Texas has 254 counties. How many county seats have you been to? How many county courthouses have you visited?

This one is hard to answer as my answer to having been in most any rural county seat will be "is it on the highway?"

350

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Jefferson county
Orange County
Harris County
Brazos County
Liberty County
Chambers County

All because I worked a few months with Texas Boll Weevil Eradication in Bryan my 5th year and had to deliver a notice to all of those counties

Jefferson
Harris
Travis
Williamson
Brazos

https://www.tsl.texas.gov/ref/abouttx/countyseats.html

https://your-vector-maps.com/zoom/US-TX-county-seats-fips-jpg/

115 for me:

Sierra Blanca
Andrews
Lufkin
Bellville
Muleshoe
Bandera
Bastrop
Beeville
Belton
San Antonio
Johnson City
Angleton
Bryan
Alpine
Brownwood
Caldwell
Burnet
Lockhart
Dimmitt
Robert Lee
Coleman
McKinney
Columbus
New Braunfels
Comanche
Gainesville
Crane
Ozona
Van Horn
Dalhart
Dallas
Lamesa
Denton
Cuero
Eastland
Odessa
Rocksprings
El Paso
Waxahachie
Stephenville
Marlin
La Grange
Roby
Richmond
Seminole
Galveston
Post
Fredericksburg
Garden City
Longview
Plainview
Hamilton
Quanah
Houston
San Marcos
Levelland
Granbury
Big Spring
Edna
Fort Davis
Beaumont
Kerrville
Junction
Lampasas
Llano
Lubbock
Tahoka
Madisonville
Mason
Bay City
Brady
Waco
Menard
Midland
Cameron
Goldthwaite
Colorado City
Conroe
Dumas
Corsicana
Sweetwater
Orange
Weatherford
Fort Stockton
Livingston
Amarillo
Big Lake
Leakey
Ballinger
San Saba
Snyder
Albany
Glen Rose
Sterling City
Sonora
Fort Worth
Abilene
Sanderson
Brownfield
San Angelo
Austin
Rankin
Uvalde
Del Rio
Victoria
Huntsville
Hempstead
Monahans
Brenham
Wharton
Wichita Falls
Georgetown
Kermit
Plains
Graham

Not sure how many county seats I've been to, but I'm going to count later and will do so in the most Texan of ways!

Northeast Mall and Hulen Mall, but they are closed now.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Seat_(store)

Been to 141 of 254 Texas county seats.

Palestine
Lufkin
Claude
Bellville
Muleshoe
Bastrop
Seymour
Beeville
San Antonio
Johnson City
Meridian
Boston
Bryan
Brownwood
Caldwell
Lockhart
Baird
Brownsville
Linden
Anahuac
Rusk
Childress
Henrietta
McKinney
Columbus
New Braunfels
Gainesville
Ozona
Van Horn
Dalhart
Dallas
Lamesa
Denton
Dickens
Clarendon
Eastland
El Paso
Waxahachie
Stephenville
Marlin
La Grange
Richmond
Fairfield
Galveston
Post
Fredericksburg
Goliad
Sherman
Longview
Anderson
Seguin
Plainview
Memphis
Hamilton
Quanah
Kountze
Houston
Marshall
San Marcos
Edinburg
Hillsboro
Granbury
Crockett
Big Spring
Sierra Blanca
Edna
Jasper
Beaumont
Cleburne
Boerne
Sarita
Kerrville
Junction
Guthrie
Kingsville
Littlefield
Giddings
Centerville
Liberty
Groesbeck
Mentone
Lubbock
Tahoka
Madisonville
Jefferson
Mason
Brady
Waco
Cameron
Goldthwaite
Conroe
Dumas
Daingerfield
Nacogdoches
Corsicana
Newton
Sweetwater
Corpus Christi
Vega
Orange
Carthage
Weatherford
Farwell
Fort Stockton
Livingston
Amarillo
Canyon
Pecos
Refugio
Franklin
Rockwall
Henderson
Hemphill
San Augustine
Coldspring
Sinton
San Saba
Snyder
Center
Tyler
Sterling City
Sonora
Tulia
Fort Worth
Abilene
Brownfield
Mount Pleasant
Austin
Woodville
Gilmer
Victoria
Huntsville
Hempstead
Brenham
Wharton
Wichita Falls
Vernon
Raymondville
Decatur
Quitman
Plains

