Dimmit County, Texas

{{Short description|County in Texas, United States}} {{Distinguish|Dimmitt, Texas}} {{Use American English|date=June 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2024}} {{Infobox U.S. county | county = Dimmit County | state = Texas | seal = | founded = 1858 | seat wl = Carrizo Springs | largest city wl = Carrizo Springs | area_total_sq_mi = 1335 | area_land_sq_mi = 1329 | area_water_sq_mi = 5.6 | area percentage = 0.4% | census yr = 2020 | pop = 8615 | pop_est_as_of = 2025 | population_est = 8024 {{decrease}} <ref name="USCensusEst2025">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/popest/2020s-counties-total.html|title=County Population Totals and Components of Change: 2020-2025|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=April 16, 2026}}</ref> | density_sq_mi = 6.5 | ex image = Dimmit County, TX, Courthouse IMG 1701.JPG | ex image size = 200 | ex image cap = Dimmit County Courthouse in Carrizo Springs located off U.S. Highway 277 | website = {{Official URL}} | time zone = Central | district = 23rd | named for = Philip Dimmitt }}

'''Dimmit County''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|d|ɪ|m|ᵻ|t}} {{respell|DIM|it}}) is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 8,615.<ref name="QF">{{cite web|title=U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts: Dimmit County, Texas|url=https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/dimmitcountytexas/PST120221|access-date=January 31, 2022|publisher=United States Census Bureau}}</ref> Its county seat is Carrizo Springs.<ref name="GR6">{{cite web|url=http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/FindACounty.aspx |access-date=June 7, 2011 |title=Find a County |publisher=National Association of Counties |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110531210815/http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/FindACounty.aspx |archive-date=May 31, 2011 }}</ref> The county was founded in 1858 and later organized in 1880.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/documents/TX_Individual_County_Chronologies.htm|title=Texas: Individual County Chronologies|work=Texas Atlas of Historical County Boundaries|publisher=The Newberry Library|date=2008|access-date=May 21, 2015|archive-date=May 13, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150513024355/http://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/documents/TX_Individual_County_Chronologies.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> It is named after Philip Dimmitt,<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Govt. Print. Off. | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n105 106]}}</ref> a major figure in the Texas Revolution. The spelling of the county name and the individual's name differ because of a spelling error in the bill creating the county name.

==History==

===Native Americans===

Paleo-Indians artifacts indicate these people lived in Dimmit County as far back as 9200 BC. The archaic period (6000 BC to AD 1000) up to the arrival of the Spanish brought increased hunter-gatherers to the area. These Indians subsisted mostly on game, wild fruits, seeds, and roots.<ref>{{cite web|title=Native Peoples of the South Texas Plains During Early Historic Times |url=http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/st-plains/peoples/index.html|work=Texas Beyond History|publisher=UT-Austin|access-date=December 17, 2010}}</ref> They carved tools from wood and stone, wove baskets, and sewed rabbitskin robes. They also made pottery and hunted with bows and arrows.<ref>{{cite web|title=Distant Connections|url=http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/st-plains/prehistory/images/distant.html|work=Texas Beyond History|publisher=UT-Austin|access-date=December 17, 2010}}</ref> Their most effective weapon was the ''atlatl'', a throwing stick that greatly increased the deadliness of their spears. Coahuiltecan Indians native to now-Dimmit County were later squeezed out by Apache and Comanche. In 1870, Comanches and Kiowas raided the county, killing 3 men and stealing a Mexican boy. Texas Rangers and local volunteers, as well as disease, ran the Indians out of the county by 1877.<ref>{{cite book|last=Wishhart|first=David J|title=Encyclopedia of the Great Plains|year=2004|publisher=University of Nebraska Press|isbn=978-0-8032-4787-1|pages=345, 346|chapter=The Spanish and the Great Plains 1540–1821}}</ref><ref name="Dimmit County, Texas">{{cite web|last=Leffler|first=John|title=Dimmit County, Texas|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hcd09|work=Handbook of Texas Online|publisher=Texas State Historical Association|access-date=December 17, 2010|date=June 12, 2010}}</ref>

