of the large Matador Ranch of West Texas extends into the county.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Alyssa Dizon, "Cattle raisers honor Matador Ranch with rangeland management award" )〕 Republican Drew Springer, Jr., a businessman from Muenster in Cooke County, has since January 2013 represented Crosby County in the Texas House of Representatives.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=State Rep. Springer announces district tour July 30 )〕 ==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 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.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Crosby County, Texas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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