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Deaf Smith County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 19,372.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/48/48117.html )〕 The county seat is Hereford,〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 which is known as the "Beef Capital of the World". The county was created in 1876 and later organized in 1890. The Hereford, TX Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Deaf Smith County. ==History== In 1876 the state legislature identified and named the county, but it was not organized until 1890, with the town of LaPlata as the original county seat. The county was named for Erastus "Deaf" Smith (1787–1837), a partially deaf scout and soldier who served in the Texas Revolution and was the first to reach the Alamo after its fall. The pronunciation of "Deaf", like that of Smith himself, is ; however most residents pronounce it . This county was also selected as an alternate site for a possible nuclear waste disposal repository but was later dropped. Jesse Frank Ford, founder of Arrowhead Mills, led the opposition to the Deaf Smith site on grounds of contamination of the Ogallala Aquifer, the source of much of the water supply for West Texas. Image:Deaf Smith in museum in Hereford IMG 4856.JPG|Erastus "Deaf" Smith as he appears at the Deaf Smith County Museum Image:Deaf Smith County Museum IMG 4854.JPG|The Deaf Smith County Historical Museum in Hereford Image:Deaf Smith County Library, Hereford, TX IMG 4892.JPG|The Deaf Smith County Library formerly housed the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame on the ground floor. The museum is now located in a new building in the Historic District of Fort Worth, Texas. 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「Deaf Smith County, Texas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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