Anderson County, Texas#Micropolitan Statistical Area

Native Americans friendly to the settlers resided in East Texas{{cite web|title=East Texas Indian Lands|publisher=Texas Indians|url=http://www.texasindians.com/map4.htm|author=Moore, R. Edward|access-date=May 2, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100417004057/http://www.texasindians.com/map4.htm|archive-date=April 17, 2010|url-status=live}} R. E. Moore and Texarch Associates before the Kiowa, Kickapoo, Kichai, Apache, and Comanche relocated to the territory.{{cite web|title=The Passing of the Indian Era|publisher=Texas Beyond History|url=http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/forts/indians.html|access-date=May 2, 2010}} Texas Beyond History These tribes hunted, farmed the land, and were adept traders. By 1772, they had settled on the Brazos at Waco and on the Trinity upstream from present Palestine. The Tawakoni branch of Wichita Indians originated north of Texas,{{Handbook of Texas|name=Tawakoni Indians|id=bmt22|author=Krieger, Margery H.|retrieved=May 2, 2010}} Texas State Historical Association but migrated south into East Texas. From 1843 onward, the Tawakoni were part of treaties made by both the Republic of Texas and the United States.

On May 19, 1836, an alliance of Comanche, Kiowa, Caddo, and Wichita attacked Fort Parker (Limestone County), killing and taking settlers captive. The survivors escaped to Fort Houston, which had been erected in Anderson County in 1835 as protection against Indians.{{cite web|title=Fort Houston, Texas|publisher=Texas Escapes - Blueprints For Travel, LLC.|url=http://www.texasescapes.com/DEPARTMENTS/Guest_Columnists/East_Texas_all_things_historical/AlmostAHouston2BB102.htm|access-date=May 2, 2010}} Texas Escapes - Blueprints For Travel, LLC.{{Handbook of Texas|name=Fort Houston| id= uef05|author=Watts, Mrs. Harmon|retrieved=May 2, 2010}} Texas State Historical

Association Some early residents of Anderson County were related to Cynthia Ann Parker, who was among the captives.{{cite book|last=Exley|first= Jo Ella Powell|title=Frontier Blood: The Saga of the Parker Family|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PtqghbfsrPAC|publisher=Texas A&M University Press|year=2009 |isbn= 978-1-60344-109-4}}

In October 1838, Gen. Thomas Jefferson Rusk conducted a raid against hostile Indians at Kickapoo, near Frankston.{{cite web|title=Frankston, Texas|publisher=Texas Escapes - Blueprints For Travel, LLC.|url=http://www.texasescapes.com/EastTexasTowns/Frankston-Texas.htm|access-date=May 2, 2010}} Texas Escapes - Blueprints For Travel, LLC. This ended the engagements with the Indians in East Texas for that year.

In 1826, empresario David G. Burnet received a grant from the Coahuila y Tejas legislature to settle 300 families in what is now Anderson County.{{cite web|title=Empresario Contracts in the Colonization of Texas 1825-1834|publisher=Texas A & M University|url=http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/empresarios.htm|access-date=May 2, 2010| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100615055417/http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/empresarios.htm|archive-date=June 15, 2010}} Wallace L. McKeehan, Most of the settlers came from the southern states and Missouri.

Baptist leader Daniel Parker{{cite web|last1=Bowman |first1=Bob |title=The Parker Family: Daniel Parker |url=http://www.texasescapes.com/AllThingsHistorical/Parker-Family-Daniel-Parker-BB406.htm |website=Texas Escapes|access-date=May 2, 2010}} Texas Escapes - Blueprints For Travel, LLC. and eight other men organized the Pilgrim Predestinarian Regular Baptist Church in Lamotte, Illinois in 1833. This entire group migrated to the Texas frontier, arriving in Austins Colony in November 1833, and establishing Fort Parker (Limestone County) in 1834. In October 1834, in consequence of "their members were becoming scattered in a wilderness," the Church agreed to adjourn until the majority of their members settled.{{cite book |last1=Hohes |first1=Pauline Buck |title=A centennial history of Anderson County, Texas |date=1936 |publisher=Naylor Co |location=San Antonio, Tex. |page=90}}

