Hunt County has eight neighbors and blackland underfoot

The first legislature of the new State of Texas created Hunt County in 1846 and named it for Memucan Hunt, who had served the Republic of Texas as minister to the United States. Greenville became the county seat.

The shape on the map has its own bit of personality. Texas A&M AgriLife says Hunt touches eight other counties, more than any other county in the state. Under that busy set of borders lies the rich blackland soil that first drew farming and later fed Greenville's cotton story. The county's city-and-country mix starts with that geography.