Lamar County

Lamar County is the name of several counties in the United States:

Lamar County, Texas

Lamar County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, its population was 49,793. Its county seat is Paris. The county was formed by the Congress of the Republic of Texas on December 17, 1840 and organized the next year. It is named for Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, the second president of Texas.

Lamar County comprises the Paris, TX Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Lamar County, once heavily Democratic, is now represented in the Texas House of Representatives by the Republican Erwin Cain of Sulphur Springs, Texas. Republican Representative Marsha Farney, reared in Lamar County, represents District 20, which includes the northern portion of Williamson County in the Austin suburbs.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 933 square miles (2,420 km²), of which 907 square miles (2,350 km²) is land and 926 square miles (2,400 km²) (2.8%) is water.

Major highways

U.S. Highway 82

U.S. Highway 271

State Highway 19

State Highway 24