Cass County

Cass Conty, Texas

Cass Conty, Texas

Cass County Historical Marker, Cass Conty, Texas. Photograph by TeamOHE for the Historical Marker Database. Public Domain.
Cass County, Texas

Cass County, Texas

Map of Cass County, Texas. Map Credit: Robert Plocheck.

Cass County, bordered by Arkansas and Louisiana on the east, is located in northeastern Texas on the state's eastern boundary; it is one county removed from the northern boundary. Linden, the county seat, is in the south central portion of the county fourteen miles southwest of Atlanta, the county's largest town. The county's center lies at approximately 33°05' north latitude and 94°21' west longitude. U.S. Highway 59 connects Linden, Atlanta, and Queen City with Jefferson to the south and Texarkana to the north. The county's transportation needs are also served by State highways 8, 11, 77, and 155, and by two rail lines, the Missouri Pacific and the Louisiana and Arkansas. Cass County comprises 937 square miles of the East Texas timberlands, an area that is heavily forested with a great variety of softwoods and hardwoods, especially pine, cypress, and oak. The terrain ranges from nearly level to hilly, with an elevation ranging from 200 to 632 feet above sea level. Several stony hills in the western part of the county rise to a height of more than 200 feet and have been protected from erosion by the ironstone material that caps them. The largest of these hills are the Cusseta Mountains, five miles east of Marietta. Northern Cass County is drained by the Sulphur River, and the remainder is drained by Cypress Creek. The soil is light-colored and predominantly sandy and loamy. Between 21 and 30 percent of the land in Cass County is considered prime farmland. Mineral resources include ceramic clay, granite, industrial sand, oil, gas, iron, and lignite coal. Temperatures range from an average high of 92° F in July to an average low of 31° F in January. Rainfall averages almost forty-seven inches a year, and the growing season extends for an average of 237 days.

The Caddo Indians, an agricultural people with a highly developed culture, had occupied the area for centuries before the arrival of Europeans, but disease and threats from other Indians forced them to abandon the region in the final years of the eighteenth century. During the 1820s bands of Shawnee, Delaware, and Kickapoo Indians inhabited the area for a few years, but they abandoned their settlements in the mid-1830s.

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Adapted from the official Handbook of Texas, a state encyclopedia developed by Texas State Historical Association (TSHA). It is an authoritative source of trusted historical records.

Currently Exists

Yes

Place type

Cass County is classified as a County

Altitude Range

167 ft – 627 ft

Size

Land area does not include water surface area, whereas total area does

  • Land Area: 937.0 mi²
  • Total Area: 960.3 mi²

Temperature

January mean minimum: 34.6°F
July mean maximum: 92.1°F

Rainfall, 2019

49.2 inches

Population Count, 2019

30,026

Civilian Labor Count, 2019

12,106

Unemployment, 2019

8.8%

Property Values, 2019

$2,880,720,700 USD

Per-Capita Income, 2019

$36,905 USD

Retail Sales, 2019

$267,864,224 USD

Wages, 2019

$77,188,077 USD

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