After the Texas Revolution and the attack on Fort Parker, Daniel Parker and some of the survivors moved to Fort Houston (Anderson County).{{cite web |last1=Caraway |first1=Georgia Kemp |title=Anderson County |url=https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/anderson-county |website=Handbook of Texas Online |publisher=Texas State Historical Association |access-date=February 16, 2022}} They established a new community south of the fort.

The First Legislature of the State of Texas formed Anderson County from Houston County on March 24, 1846. The county was named for Kenneth Lewis Anderson. Palestine was named the county seat.{{cite web|title=Palestine, Texas|publisher=Texas Escapes - Blueprints For Travel, LLC.|url=http://www.texasescapes.com/TOWNS/Palestine/Palestine_Texas.htm|access-date=May 2, 2010}} Texas Escapes - Blueprints For Travel, LLC.

Anderson County voted for secession from the Union.{{cite web|title=Anderson County in the Civil War|author=Bradberry Jr, Forrest E.|publisher=Palestine Herald Press|url=http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/anderson/history/acth007.txt|access-date=May 2, 2010}} When the American Civil War began, former Palestine district judge Judge John H. Reagan{{Handbook of Texas|name=Reagan, John Henninger|id=fre02|author=Procter, Ben H.|authorlink=Ben H. Procter|retrieved=May 2, 2010}} Texas State Historical Association served in the cabinet of the Confederate government as postmaster general, being captured at the end of the war and spending 22 months in solitary confinement. During Reconstruction, District Nine Court Judge Reuben A. Reeves,{{Handbook of Texas|name=Reeves, Reuben A.|id=fre23|author=Caraway, Georgia Kemp|retrieved=May 2, 2010}} Texas State Historical Association a resident of Palestine, was removed from office as "an obstruction to Reconstruction" in part because of his refusal to allow blacks to participate as jurors in the judicial process.

In 1875, the International – Great Northern Railroad{{Handbook of Texas|name=International-Great Northern Railroad|id=eqi04|author=Werner, George C.|retrieved=May 2, 2010}} Texas State Historical Association placed its machine and repair shops and general offices in Palestine, causing the community to double in size over the next 5 years. For a time, it was a rough railroad town, dominated by male workers.

White violence against blacks occurred in the county, most frequently by lynchings of black men. But in July 1910, at least 22 blacks were killed in white rioting near Slocum, a majority-black community, in what is called the Slocum Massacre. Racial and economic tensions had been high in the post-Reconstruction era and southern states had disenfranchised blacks and imposed Jim Crow in furtherance of white supremacy.[https://eji.org/sites/default/files/lynching-in-america-third-edition-summary.pdf Lynching in America, Third Edition: Supplement by County] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171023063004/https://eji.org/sites/default/files/lynching-in-america-third-edition-summary.pdf |date=October 23, 2017 }}, p. 9, Equal Justice Initiative, Mobile AL (2017) Anderson County tied for 13th place in a list of the 25 American counties with the highest number of lynchings between 1877 and 1950 (all were located in the South).[http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-history-of-lynchings-and-racial-terror Josh Marshall, "The History of Lynching and Racial Terror"], Talking Points Memo, February 10, 2015; accessed May 15, 2018

Oral tradition in the African-American community holds that as many as 200 blacks may have been killed in the massacre. An estimated 200 whites rioted and attacked blacks on the roads, in the fields, and in Slocum on July 29–30, 1910. Many black homes were burned, and black families fled for their lives, having to abandon their property and assets. This town is about 20 miles east of the county seat at Palestine.