===The Wild Horse Desert=== The area between the Rio Grande and the Nueces River, which included the county, became disputed territory known as the Wild Horse Desert, where neither the Republic of Texas nor the Mexican government had clear control. Ownership was in dispute until the Mexican–American War. The area became filled with lawless characters, who deterred settlers in the area. An agreement signed between Mexico and the United States in the 1930s put the liability of payments to the descendants of the original land grants on Mexico.<ref>{{cite web |last=Wranker|first=Ralph|title=The South Texas Area|url=http://www.taliesyn.com/ralph/stex.htm|access-date=December 17, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Bartlett|first=Richard C|title=The Wild Horse Desert |year=1995|publisher=University of Texas Press|isbn=978-0-292-70835-8|pages=123–141|author2=Williamson, Leroy |author3=Sansom, Andrew |author4=Thornton III, Robert L |chapter=The South Texas Plains}}</ref>

===County established and settlements===

Dimmit County was officially established in 1858 from parts of Bexar, Webb, Maverick, and Uvalde Counties. The county was organized in 1880. Carrizo Springs became the county seat.<ref name="Dimmit County, Texas"/><ref>{{cite web|title=Carrizo Springs, Texas|url=http://www.texasescapes.com/SouthTexasTowns/Carrizo-Springs-Texas.htm|work=Texas Escapes|publisher=Texas Escapes – Blueprints For Travel, LLC|access-date=December 17, 2010}}</ref>

Early settlers found Dimmit County to be an abundant grassland with mesquite, oak, and ash trees and wildlife that included buffalo, deer, turkeys, feral horses (mustangs), panthers, and javelinas. Artesian springs, bubbling up from a vast reservoir of underground water, fed into running streams that harbored giant catfish, crawfish, and mussels. Explorers found the area a good place to hunt mustangs, and to feed and water cattle.<ref>{{cite web|title=Nature's Harvest|url=http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/st-plains/nature/index.html|work=Texas Beyond History|publisher=UT-Austin|access-date=December 17, 2010}}</ref>

Pioneering cattleman Levi English settled Carrizo Springs in 1865 with a group of 15 families from Atascosa County. Within two years, they were joined by a second group of settlers from Goliad County. Early dwellings were crude adobe structures or dugouts. In 1880, Levi English donated land for a county courthouse, schools, and churches in the town.<ref>{{cite web|last=Leffler|first=John|title=Levi English|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fen13|work=Handbook of Texas Online|publisher=Texas State Historical Association|access-date=December 17, 2010|date=June 12, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Leffler|first=John|title=Carrizo Springs|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hfc02 |work=Handbook of Texas Online|publisher=Texas State Historical Association|access-date=December 17, 2010|date=June 12, 2010}}</ref>

Lawlessness, banditry, and in particular, cattle rustling from both sides of the Mexican border, pervaded until the 1880s. Marshal J. King Fisher, managed to bring about a reduction in the lawlessness. King also staunchly enforced the "dry county" law once the residents voted to outlaw the sale of alcohol.<ref name="Dimmit County, Texas"/><ref>{{cite web|last=Adams|first=Paul|title=John King Fisher|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/ffi20|work=Handbook of Texas Online|publisher=Texas State Historical Association|access-date=December 17, 2010|date=June 12, 2010}}</ref>

Dimmit County's first producing oil well was drilled in 1943. In 1980, Dimmit County farmers earned about $20 million for their crops, while about $60 million in oil and gas were produced.<ref name="Dimmit County, Texas"/>

