Brewster County, Texas

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Brewster County
County
Brewster County Courthouse June 2020.jpg
The Brewster County Courthouse in Alpine
Map of Texas highlighting Brewster County.svg
Location within the U.S. state of Texas
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Texas's location within the U.S.
Coordinates: 29°48′43″N103°15′06″W / 29.81185°N 103.2517°W / 29.81185; -103.2517
CountryFlag of the United States.svg United States
StateFlag of Texas.svg  Texas
Founded1887
Named for Henry Percy Brewster
Seat Alpine
Largest cityAlpine
Area
 • Total
6,192 sq mi (16,040 km2)
 • Land6,184 sq mi (16,020 km2)
 • Water8.5 sq mi (22 km2)  0.1%
Population
 (2020)
 • Total
9,546
 • Density1.5/sq mi (0.6/km2)
Time zone UTC−6 (Central)
 • Summer (DST) UTC−5 (CDT)
Congressional district 23rd
Website www.brewstercountytx.com

Brewster County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. It is in West Texas and its county seat (and only city) is Alpine. [1] It is one of the nine counties that comprise the Trans-Pecos region, and borders Mexico. Brewster County is the largest county by area in the state - at 6,192 square miles (16,040 km2) it is over three times the size of the state of Delaware, and more than 500 square miles (1,300 km2) bigger than Connecticut. [2]

Contents

As of the 2020 census, the population was 9,546. [3]

The county is named for Colonel Henry Percy Brewster, a Secretary of War for the Republic of Texas.

History

Native Americans

Paleo-Indian hunter-gatherers existed in the region at least 9000 years ago. Mescalaro Apaches emerged later and conducted raids that discouraged settlers. Between 1779 and 1787, Col. Juan de Ugalde drove the Mescalaros back north across the Rio Grande and into the Chisos Mountains. The three leading Mescalero chiefs, Patula Grande, Quemado, and Zapato Tuerto, agreed in March 1789 to submit to Spanish rule. [4] Comanche raiding parties continued through much of the 19th century. [5]

Early explorations

Chihuahuan Desert landscape in Brewster County FouquieriaSplendens 2006 BigBend.jpg
Chihuahuan Desert landscape in Brewster County

Spanish explorers Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca in 1535 and Antonio de Espejo in 1583 crossed Brewster County on their way to La Junta de los Ríos, the junction of the Rio Grande and the Rio Conchos. [6]

In 1684, Juan Domínguez de Mendoza camped at Kokernot Spring and wrote the earliest recorded description of it. [7]

Pedro de Rábago y Terán, Governor of Coahuila in the 1740s, led an expedition to La Junta de los Ríos. [8]

Northern Mexican military governor Lt. Col. Hugo Oconór led a 1772 expedition to locate sites for forts on the Comanche Trail along the Rio Grande. [9] [10]

In October 1851, Danish-born Col. Edvard Emil Langberg, Mexican commandant of Chihuahua, visited southern Brewster County. [11]

Surveyor William H. Emory in 1852 sent M. T. W. Chandler to survey what is now the heart of Big Bend National Park. Chandler explored Santa Elena Canyon, the Chisos Mountains Mariscal Canyon, and Boquillas Canyon. [12]

An 1859 expedition of the U.S. Camel Corps under 2d Lt. Edward L. Hartz explored the Comanche Trail through Persimmon Gap and down Tornillo Creek to the Rio Grande. A year later, a second camel expedition under 2d Lt. William Echols also explored along the Rio Grande. [5]

County established and growth

Map of Presidio County, Texas and the counties of Brewster, Buchel, Foley, and Jeff Davis created from Presidio in 1887: Buchel and Foley were abolished and joined to Brewster in 1897. PresidioAndNewCounties1888.jpg
Map of Presidio County, Texas and the counties of Brewster, Buchel, Foley, and Jeff Davis created from Presidio in 1887: Buchel and Foley were abolished and joined to Brewster in 1897.

