Kent County

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Kent County is a sparsely populated rural county in West Texas known for its ranching landscape and small communities.

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Label Occurrences
Kent County canonical 4

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Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf administrative territorial entity
county
climateType semi-arid
contains Kent County Courthouse
country United States of America
countrySubdivisionCategory county of Texas
countySeat Jayton
FIPSCode 48263
GNISID 1378610
governingBody Kent County Board of Commissioners
surface form: Kent County Commissioners Court
hasAreaCharacteristic predominantly rural land
hasBorderWith Dickens County
Fisher County
Garza County
King County
Scurry County
Stonewall County
hasEconomicSector livestock production
hasLandUse cropland
pastureland
rangeland
hasLowPopulationDensity true
hasPrimaryEconomicActivity cattle ranching
farming
hasSettlementType unincorporated communities
hasTransportationType farm-to-market roads
hasUnincorporatedCommunity Clairemont
Dumont
Girard
Jayton
isInCountrySubdivision West Texas
surface form: West Texas region
isLandlocked true
isRural true
isSparselyPopulated true
knownFor agriculture
ranching
landscapeType ranching landscape
largestSettlement Jayton
locatedIn Texas
West Texas
locatedInCensusRegion West Texas
locatedInPhysiographicRegion Llano Estacado vicinity
namedAfter Andrew Kent
partOf Texas
surface form: State of Texas
regionType rural county
state Texas
timeZone Central Time Zone
timeZoneDST Central Time Zone
surface form: Central Daylight Time

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Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Texas Panhandle hasCounty Kent County
Dickens County borderedByCounty Kent County
Crosby County borders Kent County
Garza County hasBorderWith Kent County