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Bexar County's county seat is San Antonio.  In Spanish, "Béxar" is pronounced [behar] in referring to Bexar County, however, in English it is commonly pronounced [bera] (or simply "bear").  Bexar County was created on December 20, 1836, and encompassed almost the entire western portion of the Republic of Texas, including the disputed areas of western New Mexico northward to Wyoming. After statehood, 128 counties were carved out of its area.   The county gets its name from San Antonio de Béxar, one the twenty-three municipalities (administrative divisions) of Texas at the time of its independence. San Antonio de Béxar—originally Villa of San Fernando de Béxar—was the first civil government established in the Spanish province of Texas. Specifically, the municipality was created in 1731 when fifty-five Canary Islanders settled near the system of missions that had been established around the source of the San Antonio River. The new settlement was named after the Presidio San Antonio de Béxar, the Spanish military outpost that protected the missions.   The presidio, located at the San Pedro Springs, was founded in 1718 and named for Viceroy Balthasar Manuel de Zúñiga y Guzmán Sotomayor y Sarmiento, second son of the Duke of Béxar (a city in Spain). [wikipedia.org] Cities and towns   Alamo Heights Helotes San Antonio Balcones Heights Hill Country Village Schertz*** Castle Hills Hollywood Park Selma*** Cibolo Kirby Shavano Park China Grove Leon Springs Somerset Converse Leon Valley St. Hedwig Elmendorf Live Oak  Terrell Hills Fair Oaks Ranch** Lytle**** Universal City Grey Forest Olmos Park Von Ormy     Windcrest * Only a very small portion of Cibolo is located in Bexar County. ** Fair Oaks Ranch has territory in both Bexar County and Kendall County. *** Selma and Schertz each have territory in both Bexar County and Guadalupe County. **** Lytle has territory in Bexar County, Atascosa County and Medina County.

If you have information that you'd like to share about any town, family, county or subject, please send it to us and we'll make sure it gets posted to the right county.  We are looking for Census, Births, Deaths, Marriages, Biographies, Obituaries, and Newspaper Stories Mockingbird State Bird Online Data: Wish List: Website updates: January 2011: Biographies: Garza,  Mangham Death notices/Obits:  Crothers December 2011: Bios: Bonham, Bowie Death notices/Obits: Duncan, Everett, Gallagher,  Gilbert, Goodson, Ruis, Shannon News:  added 5 burial permits, 1923; crime news - Blementhal; train accident; last of Houston's army dies October 2011: Biography: Gannon Deaths:  additional 588 San Antonio deaths, 1875 - 1877 History:  List of San Antonio Mayors

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