Formation of the 1914 White Man's Primary Association was designed to exclude Latino Americans from any meaningful participation in county politics. In the 1944 ''Smith v. Allwright'' case, the United States Supreme Court found the White Primary to be unconstitutional.<ref>{{cite web|title=321 U.S. 649 Smith v. Allwright|url=https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0321_0649_ZO.html|work=Decided: April 3, 1944|publisher=Cornell University Law School|access-date=December 17, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Long|first=Christopher|title=The White Man's Union Associations|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/vcw02|work=Handbook of Texas Online|publisher=Texas State Historical Association|access-date=December 17, 2010|date=June 15, 2010}}</ref>

===Water=== D.C. Frazier drilled the first artesian well, which produced gallons of water a minute, near Carrizo Springs in 1884.<ref>{{cite book|last=Taylor|first=Paul Schuster|title=Labor on the land: collected writings 1930–1970|year=1981|publisher=Arno Press|isbn=978-0-405-14208-6|page=83}}</ref> By 1900, about 25 artesian wells were flowing in the Carrizo Springs area, but most of the water was wasted, and very little was used for irrigation. Colonel J.S. Taylor introduced large-scale Bermuda onion and strawberry farming to the area, and was the first to use irrigation on a large scale in Dimmit County. In 1899, Taylor built a 30 ft dam across the Nueces River to irrigate {{convert|2000|acre|km2}} of farmland. He also drilled a deep artesian well. By 1910, Taylor's methods were being imitated by a number of other developers and vegetable farmers.<ref>{{cite web|last=Cindy|first=Wilke|title=Onion Culture|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/afo01|work=Handbook of Texas Online|publisher=Texas State Historical Association|access-date=December 17, 2010|date=June 15, 2010}}</ref> Irrigation helped make Dimmit County part of the Texas Winter Garden region.<ref>{{cite web|last=Odintz|first=Mark|title=Winter Garden Region|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/ryw02|work=Handbook of Texas Online|publisher=Texas State Historical Association|access-date=December 16, 2010|date=June 15, 2010}}</ref> By the 1920s, however, artesian water began to dry up. The necessity of installing expensive pumps drove many farmers out of business. By 1934, the United States Department of the Interior concluded that the existing water supply would not support substantial additional development. By 1965, only about {{convert|15000|acre|km2}} were being irrigated. Much of the land reverted to rangeland.<ref name="Dimmit County, Texas"/>

===Oil=== [[File:Austin Chalk stratigraphic column in Texas.png|thumb|300px|San Miguel and Olmos Formations stratigraphic column]] The Big Wells oil field, east of Big Wells, was discovered in 1969. The field produces from the Cretaceous San Miguel Formation sandstone underlying the Olmos Formation sandstone. The field extends north into Zavala.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Layden|first1=R.L.|editor1-last=Braunstein|editor1-first=Jules|title=Big Wells Field, Dimmit and Zavala Counties, Texas, in North American Oil and Gas Fields|date=1976|publisher=The American Association of Petroleum Geologists|location=Tulsa|isbn=978-0891813002|pages=145–156}}</ref>

The Eagle Ford oil field was reported to be under development in 2011, with 3,000 wells projected to extract oil by hydraulic fracturing from tight shale formations. The oil play has improved business activity in the county, but raised fears regarding the adequacy of water supplies, as fracking requires injection of large quantities of water under pressure into wells to break surrounding rock.<ref name=NYT>{{cite news|last=Krauss|first=Clifford|title=Shale Boom in Texas Could Increase U.S. Oil Output|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/28/business/energy-environment/28shale.html|access-date=May 28, 2011|newspaper=The New York Times|date=May 27, 2011|quote=the hottest new oil play in the country}}</ref>

==Geography== According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of {{convert|1335|sqmi|abbr=on}}, of which  {{convert|5.6|sqmi}} (0.4%) are covered by water.<ref name="GR1">{{cite web|url=http://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/counties_list_48.txt|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=April 22, 2015|date=August 22, 2012|title=2010 Census Gazetteer Files}}</ref>

===Major highways=== * 20px U.S. Highway 83 * 25px U.S. Highway 277 * 20px State Highway 85