At the time, as was usual, white newspapers described such events as a "race riot" by blacks. Texas newspapers had contributed to problems by reporting false rumors that 200 blacks were arming. Afterward, 11 men were arrested and seven were indicted, including James Spurger, said by many to be the instigator, but no prosecution resulted. The massacre had been preceded by racial tensions, rumors, and, for 6 months, at least one lynching per month of Blacks in East Texas.[http://tpr.org/post/should-texas-remember-or-forget-slocum-massacre David Martin Davies, "Should Texas Remember Or Forget The Slocum Massacre?"], Texas Public Radio, January 16, 2015; accessed May 15, 2018

In January 2016, the state installed a highway historical marker in Slocum to recognize this unprovoked white attack on the black community.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/texas-marks-a-racial-slaughter-over-a-100-years-later/2016/01/15/fb194dd0-ba4e-11e5-99f3-184bc379b12d_story.html|title=Texas marks racial slaughter more than a century later|newspaper=The Washington Post|author=Tim Madigan|date=January 16, 2016|access-date=January 17, 2016}} It was part of a history of white violence against blacks.

In 1926, the Humble Oil and Refining Company, in partnership with the Rio Bravo Company, started an exploration drilling program along Boggy Creek, in what turned our to be the Boggy Creek salt dome. On March 19, 1927, the Elliott and Clark No. 1 encountered the Woodbine Formation at a depth of {{convert|3838|ft|m}} and produced 62 barrels of oil per hour, but showed salt water after producing only 15,000 barrels. On November 10, 1927, the Elliott and Clark No. 2, 150 feet to the west, was completed as a gas well. On February 4, 1928, the first oil-producing well in Anderson County, the Humble-Lizzie Smith No. 1, was completed, producing 80 BOPD. By May 1931, 80 wells had been drilled in the Boggy Creek Oil Field, 6 of which produced gas, 33 oil, and 41 were dry holes.{{cite web |last1=McLELLAN |first1=H.J. |last2=WENDLANDT |first2=E.A. |last3=MURCHISON |first3=E.A. |title=BOGGY CREEK SALT DOME, ANDERSON AND CHEROKEE COUNTIES, TEXAS |url=https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/aapgbull/article/16/6/584/544835/Boggy-Creek-Salt-Dome-Anderson-and-Cherokee?searchresult=1 |website=GeoScience World |publisher=AAPG |access-date=August 21, 2020 |pages=584–600 |date=1932}}{{cite web |last1=Eaton |first1=R.W. |title=Boggy Creek Field, in University of Texas Publication No. 5116: Occurrence of Oil and Gas in Northeast Texas |url=http://archives.datapages.com/data/etgs/1951/510029/510029.htm |website=AAPG Datapages |publisher=AAPG |access-date=August 21, 2020 |pages=29–34 |date=1950}}{{Handbook of Texas|name=Anderson County|id=hca01|author=Caraway, Georgia Kemp|retrieved=May 2, 2010}} Texas State Historical Association

The Fairway Oil Field was discovered in 1960, and straddles the border of Anderson and Henderson Counties. Oil is produced from the Lower Cretaceous James Limestone member of the Pearsall formation.{{cite book|last1=Terriere|first1=Robert|editor1-last=Braunstein|editor1-first=Jules|title=Geology of Fairway Field, East Texas, in North American Oil and Gas Fields|date=1976|publisher=The American Association of Petroleum Geologists|location=Tulsa|isbn=0891813004|pages=157–176}}

The Gus Engeling Wildlife Management Area was purchased by the state between 1950 and 1960,{{cite web|title=Gus Engeling Wildlife Management Area|publisher=Texas Parks and Wildlife Department|url=http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/huntwild/hunt/wma/find_a_wma/list/?id=10|access-date=May 2, 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100403084813/http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/huntwild/hunt/wma/find_a_wma/list/?id=10|archive-date=April 3, 2010| url-status=live}} much of it formerly owned by Milze L. Derden. The area was renamed in 1952 for Gus A. Engeling, the first state biologist assigned to the area who was killed by a poacher on December 13, 1951.

