Crockett County

The Handbook of Texas says Live Oak Spring and Cedar Springs drew prehistoric people, among them the long-term inhabitants of Gobbler Shelter on a tributary of Live Oak Creek. Gaspar Castaño de Sosa's party of 170 men, women and children is thought to have crossed the county in 1590. Lipan Apache and Tonkawa people lived here, and Comanches (Numunuu) moved in during the eighteenth century. The county formed in 1875 took in the future Sutton and Schleicher counties and was attached to Kinney County for courts; it reached its present size in 1887.

What the plaque says

Formed from Bexar Territory Created January 22, 1875 Organized July 7, 1891. Named in honor of David Crockett 1786-1836. Member of the United States Congress from Tennessee Killed at the Alamo Ozona, County Seat.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Crockett County Museum — steps away
  Three floors of ranch-country history in Ozona, the only town in Crockett County, housed in a burned-out 1926 church rebuilt as a hospital and courthouse annex.
• Caverns of Sonora — 25 mi
  A show cave on a Sutton County ranch, opened in 1960 by cavers who wanted to stop the damage, and dense with helictites that grow sideways in every direction.

More markers nearby

• Fort Lancaster, C.S.A. — steps away
• Ozona Stockman, The — steps away
• Ozona's First Water Well — steps away
• Ozona's Water System — 0.3 mi