===Adjacent counties=== * Zavala County (north) * Frio County (northeast) * La Salle County (east) * Webb County (south) * Maverick County (west)

==Demographics== {{US Census population |1870= 109 |1880= 665 |1890= 1049 |1900= 1106 |1910= 3460 |1920= 5296 |1930= 8828 |1940= 8542 |1950= 10654 |1960= 10095 |1970= 9039 |1980= 11367 |1990= 10433 |2000= 10248 |2010= 9996 |2020=8615 |estyear= 2025 |estimate= 8024 |estref=<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/dimmitcountytexas/PST045224|title=QuickFacts: Dimmit County, Texas|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=June 13, 2025}}</ref> {{decrease}} |align-fn=center |footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref name="DecennialCensus">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census/decade.html|title=Decennial Census by Decade|publisher=US Census Bureau|access-date=}}</ref> 1850–2010<ref>{{cite web|url=http://texasalmanac.com/sites/default/files/images/topics/ctypophistweb2010.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://texasalmanac.com/sites/default/files/images/topics/ctypophistweb2010.pdf |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |url-status=live|title=Texas Almanac: Population History of Counties from 1850–2010|publisher=Texas Almanac|access-date=April 22, 2015}}</ref> 2010–2020<ref name="QF"/> | align = right }}

===2020 census=== {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" |+Dimmit County, Texas – Racial and ethnic composition {{nobold|''Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race.''}} !Race / Ethnicity (''NH = Non-Hispanic'') !Pop 2000<ref name=2000CensusP004>{{Cite web|title=P004: Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2000: DEC Summary File 1 – Dimmit County, Texas |url=https://data.census.gov/table?g=050XX00US48127&tid=DECENNIALSF12000.P004|website=United States Census Bureau |access-date= }}</ref> !Pop 2010<ref name=2010CensusP2>{{Cite web|title=P2: Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2010: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Dimmit County, Texas|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=p2&g=050XX00US48127&tid=DECENNIALPL2010.P2|publisher=United States Census Bureau |access-date= }}</ref> !{{partial|Pop 2020}}<ref name=2020CensusP2>{{Cite web|title=P2: Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2020: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Dimmit County, Texas|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=p2&g=050XX00US48127&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2| website =United States Census Bureau |access-date= }}</ref> !% 2000 !% 2010 !{{partial|% 2020}} |- |White alone (NH) |1,350 |1,217 |style='background: #ffffe6; |898 |13.17% |12.17% |style='background: #ffffe6; |10.42% |- |Black or African American alone (NH) |67 |81 |style='background: #ffffe6; |72 |0.65% |0.81% |style='background: #ffffe6; |0.84% |- |Native American or Alaska Native alone (NH) |23 |7 |style='background: #ffffe6; |8 |0.22% |0.07% |style='background: #ffffe6; |0.09% |- |Asian alone (NH) |68 |51 |style='background: #ffffe6; |68 |0.66% |0.51% |style='background: #ffffe6; |0.79% |- |Pacific Islander alone (NH) |0 |0 |style='background: #ffffe6; |10 |0.00% |0.00% |style='background: #ffffe6; |0.12% |- |Other race alone (NH) |0 |10 |style='background: #ffffe6; |12 |0.00% |0.10% |style='background: #ffffe6; |0.14% |- |Mixed race or Multiracial (NH) |32 |14 |style='background: #ffffe6; |60 |0.31% |0.14% |style='background: #ffffe6; |0.70% |- |Hispanic or Latino (any race) |8,708 |8,616 |style='background: #ffffe6; |7,487 |84.97% |86.19% |style='background: #ffffe6; |86.91% |- |'''Total''' |'''10,248''' |'''9,996''' |style='background: #ffffe6; |'''8,615''' |'''100.00%''' |'''100.00%''' |style='background: #ffffe6; |'''100.00%''' |}

