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About Medina County
Medina County is a county located in the South central part of the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 50,748. Its county seat is Hondo. The county is named for the Medina River. The extreme northern part of the county lies within the Edwards Plateau, which elevates into the Texas Hill Country. The Medina Dam, the fourth-largest in the nation when completed in 1913, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The irrigation project, creating Medina Lake, was built by 1500 skilled workers who worked in shifts operating 24 hours a day to complete the dam in two years. Medina County is part of the San Antonio, TX metropolitan statistical area.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
At a glance
Medina County at a glance
- County seat
- Hondo
- Population
- 50,748 (2020)
- Land area
- 1,334 sq mi
- Founded
- 1848
Communities
Largest communities in Medina County
- San Antonio1,434,625
- Hondo county seat8,289
- Devine4,324
- Castroville2,954
- Lytle2,914
History of Medina County
The county is named after the Medina River, which was named in 1689 after Spanish cartographer Pedro de Medina by Spanish explorer Alonso de Leon, the first European to encounter the river. Because Pedro de Medina derived his surname from the Andalusian city of Medina-Sidonia, the name Medina comes from the Arabic for city. The Texas Legislature formed Medina County on February 12, 1848, and enlarged it on February 1, 1850, using land taken from Bexar County. Castroville was the county seat, and the county erected the first permanent courthouse there in 1854. The county seat moved to Hondo in 1892, and a new courthouse was completed there in 1893.
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