Background. The United States of America has 50 states and 3481 counties (Louisiana uses parishes and Alaska uses boroughs, but they are the same thing as counties). Texas has by far the most counties with 254 listed counties. In a distant second place is Georgia with 159. This number goes all the way to 3 counties in Delaware.
However, Texas has so many counties that it is hard to keep track of them all. The website www.officialusa.com had Texas listed with only 253 counties.
And now, I am finding additional counties that seem to have been omitted from the list. So, if you have completed the Texas County Challenge (GCRX6F), you may want to try to find these ‘bonus’ counties. Some of them are hard to locate on a map, so I am adding a geocache for each of these omitted counties. Please note that these are not part of a list of 32 Texas counties that are now defunct. (That could be a cache series for someone else to publish).
Introduction. Texas city and county pairs are often confusing. Taylor is not in Taylor County. Austin is not in Austin County. Anderson is not in Anderson County. But El Paso is in El Paso County, Dallas is in Dallas County and Lubbock is in Lubbock County. These lists can go on for a while. You will see similar things in this series of caches.
I hope this series will be seen as fun. To make them a little more interesting, I am also making them multicaches. These counties are found in literature, the internet, movies, and television. So, they must be real.
If you have been to any of these counties, make sure you record that fact when you log your find. Pictures would also be helpful for people looking for these counties. And let me know if I have omitted any Texas counties. For a complete list of all of the missing counties: https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCA69HB
Morales County (#260) and Castle County (#261)
I have dedicated a cache for each of these previously unknown counties, but here I make an exception and dedicate one geocache for this pair of counties. The counties are located a little northeast of San Antonio.
Morales County is the home of a crooked sheriff Duke and Castle County is the home of a good sheriff Tiger. “A Small Town in Texas” is a 1976 unauthorized documentary about these two counties.
The redirector is magnetic and contains six numbers. Be very careful when you see it and please put it back in exactly the same way. Let the six numbers be ABCDEF.
The final cache is at N30 30.ABC W97 40.DEF
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