Talk:Scouting in Texas

Circle Ten Council
The list of counties should be lined up to the districts they cover. Chris 00:34, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Too much information that is not encyclopedic
Way too much detail for an encyclopedia article. Needs to be slimmed down and merged. Most of it is of questionable importance. See WP:NOT. Wikipedia is not a list or catalogue of everything. Timmy12 12:57, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Historical council information to be folded in
Historical council information to be folded in -Kintetsubuffalo (talk • contribs) 12:02, 22 September 2006
 * Texas Rosenberg 1913
 * Texas Midland 1913 1914
 * Texas Waco 1915 1919
 * Texas Bay City 1918 1920
 * Texas Nacogdoches 1919 1920
 * Texas Cleburne 1921
 * Texas Terrell 1921
 * Texas Corpus Christi 1917 1923
 * Texas 575 Kingsville 1918 1924 ended 1924
 * Texas 577 Mount Pleasant 1920 1924
 * Texas 579 Wellington 1922 1924 ended 1924
 * Texas Brownwood 1921 1924
 * Texas 566 Brazos Valley 1924 1926 ended 1926
 * a Texas 585 Tyler 1922 1924 changed name to Kickapoo 585 1924
 * b Texas 585 Kickapoo 1924 1926 ended 1926
 * Texas 586 Waxahachie 1920 1927 disbanded 1927
 * a Texas 680 Guadalupe Valley Area 1924 1928 Tonqua Area 547 1928
 * b Texas 547 Tonqua Area 1928 1932 ended 1932
 * a Texas 569 Lone Star Area 1927 1928 part merged into Grayson County 568 1928
 * b Texas 568 Grayson County 1924 1930 changed name to T-O 568 1930
 * c Texas 568 T-O 1930 1936 dissolved 1936
 * Texas 580 Lone Star 1929 1954
 * Texas 479 Brownwood 1927 1928 changed name to Pecan Valley 479 1928
 * Texas 774 Eastland County 1927 1929 changed name to Oil Belt 774 1929
 * Texas 479 Pecan Valley 1928 1932 merged into Comanche Trail 479 1932
 * Texas 774 Oil Belt 1929 1932 merged into Comanche Trail 479 1932
 * Texas 479 Comanche Trail 1932 http://www.bwoodtx.com/bsa
 * Texas 561 Abilene 1922 1926 changed name to Chisholm Trail 561 1926
 * Texas 561 Chisholm Trail 1926
 * Texas 562 Amarillo 1921 1924 changed name to Panhandle Area 562 1924
 * Texas 562 Panhandle Area 1925 1928 changed name to Amarillo Area 562 1928
 * Oklahoma 489 Tex-Okla 1928 1931 merged into Adobe Walls 569 1931
 * Texas 563 Southeast Panhandle 1928 1931 merged into Adobe Walls 569 1931
 * Texas 569 Adobe Walls 1928 1934 changed name to Adobe Walls Area 569 1934
 * Texas 562 Amarillo Area 1928 1939 changed name to Llano Estacado 652 1939
 * Texas 562 Llano Estacado 1939 1986 merged into Golden Spread 562 1986
 * Texas 569 Adobe Walls Area 1934 1986 merged into Golden Spread 562 1986
 * Texas 562 Golden Spread 1986
 * Texas 564 Austin 1912 1924 changed name to Austin-Travis County 564 1924
 * Texas 563 Arrowhead 1924 1928 1/2 merged into Austin Area 564 1928
 * Texas 564 Austin-Travis County 1924 1928 changed name to Austin Area 564 1928
 * Texas 564 Austin Area 1928 1934 changed name to Capital Area 564 1934
 * Texas 564 Capitol Area 1934 http://www.bsa-austin.org/
 * Texas 567 Buffalo Trail 1923
 * Texas 571 Dallas 1915 1926 changed name to Dallas County 571 1926
 * Texas 676 Navarro County 1924 1927 merged into Circle Ten 571 1927
 * Texas 569 Lone Star Area 1927 1928 part merged into Circle Ten 571 1928
 * Texas 571 Dallas County 1926 1928 merged into Circle Ten 571 1928
 * Texas 566 Sherman 1933 1941 changed name to Sherman Area 566 1941
 * Texas 563 Red River Valley 1940 1947 merged into Circle Ten 571 1947
 * Texas 566 Sherman Area 1941 1966 changed name to Texoma Valley 566 1966
 * Texas 566 Texoma Valley 1966 1993 July 1 changed name to Circle Ten 571 1993 July 1
 * Texas 571 Circle Ten 1928
 * Texas 573 El Paso 1915 1924 changed name to El Paso County 573 1924
 * Texas 573 El Paso County 1924 1928 changed name to El Paso Area 573 1928
 * New Mexico 579 Gila Grande 1927 1930 merged into El Paso Area 573 Texas 1930
 * Texas 573 El Paso Area 1928 1937 changed name to Yucca 573 1937
 * Texas 573 Yucca 1937
 * Texas 574 Galveston 1919 1925 changed name to Galveston County 574 1925
 * Texas 574 Galveston County 1925 1937 changed name to Bay Area 574 1937
 * Texas 574 Bay Area 1937
