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Government Administration501-1000 Employees
Potter County is one of 254 counties in the state of Texas. It was organized in 1876 when the area was still uninhabited and before H.B. Sanborn and Joseph Glidden fenced 250,000 acres for the Frying Pan ranch. The county seat was formed in 1887 when about sixty cowboys were given lots in Oneida (Amarillo) where the Fort Worth & Denver and the Santa Fe Railways met, thereby making them property owners and partisans in the county seat election.