90 for me

I don't know for sure since I didn't always pay attention to this, but taking a quick scroll down the list, I see somewhere between 40-50 towns. Maybe 20 courthouses. A few for real reasons, most just to see the memorials and historical markers while walking around the town squares.

Doubt I'll ever make all 254, but there's an interesting website: http://www.254texascourthouses.net/

somewhere around 75 I think

Interesting tidbit:

No one has listed the county seat of Montague County. Despite its being a short drive from Dallas and Fort Worth with at least two national highways running through the county (287 and 82). It is only 90 minutes from DFW airport. This county seat has no stoplights and no place to buy fuel or milk. And….only about 30 minutes from what may or may not be the world's largest casino.

My mom and dad used to have a condo in Crested Butte, CO, and I grew up in Beaumont. I've driven up and down 287 (and gone through Bowie) any number of times. Montague isn't on the highway though.

I-10 W to E:
El Paso
Sierra Blanca
Van Horn
Ft Stockton
Ozona
Sonora
Junction
Kerrville
Boerne
San Antonio
Seguin
Columbus
Houston
Beaumont
Orange

I-20 W to E:
Pecos
Monahans
Odessa
Midland
Stanton
Big Spring
Colorado City
Sweetwater
Abilene
Baird
Eastland
Weatherford
Ft Worth
Dallas
Marshall

I-30 W to E:
Ft Worth
Dallas
Rockwall
Greenville
Sulphur Springs
Mt Vernon
Mt Pleasant
Boston

I-40 W to E:
Vega
Amarillo

I-27 N to S:
Amarillo
Canyon
Tulia
Plainview
Lubbock

I-35 N to S:
Gainesville
Denton
Ft Worth
Dallas
Cleburne
Waxahachie
Hillsboro
Waco
Belton
Georgetown
Austin
San Marcos
New Braunfels
San Antonio
Pearsall
Cotulla
Laredo

Hwy-75/I-45 N to S:
Sherman
McKinney
Dallas
Corsicana
Fairfield
Centerville
Madisonville
Huntsville
Conroe
Houston
Galveston

Hwy-59/I-69 N to S:
Linden
Jefferson
Marshall
Carthage
Nacogdoches
Lufkin
Livingston
Houston
Richmond
Wharton
Edna
Victoria
Goliad
Beeville
George West
Laredo

I-37 N to S:
San Antonio
Corpus Christi

Hwy-6 N to S:
Quanah
Crowell
Benjamin
Albany
Eastland
Meridian
Waco
Marlin
Bryan
Hempstead
Houston

nm

That was meant to be a reference sheet…

How many of the courthouses have you been to tho? I don't mean "I drove past it at 75 MPH" either. How many county court houses have you stepped on the grass of?

For me, it's 32.

Oooh....this question is for me.

I used to work almost exclusively in Texas county courthouses.I had a county map I'd color in for all the counties I'd visit and I'd photograph them as well. No idea where that map is, so I had to count by hand.

By my count, that's 29 county seats I've not visited. So I'm at 225. I've been in the courthouse of nearly 200 of them.

HarleySpoon said:

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Interesting tidbit:

No one has listed the county seat of Montague County. Despite its being a short drive from Dallas and Fort Worth with at least two national highways running through the county (287 and 82). It is only 90 minutes from DFW airport. This county seat has no stoplights and no place to buy fuel or milk. And….only about 30 minutes from what may or may not be the world's largest casino.

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Here's my picture of the Montague courthouse circa 2008

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