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Brewster County
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county in Texas, United States
Brewster County is a large county located in West Texas, known for its vast desert landscape and sparse population. It matters as part of Texas's geography and serves as home to Big Bend National Park, one of the nation's premier natural destinations.
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Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Henry Percy Brewster
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Texas
- Contains
- Alpine
- Capital
- Alpine
- Population
- 9546
- Area
- 16039
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Ocampo Municipality
- Highest point
- Emory Peak
- Official website
- www.brewstercounty.gov
- Image
- Brewster County Courthouse - Alpine, TX.JPG
- Households
- 4292
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- Commons category
- Brewster County, Texas
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Brewster County, Texas
- topic's main category
- Category:Brewster County, Texas
- inception
- 1887-00-00
- water as percent of area
- 0.1
- native label
- Brewster County
- per capita income
- 29696
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Encyclopedic overview
Brewster County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. It is in West Texas and its county seat (and only city) is Alpine. It is one of the nine counties that comprise the Trans-Pecos region, and borders Mexico. Brewster County is the largest county by area in the state - at 6,192 square miles (16,040 km) it is over three times the size of the state of Delaware, and more than 500 square miles (1,300 km) bigger than Connecticut.
As of the 2020 census, the population was 9,546.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Brewster County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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