As of the 2020 census, the county had a population of 8,615. The median age was 38.2 years. 26.8% of residents were under the age of 18 and 18.3% of residents were 65 years of age or older. For every 100 females there were 94.4 males, and for every 100 females age 18 and over there were 92.1 males age 18 and over.<ref name="Census2020DP">{{cite web|title=2020 Decennial Census Demographic Profile (DP1)|url=https://api.census.gov/data/2020/dec/dp?get=NAME,DP1_0021P,DP1_0024P,DP1_0025C,DP1_0049C,DP1_0045C,DP1_0069C,DP1_0073C,DP1_0125P,DP1_0126P,DP1_0129P,DP1_0133P,DP1_0137P,DP1_0138P,DP1_0139P,DP1_0141P,DP1_0142P,DP1_0143P,DP1_0145P,DP1_0146P,DP1_0147C,DP1_0148C,DP1_0149C,DP1_0156C,DP1_0157C,DP1_0158C,DP1_0159P,DP1_0160P&for=county%3A127&in=state%3A48|website=United States Census Bureau|year=2021|access-date=January 9, 2026|df=mdy}}</ref>

The racial makeup of the county was 44.7% White, 1.0% Black or African American, 0.6% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.8% Asian, 0.2% Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander, 17.8% from some other race, and 34.9% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino residents of any race comprised 86.9% of the population.<ref name="Census2020PL">{{cite web|title=2020 Decennial Census Redistricting Data (Public Law 94-171)|url=https://api.census.gov/data/2020/dec/pl?get=NAME,P1_001N,P1_003N,P1_004N,P1_005N,P1_006N,P1_007N,P1_008N,P1_009N,P2_001N,P2_002N,H1_001N,H1_002N&for=county%3A127&in=state%3A48|website=United States Census Bureau|year=2021|access-date=January 9, 2026|df=mdy}}</ref>

65.2% of residents lived in urban areas, while 34.8% lived in rural areas.<ref name="Census2020DHC">{{cite web|title=2020 Decennial Census Demographic and Housing Characteristics (DHC)|url=https://api.census.gov/data/2020/dec/dhc?get=NAME,P2_002N,P2_003N&for=county%3A127&in=state%3A48|website=United States Census Bureau|year=2023|access-date=January 9, 2026|df=mdy}}</ref>

There were 3,020 households in the county, of which 36.9% had children under the age of 18 living in them. Of all households, 43.5% were married-couple households, 18.3% were households with a male householder and no spouse or partner present, and 31.6% were households with a female householder and no spouse or partner present. About 24.8% of all households were made up of individuals and 12.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.<ref name="Census2020DP"/>

There were 3,980 housing units, of which 24.1% were vacant. Among occupied housing units, 71.0% were owner-occupied and 29.0% were renter-occupied. The homeowner vacancy rate was 2.7% and the rental vacancy rate was 25.6%.<ref name="Census2020DP"/>

===2000 census=== As of the census<ref name="GR8">{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov |publisher=United States Census Bureau |access-date=May 14, 2011 |title=U.S. Census website }}</ref> of 2000, 10,248 people, 3,308 households, and 2,646 families were residing in the county. The population density was {{convert|8|/mi2|/km2|disp=preunit|people |people|}}. The 4,112 housing units averaged {{convert|3|/mi2|/km2|adj=pre|units }}. The racial makeup of the county was 76.95% White, 0.88% African American, 0.70% Native American, 0.66% Asian, 18.3% from other races, and 2.51% from two or more races. About 84.97% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Of the 3,308 households, 42.0% had children under 18 living with them, 57.4% were married couples living together, 17.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 20.0% were not families. About 18.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.30% had someone living alone who was 65 age or older. The average household size was 3.06, and the average family size was 3.48.

In the county, the age distribution was 33.2% under 18, 8.8% from 18 to 24, 24.70% from 25 to 44, 20.7% from 45 to 64, and 12.6% who were 65 or older. The median age was 32 years. For every 100 females, there were 94.30 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.10 males.