Brewster County was marked off in 1887 from Presidio County and named for Henry Percy Brewster. Murphyville, later renamed Alpine, was selected as county seat. [13]

In response to threats of ongoing Indian attacks, Camp Peña Colorado was established in 1879 a few miles south of the future site of Marathon. [14]

Word of mouth about the open rangeland in the area was spread by freighters John W Burgess and August Santleben, leading the way for settlers. [15]

The Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway built through the area in 1882, opening up opportunity for entrepreneurs who came on railroad-related business and stayed. [16]

Alfred S. Gage moved to the area in 1882 to help his brother's ranching operation, founding the A. S. Gage Ranch, one of the largest ranching operations in Texas, in 1883. In 1927, he built the Gage Hotel in Marathon. [17] [18] [19]

Legendary lawman and later Texas Rangers Hall of Fame member James B. Gillett served as sheriff of Brewster County, and operated a ranch in Alpine in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He later retired to his Barrel Spring Ranch in Jeff Davis County. [20] [21] [22]

Joseph Daniel Jackson came to the area in 1882 as part of Company B of the Texas Rangers assigned to protect the railroad. By 1882, he had settled near Alpine and taken up ranching, branching out later to become a merchant and civic leader. Jackson is known locally as the father of Sul Ross University due to his efforts that helped lead to the establishment of the school. [23] Sul Ross University, named for Texas Governor Lawrence Sullivan Ross, was created by an act of the 35th Legislature in 1917 as a state normal college to train teachers. [24]

Population boom

The population grew from 710 in 1890 to 5,220 in 1910 due for the most part to industries that relied on natural resources. [5]

From the turn of the 20th century through World War II, the Terlingua Mining District, west of the Chisos Mountains, was a boom town due to the extraction of cinnabar, a mercury ore. Silver and lead from mines on the Mexican side of the river in the Boquillas area were shipped north, as were candelilla wax produced at factories at Glenn Spring and Mariscal, and the guayule rubber from a factory in Marathon. [25]

Pancho Villa and banditos

Brewster County became targeted by incursions of bandits from Mexico, inspired at least in part by Pancho Villa. In June 1915, Governor James E. Ferguson asked President Woodrow Wilson to station troops in the Big Bend. The request was denied by Maj. Gen. Frederick Funston, who believed such security was a state issue. Although a number of events took place to effect policy change, the tipping point was the May 5, 1916, raid at Glenn Spring. Only nine soldiers had been stationed in the area for protection against the bandits. Estimates vary as to the number of Mexican raiders who attacked the soldiers, from 60 to several hundred. The raid caused a larger military presence in the area. President Wilson mobilized the National Guard to reinforce the Army, and by the end of 1916, an estimated 116,957 guardsmen were stationed along the border from California to Texas. As the mines and wax factories played out after World War I, raids from across the border abated. [26]

Big Bend

The geographic region known as the Big Bend is a loosely defined section of the Trans-Pecos, although generally agreed to comprise its more southern portions. Characterized by an extremely rugged, arid Chihuahuan Desert landscape, the region takes its name from the sharp northeastward turn made by the Rio Grande nearby. Often noted for its stark beauty, the Big Bend was described by the historian Walter Prescott Webb as "the finest example of earth-wreckage in Texas". [27] It was for this reason that a national park was to be established in the region.

Big Bend National Park was established as a state park in 1933 by the state legislature, and expanded the same year by Governor Miriam A. Ferguson. In 1935, the United States Congress passed legislation founding it as a national park. Big Bend opened to the public in 1944. [28] At just over 800,000 acres, it is the fourteenth largest national park in the United States and is larger than the state of Rhode Island. [29]

Big Bend Ranch State Park (located partially in Presidio County) opened to the public in 1991; at 300,000 acres (1,200 km2), it is the largest state park in Texas. [30]

Terlingua Chili Cookoffs

Terlingua produced 40% of the nation's quicksilver in 1920, but declining population has since qualified it as a ghost town. In 1962, The Dallas Morning News columnist Francis X. Tolbert published his ode to chili Bowl of Red and founded the Chili Appreciation Society. Fellow columnist Wick Fowler joined in the fun and became a charter member. The World Championship Chili Cookoff at Terlingua began as a tongue-in-cheek challenge between Fowler and humorist H. Allen Smith in 1967 and has become a November tradition, celebrated across the state and nation. On the first Saturday in November Terlingua now hosts two competing international chili championships: the Terlingua International Chili Championship, and the Original Terlingua International Chili Cookoff. [31]

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 6,192 square miles (16,040 km2), of which 6,184 square miles (16,020 km2) are land and 8.5 square miles (22 km2) (0.1%) are covered by water. [32] It is the largest county in Texas by area. The only substantial water is half the width of the Rio Grande.