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Anderson County is situated at the threshold of two ecoregions, the piney woods to the east, and the East Central Texas forests, also referred to as post oak savanna to the west. The terrain of Anderson County consists of hills carved by drainages and gullies, with numerous lakes and ponds. The Trinity River flows southward along the west boundary line of the county; the Neches River flows southward along its east boundary line, and Brushy Creek flows southeastward through the central portion of the county.[https://www.google.com/maps/place/Anderson+County,+TX/@31.8237013,-95.859141,79544m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x8648673e03a35911:0x13aeab25f77d0b67!8m2!3d31.776932!4d-95.6457951 Anderson County TX Google Maps (accessed 12 February 2019)] The terrain slopes to the south and east, with its highest points along the midpoint of its northern boundary line at {{convert|551|ft|m|abbr=on}} ASL.{{Cite web |url=https://www.daftlogic.com/sandbox-google-maps-find-altitude.htm |title="Find an Altitude" Google Maps (accessed 12 February 2019) |access-date=February 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190521043409/https://www.daftlogic.com/sandbox-google-maps-find-altitude.htm |archive-date=May 21, 2019 |url-status=dead }} The county has a total area of {{convert|1078|sqmi}}, of which {{convert|1063|sqmi}} are land and {{convert|15|sqmi}} (1.4%) are covered by water.{{cite web|url=http://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/counties_list_48.txt|publisher=US Census B|access-date=April 18, 2015|date=August 22, 2012|title=2010 Census Gazetteer Files}}

The county is wholly located within area codes 430 and 903.[http://puc.texas.gov/industry/maps/areacodes/ExchangeList.aspx?ac=430 Texas Area Codes - Cities & Prefixes - Area Code 430], Public Utility Commission of Texas website, retrieved July 30, 2015.[http://puc.texas.gov/industry/maps/areacodes/ExchangeList.aspx?ac=903 Texas Area Codes - Cities & Prefixes - Area Code 903], Public Utility Commission of Texas website, retrieved July 30, 2015.

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• 20px U.S. Highway 79
• 20px U.S. Highway 84
• 25px U.S. Highway 175
• 25px U.S. Highway 287
• 20px State Highway 19
• 20px State Highway 155
• 20px State Highway 294

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• Henderson County (north)
• Cherokee County (east)
• Houston County (south)
• Leon County (southwest)
• Freestone County (west)

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• Big Lake Bottom Wildlife Management Area (part)
• Gus Engeling Wildlife Management Area
• Neches River National Wildlife Refuge (part)
• Richland Creek Wildlife Management Area (part)

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• Big Twin Lake
• Cox Lake
• Crystal Lake
• Hudson Lake
• Lake Dogwood
• Lake Frankston
• Lost Prairie Lake
• Pineywoods Lake
• Spring Lake
• Williams Lake

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• Palestine (county seat)

• Elkhart
• Frankston

• Neches

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• Alderbranch
• Bethel
• Blackfoot
• Bois d'Arc
• Bradford
• Brushy Creek
• Cayuga
• Cronin
• Crystal Lake
• Elmtown
• Elmwood
• Fosterville
• Greens Bluff
• Long Lake
• Massey Lake
• Montalba
• Mound City (partly in Houston County)
• Pert
• Salmon
• Slocum
• Springfield
• Swanson Hill Church
• Tennessee Colony
• Todd City
• Tucker
• Wells Creek
• Yard

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• Jarvis
• Wild Cat Bluff

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The population ranking of the following table is based on the 2020 census of Anderson County.{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census/decade.html|title=Decennial Census by Decades|website=The United States Census Bureau}}

