Worth County, Texas

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{{Infobox settlement

|unit_pref=Imperial

|name=Worth County

|settlement_type=Former U.S. county in Texas

|image_skyline=Texas proposed boundaries.svg

|imagesize=300px

|image_caption=Proposals for Texas northwestern boundary being considered in Compromise of 1850.

|established_title=Founded

|established_date=January 3, 1850

|extinct_title=Abolished

|extinct_date=November 25, 1850

|named_for=William Jenkins Worth

|seat=Valverde

}}

Worth County was a Texas county which was established by the state legislature from territory previously belonging to Santa Fe County, Texas on January 3, 1850. Val Verde (later the site of the Civil War Battle of Valverde){{cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/hps/abpp/battles/nm001.htm|title=Battle Summary: Valverde, NM|last=TGossett|website=www.nps.gov}}{{cite web|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qev01|title=VALVERDE, BATTLE OF|first=THOMPSON|last=JERRY|date=June 15, 2010|website=www.tshaonline.org}} was established as the county seat.[https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hcw81 Worth County] in the Handbook of Texas Online

Worth County was never actually organized as the territory (in large part due to local opposition of the area being considered a part of Texas{{Cite web |last=Griffin |first=Roger A. |date=June 12, 2010 |title=COMPROMISE OF 1850 |url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/nbc02 |website=www.tshaonline.org}}) and was ceded a few months later to the US Federal government on November 25, 1850, as a part of the Compromise of 1850.{{Cite web |title=Ghost Counties of Texas |url=http://www.texasescapes.com/Counties/Ghost-Counties-of-Texas.htm#worth |website=Texas Escapes}}