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History
BANDERA COUNTY. Bandera County (Q-14) is twenty-five miles northwest of San Antonio in the Edwards Plateau region of southwest Texas. It is bordered by Kerr County and Kendall County on the north, Bexar County on the east, Medina County and Uvalde County on the south, and Real County on the west. The county seat and largest town is Bandera, and the center of the county lies at 29 45' north latitude and 99 11' west longitude. The county is crossed by State highways 16, 46, and 173 and Farm roads 187, 337, 470, and 1283.
Bandera County comprises an area of 793 square miles, with elevations that range from 1,200 to 2,300 feet. The western part of the county is drained by the Sabinal River and the eastern part by the Medina River. The alkaline and generally shallow soils overlie limy subsoils. The vegetation consists primarily of grasses such as bluestems, grama, buffalo grass, winter grass, and wild ryes. Along the many streams of the county grow cedar, post oak, Spanish oak, live oak, pecan, and cypress trees. Deer and turkey are plentiful, but there are no large predators. Sheep, goat, cattle, and poultry raising are the chief occupations. Only 11 to 20 percent of the land in the county is considered prime farmland. Crops include corn, oats, hay, pecans, and some grain sorghums.
Despite the relative hardships, numerous new settlers arrived during the 1870s. In 1880 the population had grown to 2,158, and by 1890 the number of residents stood at 3,795. As before, the great majority of new settlers came from the South, though recent immigrants, especially Germans, formed an increasingly larger portion of the county's residents.
In the early 1980s Bandera County had two school districts, with two elementary, one middle, and two high schools. The average daily attendance in 1981-82 was 1,192, and expenditures per pupil were $2,381. Forty-seven percent of the 103 high school graduates planned to attend college.
In 1982, 82 percent of the land in the county was in farms and ranches, with 4 percent of the farmland under cultivation. Bandera County ranked 238th among Texas counties in agricultural receipts, with 95 percent coming from livestock and livestock products. The primary crops were oats, hay, wheat, and sorghum; pecans were also grown in sizable quantities. During the 1980s Baxter Adams, a former petroleum geologist, introduced commercial apple growing at his Love Creek Ranch, and subsequently the area around Medina became an important apple-growing region, with more than 30,000 bushels picked annually in the late 1980s.
Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 798 square miles (2,066 km²), of which, 792 square miles (2,051 km²) of it is land and 6 square miles (15 km²) of it (0.73%) is water.
Education
Bandera County is serviced by the following school districts:
Cities and Towns
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