Editing Uvalde County, Texas (section)

===County established and growth===
[[File:Uvalde County marker IMG 1878.JPG|200px|right|thumb|Uvalde County marker]]
[[File:Hill Country scene in Uvalde County, TX IMG 1875.JPG|200px|right|thumb|A scene of the [[Texas Hill Country]] in northern Uvalde County]]
[[File:TX Hwy 55 in Uvalde County IMG 1319.JPG|200px|right|thumb|[[Texas State Highway 55]] as it meanders through scenic northwestern Uvalde County near the [[Nueces River]]]]
In November 1855, Reading Wood Black successfully lobbied the [[Texas Legislature]] to organize Uvalde County.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Association |first=Texas State Historical |title=Black, Reading Wood |url=https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/black-reading-wood#:~:text=successfully%20lobbied%20the%20state%20legislature%20to%20organize%20Uvalde%20County |access-date=2025-01-08 |website=Texas State Historical Association |language=en}}</ref> On May 12, the county was formally organized.{{citation needed|date=May 2022}} On June 14, Encina was named county seat.{{citation needed|date=May 2022}} The second floor of the courthouse was made into a school, and six school districts were organized for the county in 1858. The San Antonio-El Paso Mail route was extended along the county's main road with a stop at Fort Inge in 1857.{{citation needed|date=May 2022}}

Conflict between [[Mexican people|Mexicans]] and [[Anglo]]s during and after the Mexican War continued in Uvalde County, with the reported lynching of eleven Mexicans near the [[Nueces River]] in 1855.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Association |first=Texas State Historical |title=Uvalde County |url=https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/uvalde-county#:~:text=County,%20with%20the-,reported%20lynching,-of%20eleven%20Mexicans |access-date=2025-01-08 |website=Texas State Historical Association |language=en}}</ref> Laws passed in 1857 prohibited Mexicans from traveling through the county.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Digital History |url=https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=556#:~:text=county,%20Texas,%20in-,September,%201857,-,%20passed%20several%20resolutions |access-date=2025-01-08 |website=www.digitalhistory.uh.edu}}</ref>

Residents of Uvalde County voted 76–16 against [[Texas in the American Civil War|secession]] from the [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]]. The abandonment of Fort Inge immediately after secession was followed by renewed Indian attacks. Many men in Uvalde County fought for the [[Confederate States of America|Confederacy]], while some Unionists fled to Mexico to avoid [[persecution]].<ref name="Uvalde Co Military">{{cite web|title=Uvalde Co Military|url=http://www.txgenweb2.org/txuvalde/military.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081123092138/http://www.txgenweb2.org/txuvalde/military.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 23, 2008|publisher=Uvalde Co TxGenWeb Project|access-date=June 4, 2010}}</ref>

Uvalde County endured three decades of unrelenting lawlessness after the [[American Civil War|Civil War]]. Violence, lawlessness and Confederate-Union conflicts among citizens were so pervasive that armed guards were employed to assist the county tax assessor and collector, and the county had no [[sheriff]] for nearly two years. The years immediately following the Civil War were marked by conflicts between Confederates and Unionists returning to live in Uvalde County. Smugglers, [[cattle rustler]]s and [[horse rustler]]s, and numerous other desperadoes saturated the area, including notorious cattle rustler, [[King Fisher|J. King Fisher]] who was appointed Uvalde sheriff in 1881.<ref name="J King Fisher">{{Handbook of Texas | name=J King Fisher | id=ffi20| author=Adams, Paul | retrieved=4 June 2010}} Texas State Historical Association</ref> Willis Newton of The [[Newton Gang]] robbed his first train near Uvalde. Jess and Joe Newton retired to Uvalde.<ref name="The Newton Boys">{{Handbook of Texas | name=The Newton Boys | id=jen01| author=Holm, Patricia | retrieved=June 4, 2010}} Texas State Historical Association</ref>

The Uvalde ''Umpire'' began publication in 1878 and the ''Hesparian'' in 1879.{{citation needed|date=May 2022}}

The Galveston, Harrisburg, and San Antonio Railway was built through the county, passing through Sabinal and Uvalde City, in 1881.{{citation needed|date=May 2022}}

William M. Landrum introduced [[Angora goat]]s to the area in the 1880s. By the turn of the century, goats outnumbered cattle.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Association |first=Texas State Historical |title=Goat Ranching |url=https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/goat-ranching#:~:text=This%20trend%20was%20accentuated%20in%201884%20when%20William%20M.%20Landrum,%20a%20leading%20Angora%20raiser%20in%20California,%20moved%20his%20herd%20of%20thoroughbred%20goats%20to%20Uvalde%20County. |access-date=2025-01-08 |website=Texas State Historical Association |language=en}}</ref>

Old West lawman [[Pat Garrett]] lived in the county from 1891 to 1900.<ref name="Pat Garrett Historical Marker">{{Cite web | title=Pat Garrett Historical Marker | publisher=Texas Historical Markers | url=http://www.9key.com/markers/marker_detail.asp?atlas_number=5463003953 | access-date=April 30, 2010 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314204616/http://www.9key.com/markers/marker_detail.asp?atlas_number=5463003953 | archive-date=March 14, 2012 }}</ref>

By 1905 the Southern Pacific Railroad had established railheads in Uvalde, Knippa, and Sabinal.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Association |first=Texas State Historical |title=Uvalde County |url=https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/uvalde-county#:~:text=By%201905%20the%20Southern%20Pacific%20had%20established%20railheads%20in%20Uvalde,%20Knippa,%20and%20Sabinal |access-date=2025-01-08 |website=Texas State Historical Association |language=en}}</ref>

The local bee industry developed a product that received first place in the 1900 [[Paris]] World's Fair.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Welcome to the City of Uvalde |url=https://www.uvaldetx.gov/main_street/uvalde_honey_festival.php#:~:text=Legend%20has%20it,%20that%20during%20the%201905%20World%E2%80%99s%20Fair,%20Uvalde%20was%20honored%20as%20the%20Honey%20Capital%20of%20the%20World. |access-date=2025-01-08 |website=www.uvaldetx.gov |language=en}}</ref>

[[Garner State Park]] built by the [[Civilian Conservation Corps]] and opened in 1941. [[Garner Field|Garner Army Air Field]] the same year.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Association |first=Texas State Historical |title=Garner Army Air Field |url=https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/garner-army-air-field |access-date=2025-01-08 |website=Texas State Historical Association |language=en}}</ref>

The [[National Fish Hatchery System|National Fish Hatchery]], completed in 1937, produced a million [[catfish]], [[largemouth bass]] and [[Centrarchidae|sunfish]] in the 1970s.{{citation needed|date=May 2022}}

Approximately [[United States dollar|$]]45 million was generated by farming in Uvalde County in 1974.{{citation needed|date=May 2022}}

In January 1989 Uvalde County withdrew from the [[Edwards Aquifer|Edwards Underground Water District]].{{citation needed|date=May 2022}}

In 1990 Uvalde County had a population of 23,340, with 60% identified as Hispanic.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Association |first=Texas State Historical |title=Uvalde County |url=https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/uvalde-county#:~:text=In%201990%20Uvalde%20County%20had%20a%20population%20of%2023,340,%20with%2060%20percent%20identified%20as%20Hispanic. |access-date=2025-01-08 |website=Texas State Historical Association |language=en}}</ref>