Scurry County, Texas

Scurry County, Texas
Scurry County Courthouse in Snyder
Location in the U.S. state of Texas
Texas's location in the U.S.
Founded	1884
Named for	William Read Scurry
Seat	Snyder
Largest city	Snyder
Area
• Total	908 sq mi (2,352 km2)
• Land	905 sq mi (2,344 km2)
• Water	2.1 sq mi (5 km2), 0.2%
Population
• (2010)	16,921
• Density	19/sq mi (7/km²)
Congressional district	19th
Time zone	Central: UTC-6/-5
Website	www.co.scurry.tx.us

Scurry County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, its population was 16,921. Its county seat is Snyder, which is the educational home for Western Texas College. The county was created in 1876 and organized in 1884. Scurry County was one of forty-six prohibition, or entirely dry, counties in the state of Texas, until a 2006 election approved the sale of beer and wine in Snyder, and a 2008 election approved the sale of liquor by the drink throughout the county.

Scurry County comprises the Snyder, TX Micropolitan Statistical Area.

"This county, lying directly north of Mitchell County, was created in 1876, and was organized June 28, 1884. It was named for William Read Scurry, lawyer and Confederate Army general. Until 1909 it was without railroad facilities, and the nearest shipping points were Colorado City on the south and still later the railroad towns in Fisher County on the east.

The first railroad was the Roscoe, Snyder and Pacific Railway, built from Roscoe on the Texas & Pacific in Nolan County, to Snyder, the county seat of Scurry County, about 1909, and subsequently extended to Fluvanna, also in Scurry County. In 1911, the Texico-Coleman division of the Santa Fe system was built through the county, giving it a trunk line of railway. Development has been particularly rapid during the early 1900s.