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Palo Pinto County

Palo Pinto County, Texas
Palo pinto courthouse.jpg
The Palo Pinto County courthouse in Palo Pinto. The Streamline Moderne style structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.
Map of Texas highlighting Palo Pinto County
Location in the U.S. state of Texas
Map of the United States highlighting Texas
Texas's location in the U.S.
Founded 1857
Named for Palo Pinto Creek
Seat Palo Pinto
Largest city Mineral Wells
Area
 • Total 986 sq mi (2,554 km2)
 • Land 952 sq mi (2,466 km2)
 • Water 34 sq mi (88 km2), 3.4%
Population
 • (2010) 28,111
 • Density 30/sq mi (12/km²)
Congressional district 11th
Time zone Central: UTC-6/-5
Website www.co.palo-pinto.tx.us

Palo Pinto County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, its population was 28,111. The county seat is Palo Pinto. The county was created in 1856 and organized the following year.

Palo Pinto County comprises the Mineral Wells, TX Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is part of the DallasFort Worth, TX Combined Statistical Area. It is located in the Western Cross Timbers Ecoregion.

The Brazos Indian Reservation, founded by General Randolph B. Marcy in 1854, provided a safety area from warring Comanche for Delaware, Shawnee, Tonkawa, Wichita, and Caddo. Within the reservation, each tribe had its own village and cultivated agricultural crops. Government-contracted beeves were delivered each week. Citizens were unable to distinguish between reservation and non-reservation tribes, blaming Comanche and Kiowa depredations on the reservation Indians. A newspaper in Jacksboro, Texas titled The White Man advocated removal of all tribes from north Texas.

During December 1858, Choctaw Tom, at times an interpreter to Sam Houston, and a group of reservation Indians received permission for an off-the-reservation hunt. On December 27, Captain Peter Garland and a vigilante group charged Choctaw Tom’s camp, indiscriminately murdering and injuring women and children along with the men. Citizens feared retribution from reservations tribes.


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