The County Is Named for an Alamo Defender

Texas organized Cochran County from Bexar and Young County land in 1876. It was named to honor Robert Cochran, one of the men who died at the Alamo. The county had almost no permanent settlers for decades after it was created.

The county seat, Morton, was laid out in the early 1920s. It won a vote over a rival town called Ligon to become the seat in 1924. Morton has stayed small. Today the county has only a few thousand residents spread across 775 square miles.