The county's area is larger than the combined area of Delaware and Rhode Island, and larger than area of the individual states Connecticut, Delaware, and Rhode Island.

The Roadian Age of the Permian Period of geological time is named for rock strata in Road Canyon in the northern part of the county. [33]

The Wordian Age of the Permian Period is probably named for the Word Ranch in the Glass Mountains, also in the northern part. [34]

Adjacent counties and municipalities

Sunset in Big Bend National Park Big Bend South Rim sunset.jpg
Sunset in Big Bend National Park

National protected areas

Major highways

U.S. Highway 90 crosses the county in the north; U.S. Highway 385 enters Brewster County from the northeast and proceeds south to the county's main attraction, Big Bend National Park, part of the Big Bend. The Sunset Route of the Union Pacific Railroad crosses northern parts of the county, and a recently revived portion of the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway traverses the county en route to Presidio.

Climate

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About 39.4% of Brewster County is classified as having a hot arid desert climate (Köppen BWh). The remainder has a semiarid steppe climate with 32.1% experiencing a cold steppe climate (Köppen BSk), while 28.5% is assigned as a hot steppe climate (Köppen BSh). [35] Temperatures are coolest and rainfall most abundant in the county's northern highlands and in the upper elevations of the Chisos Mountains in the south. In the southern lowlands along the Rio Grande, snowfall is uncommon, rainfall much reduced, and summer high temperatures can be extreme. Throughout the county, precipitation falls mostly from May through October with the remainder of the year predominantly dry.

