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Parmer County
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county in Texas, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Texas
- Named after
- Martin Parmer
- Seat
- Farwell
- Largest city
- Friona
- Total
- 885 sq mi (2,290 km )
- Land
- 881 sq mi (2,280 km )
- Water
- 4.4 sq mi (11 km ) 0.5%
- Estimate 2025
- 9,678
- Density
- 11/sq mi (4.2/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 19th
- Website
- parmercounty .texas .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Texas
- Contains
- Farwell
- Capital
- Farwell
- Population
- 9869
- Area
- 2293
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Curry County
- Official website
- parmercounty.texas.gov
- Image
- Courthouse for Parmer Country, in Farwell, Texas.JPG
- Households
- 3213
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- water as percent of area
- 0.5
- Commons category
- Parmer County, Texas
- native label
- Parmer County
- inception
- 1876-01-01
- topic's main category
- Category:Parmer County, Texas
- per capita income
- 26269
Sources (9)
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Encyclopedic overview
Parmer County is a county located in the southwestern Texas Panhandle on the High Plains of the Llano Estacado in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 9,869. The county seat is Farwell. The county was created in 1876 and later organized in 1907. It is named in honor of Martin Parmer, a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence and early judge. Parmer County was one of 10 prohibition, or entirely dry, counties in the state of Texas, but is now a wet county.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Parmer County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.