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Dimmit County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas . As of the 2010 census , its population was 9,996. It is named for Philip Dimmitt , a major figure in the Texas Revolution . The reason the county name differs is because the bill creating the county misspelled Dimmitt's name. The same situation resulted in the 19th century in Kearney, Nebraska , when that community was named for Mexican War General Stephen W. Kearny . The seat of the county is Carrizo Springs . The county was founded in 1858.
Native Americans Paleo-Indians artifacts indicate these people lived in Dimmit County as far back as 9200 B.C. Archaic period up to the arrival of the Spanish brought increased hunter-gatherers to the area. These Indians subsisted mostly on game, wild fruits, seeds, and roots. They carved tools from wood and stone, wove baskets, and sewed rabbitskin robes, made pottery and hunted with bows and arrows. Their most effective weapon was the atlatl , a throwing stick that greatly increased the deadliness of their spears. Coahuiltecan Indians native to Dimmit County were later squeezed out by Apache and Comanche . Hostile tribes harassed settlers, forcing some to pull up stakes. Texas Rangers and local volunteers, as well as disease, ran the Indians out of the county by 1877. The Wild Horse Desert The area between the Rio Grande and the Nueces River , which included Zavala County, became disputed territory known as the Wild Horse Desert, where neither the Republic of Texas nor the Mexican government had clear control.