Alpine
Climate data for Alpine, Texas (March 1, 1900–March 31, 2013)
MonthJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecYear
Mean daily maximum °F (°C)60.5
(15.8)		64.5
(18.1)		70.9
(21.6)		78.7
(25.9)		85.4
(29.7)		90.8
(32.7)		89.4
(31.9)		88.5
(31.4)		83.8
(28.8)		77.8
(25.4)		67.8
(19.9)		61.5
(16.4)		76.6
(24.8)
Mean daily minimum °F (°C)32.7
(0.4)		35.2
(1.8)		40.1
(4.5)		47.5
(8.6)		55.5
(13.1)		62.7
(17.1)		64.0
(17.8)		63.1
(17.3)		58.0
(14.4)		49.5
(9.7)		39.3
(4.1)		33.9
(1.1)		48.5
(9.2)
Average precipitation inches (mm)0.53
(13)		0.48
(12)		0.36
(9.1)		0.50
(13)		1.24
(31)		2.30
(58)		2.75
(70)		2.65
(67)		2.57
(65)		1.30
(33)		0.51
(13)		0.60
(15)		15.79
(399.1)
Source: Western Regional Climate Center, Desert Research Institute [37]
Castolon
Climate data for Castolon, Texas (February 1, 1947–March 31, 2013)
MonthJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecYear
Mean daily maximum °F (°C)68.3
(20.2)		74.4
(23.6)		82.9
(28.3)		91.9
(33.3)		99.8
(37.7)		103.4
(39.7)		102.2
(39.0)		101.1
(38.4)		96.3
(35.7)		88.5
(31.4)		77.7
(25.4)		68.4
(20.2)		87.9
(31.1)
Mean daily minimum °F (°C)34.5
(1.4)		39.5
(4.2)		47.1
(8.4)		56.2
(13.4)		66.2
(19.0)		73.1
(22.8)		74.4
(23.6)		73.5
(23.1)		68.6
(20.3)		57.7
(14.3)		44.2
(6.8)		35.4
(1.9)		55.9
(13.3)
Average precipitation inches (mm)0.37
(9.4)		0.29
(7.4)		0.23
(5.8)		0.41
(10)		0.96
(24)		1.45
(37)		1.71
(43)		1.62
(41)		1.47
(37)		1.06
(27)		0.36
(9.1)		0.30
(7.6)		10.23
(258.3)
Source: Western Regional Climate Center, Desert Research Institute [38]
Chisos Basin
Climate data for Chisos Basin, Texas (August 1, 1943–March 31, 2013)
MonthJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecYear
Mean daily maximum °F (°C)58.3
(14.6)		61.8
(16.6)		68.7
(20.4)		76.3
(24.6)		82.8
(28.2)		86.8
(30.4)		84.8
(29.3)		83.7
(28.7)		79.5
(26.4)		73.8
(23.2)		65.2
(18.4)		59.4
(15.2)		73.4
(23.0)
Mean daily minimum °F (°C)36.9
(2.7)		39.1
(3.9)		44.1
(6.7)		51.5
(10.8)		58.5
(14.7)		63.3
(17.4)		63.7
(17.6)		62.7
(17.1)		58.6
(14.8)		51.9
(11.1)		43.2
(6.2)		37.9
(3.3)		50.9
(10.5)
Average precipitation inches (mm)0.68
(17)		0.58
(15)		0.41
(10)		0.62
(16)		1.59
(40)		2.21
(56)		3.39
(86)		3.12
(79)		2.48
(63)		1.51
(38)		0.57
(14)		0.51
(13)		17.67
(447)
Source: Western Regional Climate Center, Desert Research Institute [39]
Lajitas
Climate data for Lajitas, Texas (March 1, 1978–March 31, 2013)
MonthJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecYear
Mean daily maximum °F (°C)68.8
(20.4)		75.0
(23.9)		83.1
(28.4)		91.2
(32.9)		97.8
(36.6)		102.2
(39.0)		100.5
(38.1)		99.1
(37.3)		95.1
(35.1)		87.8
(31.0)		77.4
(25.2)		69.2
(20.7)		87.3
(30.7)
Mean daily minimum °F (°C)34.6
(1.4)		39.1
(3.9)		45.8
(7.7)		54.3
(12.4)		63.8
(17.7)		73.0
(22.8)		74.1
(23.4)		72.9
(22.7)		67.6
(19.8)		56.3
(13.5)		43.6
(6.4)		35.2
(1.8)		55.0
(12.8)
Average precipitation inches (mm)0.33
(8.4)		0.27
(6.9)		0.23
(5.8)		0.34
(8.6)		0.95
(24)		1.47
(37)		2.16
(55)		1.32
(34)		1.57
(40)		1.29
(33)		0.30
(7.6)		0.24
(6.1)		10.47
(266.4)
Source: Western Regional Climate Center, Desert Research Institute [40]
Marathon
Climate data for Marathon, Texas (July 1, 1896–February 28, 2013)
MonthJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecYear
Mean daily maximum °F (°C)62.1
(16.7)		65.7
(18.7)		72.9
(22.7)		80.3
(26.8)		86.5
(30.3)		91.1
(32.8)		90.5
(32.5)		90.0
(32.2)		84.9
(29.4)		78.6
(25.9)		69.3
(20.7)		63.0
(17.2)		77.9
(25.5)
Mean daily minimum °F (°C)28.8
(−1.8)		31.5
(−0.3)		37.2
(2.9)		44.6
