Hall

Formed August 21, 1876 (194^th county)

Hall County (2,817), Memphis (2,042)                

The Beaux Arts courthouse of Hall County was built in 1923 and sited on the square at the intersection of Noel and 5^th streets.  This is one block west of the intersection of United States Highway 287 and Texas State Highway 256.  The courthouse is a red brick and column design provided by the C. H. Page and Brother.  Memphis has always been the county seat providing all three courthouses since the August 21, 1876 county formation, the last was the 1890 version.  The county was taken from Bexar County as the 194^th county.  Hall is named for North Carolina lawyer, Warren D. C. Hall, Republic of Texas Secretary of War.  Memphis gets its name from Memphis, Tennessee. 

Hall County government consists of a sheriff, a County Judge, and 4 Commissioners.  One District Court Judge serves Hall, Carson, Childress, Collingsworth, and Donley counties and One County Court Judge serves Hall County.  The county is in the panhandle southeast of Amarillo, Texas and northwest of Wichita Falls, Texas.  The county center is 30.3 miles Southwest of Memphis nearer Turkey.  The county is surrounded clockwise by Collingsworth, Childress, Cottle, Motley, Briscoe, and Donley counties. 

The area of the county is 903 square miles.  It is 138 out of 254 in the state.  It ranks 225 out of 254 in population in the state.  It has a density of 3.1 persons per square mile making it 219 out of 254 in the state.  Hall County has 90.3% of its population in its incorporated areas.  United States Highway 287 crosses the northeast corner from Donley County, north, to Childress County, east.  The county is a square like most in the panhandle.  The main channel of the Red River flows through the northern third of the county.  Memphis is on the northern border with Donley and Collingsworth counties.  Memphis is the county seat and the largest city.  It is 72.5% of the county population.

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