 * Texas 576 Houston 1913 1923 changed name to Harris County 576 1923
 * Texas 673 Falls-Milam-Robertson Area 1924 1926 1/2 merged into Harris County 576 1926
 * Texas 576 Harris County 1923 1927 changed name to Houston Area 576 1927
 * Texas 576 Houston Area 1927 1936 changed name to Sam Houston Area 576 1936
 * Texas 576 Sam Houston Area 1936 http://www.samhoustonbsa.org/
 * Texas Laredo 1920 1922 merged into Webb County 700 1922
 * Texas Webb County 1922 1923 merged into Webb County 700 1923
 * Texas 700 Webb County 1925 1927 changed name to Aztec 700 1927
 * Texas 577 Nueces Valley 1924 1929 merged into Gulf Coast 577 1929
 * Texas 700 Aztec 1927 1933 merged into Gulf Coast 577 1933
 * Texas 577 Gulf Coast 1929
 * Texas 578 Orange County 1921 1929 merged into Sabine Area 578 1929
 * Texas 581 Port Arthur 1919 1929 merged into Sabine Area 578 1929
 * Texas 565 Beaumont 1919 1934 changed name to Beaumont Area 565 1934
 * Texas 565 Beaumont Area 1934 1942 changed name to Trinity-Neches 565 1942
 * Texas 565 Trinity-Neches 1942 1970 merged into Three Rivers 578 1970
 * Texas 578 Sabine Area 1929 1970 merged into Three Rivers 578 1970
 * Texas 578 Three Rivers 1970
 * Texas 580 Paris 1918 1925 changed name to Lamar County 580 1925
 * Texas 569 Collin County 1923 1927 merged into Lone Star Area 580 1927
 * Texas 569 Lone Star Area 1927 1928 part merged into Lone Star Area 580 1928
 * Texas 580 Lamar County 1925 1928 merged into Lone Star Area 580 1928
 * Texas 580 Lone Star Area 1928 1955 changed name to NeTSeO Trails 580 1955
 * Texas 580 NeTSeO Trails 1955
 * Texas 582 Fort Worth 1920 1922 changed name to Tarrant County 582 1922
 * Texas 570 Cooke County 1921 1924 merged into Mo-Co-Wi-De 572 1924
 * Texas Denton 1921 1924 merged into Mo-Co-Wi-De 572 1924
 * Texas 572 Mo-Co-Wi-De 1924 1927 changed name to Cooke and Denton Area 572 1927
 * Texas 582 Tarrant County 1922 1927 merged into Fort Worth Area 582 1927
 * Texas 572 Cooke and Denton Area 1927 1928 merged into Fort Worth Area 582 1928
 * Texas 582 Fort Worth Area 1927 1949 changed name to Longhorn 582 1949
 * Texas 582 Longhorn 1949
 * Texas 583 Alamo 1912 1918 changed name to San Antonio 583 1918
 * Texas Laredo 1920 1922 merged into Webb County 700 1922
 * Texas Webb County 1922 1923 merged into Webb County 700 1923
 * Texas 583 San Antonio 1918 1925 changed name to Alamo Area 583 1925
 * Texas 700 Webb County 1925 1927 changed name to Aztec 700 1927
 * Texas 563 Arrowhead 1924 1928 1/2 merged into Alamo Area 583 1928
 * Texas 700 Aztec 1927 1933 merged into Alamo Area 583 1933
 * Texas 583 Alamo Area 1925
 * Texas 584 Texarkana 1919 1928 changed name to TEXAS-Arkansas 584 1928
 * Texas 584 Texas-Arkansas 1928 1936 changed name to Caddo Area 584 1936
 * Texas 584 Caddo Area 1936
 * Texas 698 Limestone County 1925 1929 changed name to Limestone and Freestone Area 698 1929
 * Texas 586 Tr-An-Le-Ho 1928 1930 merged into Davy Crockett 586 1930
 * Texas 698 Limestone and Freestone Area 1929 1930 merged into Davy Crockett 586 1930
 * Texas 472 Tejas 1928 1931 merged into East Texas Area 585 1931
 * Texas 585 Pine Tree Area 1928 1931 merged into East Texas Area 585 1931
 * Texas 586 Davy Crockett 1930 1931 merged into East Texas Area 585 1931
 * Texas 585 East Texas Area 1931
 * Texas 587 Wichita Falls 1920 1927 changed name to Wichita Area 587 1927
 * Texas 559 Quanah Parker 1928 1931 1/2 merged into Wichita Area 587 1931
 * Texas 587 Wichita Area 1927 1937 changed name to Northwest Texas Area 587 1937
 * Texas 587 Northwest Texas 1937
 * Texas 673 Falls-Milam-Robertson Area 1924 1926 1/2 merged into McLennan County 662 1926
 * Texas 662 McLennan County 1924 1929 changed name to Heart O' Texas 662 1929
 * Texas 662 Heart O' Texas 1929
 * Texas 482 Central Plains 1928 1932 Direct Service/merged into South Plains 694 1936
 * Texas 694 South Plains 1925
 * Texas 745 Southwest Texas 1926 1936 merged into Concho Valley 741 1936
 * Texas 741 Concho Valley 1926 http://home1.gte.net/bsa741
 * Texas 775 Lower Rio Grande Valley 1927 1947 changed name to Rio Grande 775 1947
 * Texas 775 Rio Grande 1947

