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Dawson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, its population was 13,833.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/48/48115.html )〕 The county seat is Lamesa.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 The county was created in 1876 and later organized in 1905. It is named for Nicholas Mosby Dawson, a soldier of the Texas Revolution. Dawson County comprises the Lamesa, TX Micropolitan Statistical Area. ==History== A Dawson County was founded in 1856 from Kinney County, Maverick County and Uvalde County, but was divided in 1866 between Kinney County and Uvalde County. The current Dawson County was founded in 1876. In 1943, the discovery well for the Spraberry Trend, the third-largest oil field in the United States by remaining reserves,〔(Top 100 Oil and Gas Fields )〕 was drilled in Dawson County on land owned by farmer Abner Spraberry, for whom the geological formation and associated field was named. While most of the oil fields are in the counties to the south, a small portion of the Spraberry Trend is in Dawson County. Production on the field did not begin until 1949, and by 1951 an oil boom was underway in the area, with Midland at its center.〔(Handbook of Texas Online: Spraberry Oil Field )〕 J. E. Airhart, a former 30-year member of the Dawson County Commissioners Court, died in 2007. A farmer and rancher who served as a county commissioner from 1955 to 1985, Airhart worked to obtain the county livestock and fair barn, the general aviation airport, and numerous highway improvements. He was instrumental in the successful negotiation of rights-of-way for U.S. Highway 87 north to O'Donnell and south to Ackerly. Like all Texas counties, Dawson County has four commissioners chosen by single-member district and a countywide elected county judge, the chief administrator of the county. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dawson County, Texas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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