† county seat

{{US Census population

|1850= 2684

|1860= 10398

|1870= 9229

|1880= 17395

|1890= 20923

|1900= 28015

|1910= 29650

|1920= 34318

|1930= 34643

|1940= 37092

|1950= 31875

|1960= 28162

|1970= 27789

|1980= 38381

|1990= 48024

|2000= 55109

|2010= 58458

|2020=57922

| estyear= 2024

| estimate= 59512

| estref = {{cite web

|url=https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/andersoncountytexas/PST045224|title=QuickFacts: Anderson County, Texas |publisher=United States Census Bureau |access-date=June 11, 2025}}

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|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census/decade.html|title=Decennial Census by Decade|website=United States Census Bureau|access-date=}}
1850–1900{{Cite web|title= 1900 Census of Population - Population of Texas By Counties And Minor Civil Divisions |url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1900/bulletins/demographic/49-population-tx.pdf|website=United States Census Bureau}} 1910{{Cite web|title= 1910 Census of Population - Supplement for Texas |url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1910/abstract/supplement-tx-p1.pdf|website=United States Census Bureau}}
1920{{Cite web|title= 1920 Census of Population - Number of Inhabitants - Texas |url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1920/bulletins/demographics/population-tx-number-of-inhabitants.pdf|website=United States Census Bureau}} 1930{{Cite web|title= 1930 Census of Population - Number of Inhabitants - Texas |url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1930/population-volume-1/03815512v1ch10.pdf|website=United States Census Bureau}} 1940{{Cite web|title= 1940 Census of Population - Number of Inhabitants - Texas |url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1940/population-volume-1/33973538v1ch09.pdf|website=United States Census Bureau}}

1950{{Cite web|title= 1950 Census of Population - Number of Inhabitants - Texas |url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1950/population-volume-1/vol-01-46.pdf|website=United States Census Bureau}} 1960{{Cite web|title= 1960 Census of Population - Number of Inhabitants - Texas |url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1960/population-volume-1/33255142v1p45ch02.pdf|website=United States Census Bureau}} 1970{{Cite web|title= 1970 Census of Population - Number of Inhabitants - Texas |url=https://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/00496492v1p45s1ch02.pdf|website=United States Census Bureau}}
1980{{Cite web|title= 1980 Census of Population - Number of Inhabitants - Texas |url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1980/volume-1/texas/1980a_txab-01.pdf|website=United States Census Bureau}} 1990{{Cite web|title=1990 Census of Population - Population and Housing Unit Counts - Texas |url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1990/cph-2/cph-2-45.pdf|website=United States Census Bureau}} 2000{{Cite web|title=2000 Census of Population - Population and Housing Unit Counts - Texas |url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/2003/dec/phc-3-45.pdf|website=United States Census Bureau}}
2010{{Cite web|title=2010 Census of Population - Population and Housing Unit Counts - Texas |url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/2010/cph-2/cph-2-45.pdf|website=United States Census Bureau}} 2020

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From its initial population of 2,684 in 1850, Anderson County's population increased to 55,109 people at the 2000 U.S. census.{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov|publisher=US Census Bureau|access-date=May 14, 2011|title=U.S. Census website}} By the publication of the 2020 United States census, its population further grew to 57,922, though the 2020 tabulation is a decline of negative 0.9% from 2010's 58,458 residents at the 2010 U.S. census.

Among the growing population of Anderson county, its racial and ethnic makeup has remained predominantly non-Hispanic or non-Latino white, although its Hispanic and Latino American population of any race increased to consist of more than 11,000 residents as of 2020; the increase in Hispanic and Latino American residency reflected nationwide trends of diversification since the 2020 census.{{Cite web |last=Frey |first=William H. |date=August 13, 2021 |title=New 2020 census results show increased diversity countering decade-long declines in America's white and youth populations |url=https://www.brookings.edu/research/new-2020-census-results-show-increased-diversity-countering-decade-long-declines-in-americas-white-and-youth-populations/ |access-date=April 13, 2022 |website=Brookings |language=en-US}}{{Cite news |last1=Tavernise |first1=Sabrina |last2=Gebeloff |first2=Robert |date=August 12, 2021 |title=Census Shows Sharply Growing Numbers of Hispanic, Asian and Multiracial Americans |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/12/us/us-census-population-growth-diversity.html |access-date=April 13, 2022 |issn=0362-4331}} Of note, its African American communities have remained relatively the same, though experiencing a slight decline; multiracial Americans have increased to 2.73% of the population.