Merge Camp Casa Mare

 * Merge.Rlevse 10:57, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose Let the article have time to grow. --evrik (talk) 21:26, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge If the entry here grows to where it can stand on its own, then it can be moved back. The article is quite crufty as it is. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 11:14, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Merge from Camp Constantin
Disagree - there's enough information in this article for it to stand on its own. Horus Kol 07:48, 19 September 2006 (UTC)


 * If you are willing, I would support the expansion of this article into a larger Circle 10 article, as there is ample information on the state page to be folded in. Otherwise, there is an existing policy on sub-council entities. Chris 15:09, 20 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Seems a fair compromise - if every organisation in Texas had this much information, that would make for a long article on Scouting in Texas... Horus Kol 15:18, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Separate Articles Needed for Boy and Girl Scouting
This article needs to be split into two separate articles -- one for Boy Scouting and one for Girl Scouting. These are two entirely different and separate organizations with different and separate histories, organizational structures, leadership, and geographic divisions. PGNormand 15:30, 8 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Once any section expands to the point of a new article, then it will will be forked, as has been done with other by state articles. Right now, this article is not much more than a list of councils and districts.  --Gadget850 ( Ed) 18:21, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

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1st Tarrant
As best I see, the 1st Tarrant is defunct. The BPSA ScoutFinder does show six Scout groups in Texas. --  Gadget850talk 15:24, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Feel free to edit the section as you see fit. --evrik (talk) 15:36, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

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Floresville boy scout troop
I find no reference that W.H. Butler started a Troop 114 in Floresville, TX or that this boy scout troop began in February 1910. The January 14, 1911 issue (114?) of the San Antonio Daily Express says that W.H. Butler started a boy scout troop in Floresville in January 1911, and that they had ordered uniforms. W.H. Butler had been Superintendent of Martinsville, TX schools but resigned in May 1910 to accept a job as principal of the high school in Floresville. 2600:1700:E030:4E10:488E:9481:B458:2C1A (talk) 04:12, 30 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Ft. Worth Star-Telegram (December 26, 1910) reports that a Boy Scout troop has organized in Floresville. The San Antonio Daily Express (Jan. 14, 1911) says the Floresville scoutmaster was Prof. W.H. Butler and that the troop has ordered uniforms. The Floresville scout troop began in December 1910.
 * Two newspaper articles say that this Floresville troop was the second organized in Texas (Weekly Advocate, Sept. 30, 1911. Victoria, Texas and Matagorda County Tribune, Oct. 19, 1917).  Floresville could not be the second because both the Huntsville and Granbury troops organized in 1909 (Houston Chronicle Jun10, 1934 and Hood County News-Tablet Sept. 20, 1962), Houston YMCA troop organized in spring 1910, Ft. Worth YMCA troop in July 1910 (Ft.Worth Star-Telegram July8, 1910), El Paso YMCA troop in Aug. 1910 (Aug27 1910, El Paso Herald), Dallas and San Antonio YMCA troops in Oct. 1910 (West Texas Scouting History & San Antonio Daily Express Oct 4, 1910), and the Comanche, TX troop began may have begun in November as they were active in December 1910 (The Clifton Record  Dec16 1910). The Floresville scout troop could be the 8th or 9th scout troop in Texas. 2600:1700:E030:4E10:2084:64AF:2968:9CEE (talk) 03:19, 31 August 2023 (UTC)