(7.0)		53.1
(11.7)		60.0
(15.6)		62.4
(16.9)		61.3
(16.3)		56.5
(13.6)		46.4
(8.0)		35.5
(1.9)		29.8
(−1.2)		45.6
(7.6)
Average precipitation inches (mm)0.44
(11)		0.40
(10)		0.40
(10)		0.74
(19)		1.62
(41)		1.87
(47)		2.21
(56)		2.14
(54)		2.42
(61)		1.40
(36)		0.52
(13)		0.51
(13)		14.67
(371)
Source: Western Regional Climate Center, Desert Research Institute [41]
Panther Junction
Climate data for Panther Junction, Texas (April 1, 1955–March 31, 2013)
MonthJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecYear
Mean daily maximum °F (°C)61.6
(16.4)		66.4
(19.1)		74.5
(23.6)		83.2
(28.4)		89.9
(32.2)		94.3
(34.6)		92.9
(33.8)		91.7
(33.2)		86.9
(30.5)		79.8
(26.6)		70.0
(21.1)		62.6
(17.0)		79.5
(26.4)
Mean daily minimum °F (°C)36.0
(2.2)		39.2
(4.0)		45.6
(7.6)		53.5
(11.9)		61.4
(16.3)		67.2
(19.6)		68.8
(20.4)		67.8
(19.9)		62.4
(16.9)		53.9
(12.2)		44.1
(6.7)		37.4
(3.0)		53.1
(11.7)
Average precipitation inches (mm)0.48
(12)		0.50
(13)		0.33
(8.4)		0.54
(14)		1.37
(35)		1.64
(42)		2.13
(54)		1.99
(51)		1.82
(46)		1.42
(36)		0.56
(14)		0.43
(11)		13.21
(336.4)
Source: Western Regional Climate Center, Desert Research Institute [42]
Persimmon Gap
Climate data for Persimmon Gap, Texas (May 2, 1952–March 31, 2013)
MonthJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecYear
Mean daily maximum °F (°C)64.5
(18.1)		69.2
(20.7)		77.5
(25.3)		86.3
(30.2)		93.7
(34.3)		97.7
(36.5)		96.4
(35.8)		95.7
(35.4)		90.4
(32.4)		83.3
(28.5)		73.0
(22.8)		64.0
(17.8)		82.6
(28.2)
Mean daily minimum °F (°C)33.8
(1.0)		37.3
(2.9)		44.7
(7.1)		53.4
(11.9)		62.8
(17.1)		70.5
(21.4)		72.1
(22.3)		71.6
(22.0)		65.3
(18.5)		54.3
(12.4)		42.0
(5.6)		34.3
(1.3)		53.5
(12.0)
Average precipitation inches (mm)0.40
(10)		0.37
(9.4)		0.34
(8.6)		0.43
(11)		1.02
(26)		1.36
(35)		1.65
(42)		1.60
(41)		1.71
(43)		0.94
(24)		0.50
(13)		0.34
(8.6)		10.66
(271.6)
Source: Western Regional Climate Center, Desert Research Institute [43]
Study Butte
Climate data for Study Butte, Texas (May 1, 1993–June 30, 2006)
MonthJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecYear
Mean daily maximum °F (°C)69.2
(20.7)		73.2
(22.9)		81.0
(27.2)		88.9
(31.6)		98.2
(36.8)		100.6
(38.1)		99.6
(37.6)		98.2
(36.8)		94.7
(34.8)		86.3
(30.2)		75.7
(24.3)		66.3
(19.1)		86.0
(30.0)
Mean daily minimum °F (°C)36.5
(2.5)		41.5
(5.3)		47.3
(8.5)		55.2
(12.9)		66.3
(19.1)		72.9
(22.7)		73.8
(23.2)		73.0
(22.8)		67.9
(19.9)		57.2
(14.0)		45.9
(7.7)		36.5
(2.5)		56.2
(13.4)
Average precipitation inches (mm)0.26
(6.6)		0.17
(4.3)		0.37
(9.4)		0.33
(8.4)		0.63
(16)		1.32
(34)		1.86
(47)		1.77
(45)		0.61
(15)		1.09
(28)		0.47
(12)		0.26
(6.6)		9.14
(232.3)
Source: Western Regional Climate Center, Desert Research Institute [44]
Terlingua Ranch
Climate data for Terlingua Ranch, Texas (May 1, 1993–March 31, 2013)
MonthJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecYear
Mean daily maximum °F (°C)63.5
(17.5)		66.9
(19.4)		74.2
(23.4)		82.8
(28.2)		91.2
(32.9)		95.0
(35.0)		93.8
(34.3)		93.2
(34.0)		88.5
(31.4)		80.3
(26.8)		71.0
(21.7)		62.4
(16.9)		80.2
(26.8)
Mean daily minimum °F (°C)34.8
(1.6)		37.9
(3.3)		43.7
(6.5)		51.5
(10.8)		61.0
(16.1)		66.9
(19.4)		68.0
(20.0)		67.3
(19.6)		61.9
(16.6)		52.6
(11.4)		42.5
(5.8)		35.3
(1.8)		51.9
(11.1)
Average precipitation inches (mm)0.36
(9.1)		0.38
(9.7)		0.42
(11)		0.48
(12)		0.98
(25)		1.46
(37)		2.28
(58)		1.27
(32)		1.27
(32)		1.04
(26)		0.44
(11)		0.20
(5.1)		10.58
(267.9)
Source: Western Regional Climate Center, Desert Research Institute [45]

