Wegefarth County, Texas

Wegefarth County was a Texas county established on June 2, 1873 from Bexar and Young territories and abolished on August 21, 1876. The county shared boundaries with Hardeman County, Indian Territory, and with Greer County which was subject to a territorial dispute between Texas and the U.S. government which maintained that Greer County properly belonged to Indian Territory.[1][2] The county was named after C. Wegefarth.[3]

Wegefarth County
U.S. county
Map of Greer and Wegefarth counties in 1874
Location within the U.S. state of Texas
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Country	United States
State	Texas
Existed	1873-1876
Named for	Conrad Wegefarth

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Wegefarth County was abolished under a legislative act that created new counties across the Panhandle and, more broadly, across much of the northwestern area of the state. Specifically, those counties formed over lands previously held by Wegefarth were Collingsworth and Donley as well as portions of Briscoe, Childress, Gray, Hall, and Wheeler counties.[2]