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About Rusk County
Rusk County is a county located in Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 52,214. Its county seat is Henderson. The county is named after Thomas Jefferson Rusk, a secretary of war of the Republic of Texas.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
At a glance
Rusk County at a glance
- County seat
- Henderson
- Population
- 52,214 (2020)
- Land area
- 939 sq mi
- Founded
- 1843
Communities
Largest communities in Rusk County
- Kilgore13,470
- Henderson county seat13,271
- Lake Cherokee2,980
- Overton2,275
- Tatum1,342
History of Rusk County
Prior to Texas' annexation in 1845, the land while from time to time occupied by Caddoan peoples, was generally unpopulated until 1819, when Cherokee Indians, led by The Bowl settled in what is now Rusk County. The Treaty of Bowles Village on February 23, 1836, between the Republic of Texas and the Cherokee and 12 affiliated tribes, gave parts of western Rusk County along with parts of today's Gregg and Van Zandt Counties, in addition to the whole areas of Cherokee and Smith Counties to the tribes. They remained on these lands until the Cherokee War in the summer of 1839. Thus the Cherokee were driven out of Rusk County only to return in 1844 and 1845 with the purchase of 10,000 acres of land by Benjamin Franklin Thompson a white man married to a Cherokee.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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