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5 unusual facts about El Paso County


El Paso Independent School District

Originally organized in 1883, it is currently the largest district in the Texas Education Agency's Educational Service Center (ESC) Region 19, as well as the largest district within the city of El Paso and El Paso County.

Francis S. Thayer

Francis Samuel Thayer (September 11, 1822 Dummerston, Windham County, Vermont – November 26, 1880 Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado) was an American merchant and politician from New York.

M. F. Bowers

M.F. Bowers was sheriff of El Paso County, Colorado from 1894 to 1896.

Maxey Scherr

Scherr is an appointee to the El Paso County Ethics Commission and works on numerous non-profit and political endeavors.

Socorro Independent School District

The Socorro Independent School District or SISD is a school district located in El Paso County, Texas.


Dallas Stoudenmire

El Paso County Constable Gus Krempkau was asked by the Mexican leader to lead them to a possible location.

Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight

Gus Krempkau, an El Paso County Constable, accompanied the posse to the ranch of Johnny Hale, a local ranch owner and suspected cattle rustler, who lived some 13 miles northwest of El Paso in the Upper Valley.

Green Mountain Falls, Colorado

Green Mountain Falls is a Statutory Town in El Paso and Teller counties in the U.S. state of Colorado.

Interstate 25

The section in El Paso County is named the Ronald Reagan Highway, and through Pueblo it is named the John F. Kennedy Memorial Highway.

Mary Gonzalez

She is a Democrat who was elected in November 2012 to represent an area that includes east El Paso County, parts of the city of El Paso and the towns of Socorro, Clint, Fabens, Horizon City, San Elizario and Tornillo.

Mike Berniker

While serving at Fort Bliss in El Paso County, Texas while in the United States Army for two years, he hosted a local radio show and organized a jazz festival.

Panthea apanthea

It is known only from three areas in the south-western United States, Coconino County and Apache County (White Mountains) in Arizona, and El Paso County in east-central Colorado.

San Pedro and Southwestern Railroad

On June 17, 1902, the Arizona & Southeastern was sold to the El Paso and Southwestern Railroad (EP&SW) and the line was extended through Douglas to El Paso.

Teller County, Colorado

A few years after gold was discovered in Cripple Creek, political differences between area miners and mine owners, many of whom lived in Colorado Springs, resulted in the division of El Paso County.


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Anthony Cobos

The most prominent among them was Barbara Perez, a former El Paso County Commissioner and trustee of Socorro Independent School District in El Paso.

Mills Building

Anson Mills Building, El Paso, Texas, listed as Mills Building on the NRHP in El Paso County, Texas