Anderson, Cherokee, Freestone, Harrison, Houston, Leon, Madison, Panola, Robertson, Rusk, and Trinity, the East Texas fairway where the Haynesville, Cotton Valley, and Deep Bossier formations sit beneath pine forests, post oak savanna, and river bottomlands two centuries deep in Anglo and Spanish history.
Seat: Palestine · Frankston, Elkhart. The Texas State Railroad runs through the pine forest; the Neches River runs through the eastern third.
Seat: Rusk · Jacksonville, Alto, Wells. Named for the Cherokee bands led by Chief Bowles who farmed the region before 1839; iron ore, tomatoes, and timber country.
Seat: Fairfield · Teague, Wortham. Historically dense in oil and gas activity since the 1924 Wortham boom.
Seat: Marshall · Hallsville, Waskom, Elysian Fields, Karnack. Bounded by the Sabine River and Caddo Lake atop the core Haynesville Shale gas play.
Seat: Crockett · Grapeland, Lovelady, Kennard. The oldest county in Texas, created by the First Congress of the Republic in 1837; Davy Crockett National Forest covers much of its southern half.
Seat: Centerville · Buffalo, Jewett, Marquez. The I‑45 corridor between Houston and Dallas, with Lake Limestone on its eastern shore.
Seat: Madisonville · Midway, Normangee. El Camino Real de los Tejas crosses the Trinity here; post oak savanna and cattle country sit between three river basins.
Seat: Carthage · Beckville, DeBerry, Gary, Clayton. Home of the giant Carthage Gas Field and stacked Cotton Valley and Haynesville production along the Sabine River.
Seat: Franklin · Calvert, Hearne, Bremond. Calvert was once the fourth‑largest city in Texas; the Brazos bottomlands run its eastern boundary.
Seat: Henderson · Kilgore, Tatum, Overton, Joinerville. Site of the 1930 Daisy Bradford No. 3 discovery and multi-county horizontal gas units reaching the Sabine River.
Seat: Groveton · Trinity, Apple Springs. Bounded west by the Trinity River and east by the Neches; Davy Crockett National Forest covers much of the county.
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