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Collingsworth is named for Judge James Collinsworth, a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence and first chief justice of the Republic of Texas in 1836. The reason the county's name is spelled differently is because the bill creating the county misspelled Collinsworth's name. Collingsworth County is one of 46 prohibition, or entirely dry, counties in the state of Texas. Its seat is Wellington.
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Collingsworth County was created in 1876 and organized September 30, 1890. Its population in 1880 was only 6, and 357 in 1890. In 1900 the census reported 1,233 inhabitants, and 5,224 in 1910. For railroad facilities the county depended upon the Fort Worth & Denver City on one side and the Rock Island Line on the north until about 1911, when the "Wichita Valley & Northwestern was completed from Altus, Oklahoma, to Wellington, the present terminus. Wellington, the county seat, had a population in 1910 of 576. There are several rural villages, including Aberdeen, Plymouth, Rolla, Clifford and others.
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