Consisting of 16,555 households according to the 2020 American Community Survey's 5-year estimates,{{Cite web |title=Geography Profile: Anderson County, Texas |url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/profile?g=0500000US48001 |access-date=April 13, 2022 |website=data.census.gov}} there was a homeownership rate of 71.5%. Among the population, the median gross rent was $829 against the statewide median of $1,082.{{Cite web |title=2020 Selected Housing Characteristics |url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?g=0500000US48001&tid=ACSDP5Y2020.DP04 |access-date=April 13, 2022 |website=data.census.gov}} The median value of an owner-occupied housing unit was $110,000, and the median mortgage was $1,102; housing units without a mortgage had a median monthly cost of $441.{{when|date=September 2022}} In 2000, there were 15,678 households, 34.10% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 55.50% were married couples living together, 13.20% had a female householder with no husband present, and 27.70% were not families. About 24.80% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.80% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.{{when|date=September 2022}}

In 2000, the median income for a household in the county was $31,957, and for a family was $37,513. Males had a median income of $27,070 versus $21,577 for females. The per capita income for the county was $13,838. About 12.70% of families and 16.50% of the population were below the poverty line, including 21.60% of those under age 18 and 16.60% of those age 65 or over. In 2020, its median household income grew to $45,847 and 14.1% of the population lived at or below the poverty line. The impoverished communities in Anderson County consisted of 21.5% of residents under the age of 18, and 9.9% were aged 65 and older.

Anderson County is governed by a commissioners' court. It consists of the county judge, who is elected at-large and presides over the full court, and four commissioners, who are elected from the county's four single-member precincts.{{Cite web|url=http://www.co.anderson.tx.us/default.aspx?Anderson_County/Home|title=www.co.anderson.tx.us/default.aspx?Anderson_County/Home|website=www.co.anderson.tx.us|language=en|access-date=January 23, 2018}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.txdirectory.com/online/county/detail.php?id=1|title=Counties: Anderson - Texas State Directory Online|website=www.txdirectory.com|language=en|access-date=January 23, 2018}}

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice operates state prisons for men in the county. The prisons Beto, Coffield, Michael, and Powledge units and the Gurney Unit transfer facility are located in an unincorporated area {{convert|7|mi|km}} west of Palestine.[http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/unitdirectory/b2.htm Powledge Unit] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100725201406/http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/unitdirectory/b2.htm|date=July 25, 2010}}. Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Retrieved May 13, 2010. The Beto Unit has the Correctional Institutions Division Region II maintenance headquarters.[http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/unitdirectory/b.htm Beto Unit] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100725200918/http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/unitdirectory/b.htm|date=July 25, 2010}}. Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Retrieved June 5, 2010.

Jeff Doran, a Republican, is the judge of the county court at law.

Anderson is a strongly Republican county, voting Republican in every election since 1980 (as of 2020). The county last voted Democratic in 1976, when Jimmy Carter won 57% of the county's votes. Hillary Clinton managed to win just 19.8% of the vote in the county, the least of any presidential candidate since 1944.