The median income for a household in the county was $21,917, and for a family was $24,579. Males had a median income of $25,000 versus $15,370 for females. The per capita income for the county was $9,765. About 33.20% of the population and 29.70% of families were below the poverty line. Of the total population, 40.30% of those under the age of 18 and 31.50% of those 65 and older were living below the poverty line. The county's ''per capita'' income makes it one of the poorest counties in the United States. ==Politics== Like most of heavily Hispanic South Texas, Dimmit votes predominantly Democratic. While the state of Texas went strongly for Republican George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential election, Dimmit County was a traditional stronghold of the Democratic Party, supporting U.S. Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts, with 2,365 votes for Kerry to 1,188 for Bush.  The last Republican to win a majority in Dimmit County was Richard Nixon in 1972.<ref>Sullivan, Robert David; [http://www.americamagazine.org/content/unconventional-wisdom/how-red-and-blue-map-evolved-over-past-century ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’]; ''America Magazine'' in ''The National Catholic Review''; June 29, 2016</ref> In 1892, Dimmit County gave all its few votes to Populist James B. Weaver, thus making it his leading county.

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==Education== thumb|The Dimmit County Library in Carrizo Springs All of Dimmit County is served by the Carrizo Springs Independent School District.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st48_tx/schooldistrict_maps/c48127_dimmit/DC20SD_C48127.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st48_tx/schooldistrict_maps/c48127_dimmit/DC20SD_C48127.pdf |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |url-status=live|title=2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Dimmit County, TX|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau|accessdate=June 30, 2022}} - [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st48_tx/schooldistrict_maps/c48127_dimmit/DC20SD_C48127_SD2MS.txt Text list]</ref>

Asherton Independent School District closed in 1999 and joined Carrizo Springs ISD.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://tea.texas.gov/sites/default/files/Consolidations%20and%20Annexations%20thru%202017-18.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://tea.texas.gov/sites/default/files/Consolidations%20and%20Annexations%20thru%202017-18.pdf |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |url-status=live|title=CONSOLIDATIONS, ANNEXATIONS AND NAME CHANGES FOR TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS|publisher=Texas Education Agency|date=September 10, 2018|accessdate=October 30, 2019}}</ref>

The designated community college is Southwest Texas Junior College.<ref>[https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/ED/htm/ED.130.htm Texas Education Code: Sec. 130.200. SOUTHWEST TEXAS JUNIOR COLLEGE DISTRICT SERVICE AREA.]</ref>

==Communities== thumb|Map of Dimmit County, with Carrizo Springs highlighted

===Cities=== * Asherton * Big Wells * Carrizo Springs (county seat)

===Census-designated places=== * Brundage * Carrizo Hill * Catarina

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* {{Official website}} * {{Handbook of Texas|id=hcd09|name=Dimmit County}} * Read [https://web.archive.org/web/20070311044224/http://texashistory.unt.edu/permalink/meta-pth-5827%3A338 Philip Dimmit's entry] in the [https://archive.today/20121205004737/http://texashistory.unt.edu/permalink/meta-pth-5827 Biographical Encyclopedia of Texas] hosted by the [http://texashistory.unt.edu/ Portal to Texas History]. * [http://texashistory.unt.edu/search/?q=%22United+States+-+Texas+-+Dimmit+County%22&t=dc.coverage Historic Dimmit County materials], hosted by the [http://texashistory.unt.edu/ Portal to Texas History.] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20180316073424/http://www.historictexas.net/dimmit-county/dimmit-county-texas Dimmit County History] at HistoricTexas.net * [http://www.txcip.org/tac/census/profile.php?FIPS=48127 ''Dimmit County Profile'' by the Texas Association of Counties] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131023061305/http://www.txcip.org/tac/census/profile.php?FIPS=48127 |date=October 23, 2013 }}

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