Demographics

Historical population
CensusPop.Note%±
1890 710—
1900 2,356231.8%
1910 5,220121.6%
1920 4,822−7.6%
1930 6,62437.4%
1940 6,478−2.2%
1950 7,30912.8%
1960 6,434−12.0%
1970 7,78020.9%
1980 7,573−2.7%
1990 8,68114.6%
2000 8,8662.1%
2010 9,2324.1%
2020 9,5463.4%
U.S. Decennial Census [46]
1850–2010 [47] 2010–2020 [3]

2020 census

Brewster County, Texas – Racial and ethnic composition
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 [48] Pop 2010 [49] Pop 2020 [50] % 2000% 2010% 2020
White alone (NH)4,7105,0114,94853.12%54.28%51.83%
Black or African American alone (NH)87791620.98%0.86%1.70%
Native American or Alaska Native alone (NH)6338300.71%0.41%0.31%
Asian alone (NH)2758940.30%0.63%0.98%
Pacific Islander alone (NH)25110.02%0.05%0.12%
Other race alone (NH)1011560.11%0.12%0.59%
Mixed race or Multiracial (NH)1001122821.13%1.21%2.95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race)3,8673,9183,96343.62%42.44%41.51%
Total8,8669,2329,546100.00%100.00%100.00%

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 9,546 people, 4,292 households, and 2,300 families residing in the county. As of the 2015 Texas population estimate program, the population of the county was 9,152: non-Hispanic whites, 4,934 (53.9%); non-Hispanic blacks, 76 (0.8%); other non-Hispanics, 261 (2.9%); and Hispanics and Latinos (of any race), 3,881 (42.4%). [51] Per the prior 2010 United States census, 9,232 people resided in the county; 86.6% were White, 1.1% Black or African American, 1.1% Native American, 0.7% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 7.6% of some other race and 2.8% of two or more races. About 42.4% were Hispanic or Latino (of any race).

Education

Map of Brewster County, Texas with school district boundaries Brewster Co TX School Districts.svg
Map of Brewster County, Texas with school district boundaries

These school districts serve Brewster County: [52]

In addition, Sul Ross State University is located in Alpine.

Brewster County is within the Odessa College District for community college. [54]

Communities

City

Census-designated places

Unincorporated communities

Ghost Towns

County Sheriff's Office

Media

In 1985, there was a daily subscription of, in the county: 483 for the San Angelo Standard Times , 1.1% of its total circulation; and 270 for the Odessa American , making up 0.7% of its total circulation. [55]

In 1985, KVLF-AM, in Alpine, was the only radio station licensed in Brewster County. An individual quoted in a Federal Communications Report stated that in daylight hours it was possible to get radio from Fort Stockton, Texas. [55]

Politics

Despite its substantial Hispanic population, Brewster County is Republican leaning in presidential elections, though not as strongly Republican as other rural counties in the Trans-Pecos region or West Texas. No candidate has won the county with double digit margins since George W. Bush in 2000, and the last non-Republican candidate (as of 2024) to win the county was Barack Obama in 2008. However, unlike the rest of southern Texas, the county swung towards Biden in the 2020 election, albeit by less than one percent with both candidates gaining in vote percentage.

United States presidential election results for Brewster County, Texas [56]
Year Republican Democratic Third party(ies)
No. %No. %No. %
2024 2,54555.59%1,96943.01%641.40%
2020 2,46151.04%2,25846.83%1032.14%
2016 2,07748.85%1,87344.05%3027.10%
2012 1,97651.10%1,76545.64%1263.26%
2008 1,85547.56%1,97050.51%751.92%
2004 1,98052.66%1,72945.98%511.36%
2000 1,86752.15%1,34937.68%36410.17%
1996 1,43841.66%1,64347.60%37110.75%
1992 1,12734.71%1,38342.59%73722.70%
1988 1,70851.55%1,56947.36%361.09%
1984 2,06658.28%1,46241.24%170.48%
1980 1,49651.73%1,27143.95%1254.32%
1976 1,36852.13%1,22746.76%291.11%
1972 1,52462.31%90436.96%180.74%
1968 79037.78%95845.82%34316.40%
1964 63533.65%1,25166.30%10.05%
1960 73650.51%71649.14%50.34%
1956 83763.22%47936.18%80.60%
1952 1,09664.28%60935.72%00.00%
1948 31223.27%94070.10%896.64%
1944 23719.98%86472.85%857.17%
1940 24519.63%1,00180.21%20.16%
1936 15115.39%82884.40%20.20%
1932 13012.87%87586.63%50.50%
1928 40659.36%27339.91%50.73%
1924 11322.60%36673.20%214.20%
1920 12536.02%21060.52%123.46%
1916 4316.67%20780.23%83.10%
1912 307.39%33382.02%4310.59%

In literature

Brewster County appears in the poem by Campbell McGrath, "Sunset, Route 90, Brewster County, Texas," featured in his book American Noise.

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