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La Salle County

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La Salle County, Texas

PO Box 340
Cotulla, TX 78014
Phone: (830) 879-3033
Fax: (830) 879-2933
www.lasallecountytx.org

In southern TX, northeast of Laredo; organized Feb 1, 1858 from Bexar and Webb counties. Name Origin: For Robert Cavelier (1643-87), Sieur de La Salle, French adventurer and explorer who claimed the land west of the Mississippi River for France

Area (sq mi):: 1494.23 (land 1488.85; water 5.38) Population per square mile: 4.00
Population 2005: 6,016 State rank: 196 Population change: 2000-20005 2.60%; 1990-2000 11.60% Population 2000: 5,866 (White 19.00%; Black or African American 3.50%; Hispanic or Latino 77.10%; Asian 0.30%; Other 14.60%). Foreign born: 4.00%. Median age: 33.00
Income 2000: per capita $9,692; median household $21,857; Population below poverty level: 29.80% Personal per capita income (2000-2003): $14,182-$15,917
Unemployment (2004): 6.90% Unemployment change (from 2000): 0.70% Median travel time to work: 28.80 minutes Working outside county of residence: 28.20%
Cities with population over 10,000: None
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References in periodicals archive
LA SALLE The NewsTribune in La Salle County and other publications are being sold to another Illinois media company.
NextEra Energy Partners' existing EFM system is an approximately 150-mile, 30-inch and 16-inch lean gas transportation pipeline originating in La Salle County, spanning portions of McMullen, Duval, Jim Wells, and Nueces counties, and terminating at the Agua Dulce hub in Nueces County.
The Carnero Gathering System will ultimately connect to a cryogenic natural gas processing plant that is presently under construction in La Salle County, Texas, owned by another joint venture between Sanchez Energy and Targa.
The Valley Wells gathering system is located in the Eagle Ford Shale area in La Salle County and services production from EP Energy.
The Eagle Ford JV Pipeline system is a 50/50 joint venture between Plains and Enterprise that delivers crude oil and condensate via pipeline from Gardendale in La Salle County, TX to the Three Rivers and Corpus Christi refineries and to other markets via marine transport facilities at Corpus Christi.
The new shale play is located in La Salle County, Texas, and is southwest of San Antonio.
gularis (= Aspidoscelis gularis): Catarina, Dimmit County, and Encinal and Artesia Wells, La Salle County, Texas were studied.
But the real story had played itself out over the previous three years--and it wasn't so much about environmental malaise as about shady deals, political horse-trading, and a deeply unsavory power grab by a series of private companies and middlemen looking to make a quick buck from the economic misery of Encinal--a town of 600 people 40 miles north of Laredo--and surrounding La Salle County. It's a salient warning of the problems this kind of business generates, as Texas now debates bills that would essentially allow the wholesale privatization of its enormous prison system, and as the federal government touts the benefits of privately run federal facilities.
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