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In 1845 voters in the future Dallas County approved the annexation of Texas to the United States by a vote of 29 to 3. On March 30, 1846, Dallas County was officially formed by order of the state legislature from portions of Nacogdoches and Robertson counties, and named probably for George Mifflin Dallas, vice president of the United States under James K. Polk . At Dallas, the temporary county seat, a log cabin was built to serve as a courthouse. In 1850 an election was held to find a permanent county seat.   In 1861, since Dallas County was the food-producing center for North Texas, the Confederate government established a general quartermaster's and commissary headquarters for the army of the Trans-Mississippi Department there.           Throughout its history Dallas County had a vigorous Hispanic population, but it was difficult to detect in official records because until the 1960s Mexican Americans were listed as white in the census and were not enumerated as a separate group. Cities and Towns Addison Balch Springs Cedar Hill Carrollton Cockrell Hill Combine Coppell Dallas DeSoto Duncanville Farmers Branch Ferris Garland Glenn Heights Grand Prairie Grapevine Highland Park Hutchins Irving Lancaster Lewisville Mesquite Ovilla Richardson Rowlett Sachse Seagoville Sunnyvale University Park Wilmer Wylie

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