Burnet County is a county A county is a land area of local government within a country. A county may have cities and towns within its area. Originally, in continental Europe, a county was the land under the jurisdiction of a count (comte, conde, Graf) located in the U.S. state A U.S. state is any one of 50 federated states of the United States of America that share sovereignty with the federal government. Four states use the official title of commonwealth rather than state. Because of this shared sovereignty, an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of domicile. State citizenship is of Texas Texas ( /ˈtɛksəs/ ) is the second-largest U.S. state in both area and population, and the largest state in the contiguous United States. The name had wide usage among native Americans, meaning "friends" or "allies". Located in the South Central United States, Texas is bordered by Mexico to the south, New Mexico to the west,. As of 2000, the population was 34,147. Its county seat A county seat is a term for an administrative center for a county or civil parish, primarily used in the United States. In the Northeast United States, the statutory term often is shire town, but colloquially county seat is the term in use there. Parts of the Canadian Maritimes also use the term shire town. In England, Wales and Ireland, the term is Burnet Burnet is a city in and the county seat of Burnet County, Texas, United States. The population was 4,735 at the 2000 census[1]. Burnet is named for David Gouverneur Burnet, the first (provisional) president of the Republic of Texas The Republic of Texas was an independent state in North America, bordering the United States and Mexico, that existed from 1836 to 1846.
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