Fisher County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 3,672. The county seat is Roby. The county was created in 1876 and later organized in 1886. It is named for Samuel Rhoads Fisher, a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence and a secretary of the navy of the Republic of Texas. Fisher County was one of 30 prohibition, or entirely dry, counties in Texas, but is now a fully wet county.
History
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- 10000 BC - Paleo-Indians were the first inhabitants. Later Native American inhabitants include the Pawnee, Wichita and Waco, Lipan Apache, Kiowa, and Comanche.
- 1876 - The Texas legislature formed Fisher County from Bexar districts. The new county was named after Samuel Rhoads Fisher.
- 1885 - The town of Fisher was registered. Swedish immigrants founded the community of Swedonia.
- 1886 - The town of North Roby was registered. Roby eventually won the county seat election over Fisher, but one of the voters, a Mr. Bill Purp, was later discovered to have been actually a dog whose owner lived near Roby.
- 1920 - Fisher County was among Texas leaders in wheat production.
Major highways
- 25px U.S. Highway 180
- 20px State Highway 70
- 20px State Highway 92
Adjacent counties
- Stonewall County (north)
- Jones County (east)
- Taylor County (southeast)
- Nolan County (south)
- Mitchell County (southwest)
- Scurry County (west)
- Kent County (northwest)