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Throckmorton County, established in 1858, is a naturally beautiful county located in North Central Texas. Throckmorton boasts beautiful Texas landscapes under the huge Texas sky. From wide-open fields, to beautiful oak tree groves, to stunning sunsets, Throckmorton County is quite the place.
Throckmorton is composed of three towns: Elbert, Woodson, and Throckmorton. These are small and friendly communities, with the kindest people you will ever meet. The largest of these towns and the county seat is Throckmorton. The Town of Throckmorton is served by the Throckmorton Independent School District. Public education in the town of Woodson is provided by the Woodson Independent School District. WISD is home of the Woodson Cowboys and Cowgirls. These are small but fiercely competitive school where academic excellence and athletic success go hand in hand. There is a Throckmorton County Memorial Hospital and a Throckmorton Municipal Airport.
Throckmorton County has semi-arid rolling hills covered in mesquite with "jumping" and prickly pear cactus, "blue brush" and occasional live or post oaks. It has often hot dry summers and cold dry winters. The creek bottoms have huge pecan trees, hackberry, willow, "china berry", "chitelm", elm, cottonwood, and wild plums of several kinds as well as many other trees of various types. The land, as a whole, is a patchwork of mesquite, and farm fields dotted with old oil wells.
The Clear Fork of the Brazos River, located in southwestern Throckmorton County, boasts hunting and fishing opportunities. Wildlife is abundant. Throckmorton County is home to white-tailed deer, wild turkey, cotton tailed and jack rabbits, feral hogs, bobcats, raccoons, opossum, rattlesnake, bobwhite quail, mourning doves, armadillo, coyotes, an occasional badger, beaver, fox, mountain lion, and even javalina.
Large yellow catfish, channel catfish, large-mouthed bass, crappie, gar, carp, buffalo fish, drum, bream, and goggle-eyed sun perch live in the slow moving rivers or in the local lakes and stock tanks. Red-horse minnows and top-water minnows live in the ponds and thrive in the rippling shallows of the river and creeks.