{{PresHead|place=Anderson County, Texas|source={{cite web|url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS|title=Atlas of US Presidential Elections|last=Leip|first=David|website=uselectionatlas.org|access-date=July 19, 2018}}}}

{{PresRow|2024|Republican|15,597|3,635|149|Texas}}

{{PresRow|2020|Republican|15,110|3,955|162|Texas}}

{{PresRow|2016|Republican|13,201|3,369|407|Texas}}

{{PresRow|2012|Republican|12,262|3,813|137|Texas}}

{{PresRow|2008|Republican|11,884|4,630|141|Texas}}

{{PresRow|2004|Republican|11,525|4,678|98|Texas}}

{{PresRow|2000|Republican|9,835|5,041|204|Texas}}

{{PresRow|1996|Republican|6,458|5,693|1,249|Texas}}

{{PresRow|1992|Republican|5,598|5,322|3,546|Texas}}

{{PresRow|1988|Republican|7,858|6,128|59|Texas}}

{{PresRow|1984|Republican|8,634|4,747|42|Texas}}

{{PresRow|1980|Republican|5,970|5,163|197|Texas}}

{{PresRow|1976|Democratic|4,172|5,499|44|Texas}}

{{PresRow|1972|Republican|5,826|2,233|6|Texas}}

{{PresRow|1968|Democratic|2,828|3,447|3,196|Texas}}

{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|3,362|4,809|10|Texas}}

{{PresRow|1960|Republican|3,642|3,296|44|Texas}}

{{PresRow|1956|Republican|4,181|2,710|23|Texas}}

{{PresRow|1952|Republican|4,637|3,462|10|Texas}}

{{PresRow|1948|Democratic|1,199|3,242|757|Texas}}

{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|467|4,342|665|Texas}}

{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|688|5,281|7|Texas}}

{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|289|3,749|2|Texas}}

{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|259|4,354|14|Texas}}

{{PresRow|1928|Republican|1,814|1,747|0|Texas}}

{{PresRow|1924|Republican|562|374|255|Texas}}

{{PresRow|1920|Democratic|323|2,355|1,248|Texas}}

{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|501|1,984|192|Texas}}

{{PresFoot|1912|Democratic|444|1,737|110|Texas}}

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{{U.S. SenRow|2024|Republican|15,022|3,872|322|Texas}}

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These school districts serve areas in Anderson County:

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• Athens Independent School District (partial)
• Cayuga Independent School District
• Elkhart Independent School District (partial)
• Frankston Independent School District (partial)
• La Poynor Independent School District (partial)
• Neches Independent School District
• Palestine Independent School District
• Slocum Independent School District
• Westwood Independent School District

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Anderson County is part of the Dallas/Fort Worth DMA. Local TV media outlets include: KDFW-TV, KXAS-TV, WFAA-TV, KTVT-TV, KERA-TV, KTXA-TV, KDFI-TV, and KDAF-TV. Other nearby TV stations that provide coverage for Anderson County come from the Tyler/Longview/Jacksonville market and they include: KLTV, KTRE-TV, KYTX-TV, KFXK-TV, and KETK-TV.

Newspapers serving Anderson County include the Palestine Herald-Press in Palestine and the weekly online Frankston Citizen in Frankston.

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• National Register of Historic Places listings in Anderson County, Texas
• Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks in Anderson County
• East Texas Oil Field
• :Category:People from Anderson County, Texas
• List of counties in Texas

• E.R. Bills wrote The 1910 Slocum Massacre: An Act of Genocide in East Texas (2014) about white mobs rioting and killing at least 22 blacks in Anderson County in July 1910, and driving off hundreds more.

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• [http://www.co.anderson.tx.us/ Anderson County government]
• {{Handbook of Texas|id=hca01|name=Anderson County, Texas}}
• [http://texasalmanac.com/topics/government/anderson-county Anderson County] from the Texas Almanac
• [http://www.rootsweb.com/~txanders Anderson County] from the TXGenWeb Project
• [http://anderson.agrilife.org/ Anderson County] Agrilife extension profile at Texas A&M University
• [http://texashistory.unt.edu/search/?q=%22United+States+-+Texas+-+Anderson+County%22&t=dc.coverage&o=&system=PTH&start=0&pageSize=24&sort=default&view=grid View historic Anderson County materials], hosted by the [http://texashistory.unt.edu/ Portal to Texas History]

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|North = Henderson County

|East = Cherokee County

|South = Houston County

|Southwest = Leon County

|West = Freestone County

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