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Gillespie County

Gillespie County is a county located on the Edwards Plateau in the U.S. state of Texas. Gillespie county is prominent in the Texas German belt region, a region settled by German emigrants in the 1800s. As of the 2020 census, its population was 26,725. Gillespie County comprises the Fredericksburg, TX Micropolitan Statistical Area. The county seat is Fredericksburg. It is located in the heart of the rural Texas Hill Country in Central Texas. Gillespie is named for Robert Addison Gillespie, a soldier in the Mexican–American War.

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City of Fredericksburg pop. 11,072

Reference data (Census of Governments 2022)

Census ID (PID6): 209534
FIPS state: 48
FIPS county: 171
FIPS place: 99171
Census record name: COUNTY OF GILLESPIE
Mailing address: 101 W MAIN ST, FREDERICKSBURG 78624