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Dimmit -- U.S. County in Texas
Population (2000): 10248
Housing Units (2000): 4112
Land area (2000): 1330.911180 sq. miles (3447.043984 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 3.572193 sq. miles (9.251938 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1334.483373 sq. miles (3456.295922 sq. km)
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 28.462555 N, 99.754829 W
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Dimmit
Dimmit, TX
Dimmit County
Dimmit County, TX

Usage examples of "dimmit".

Before retiring on the night of our last camp on the county line, and in the presence of the Dimmit inspector, the last relief received instructions, in the absence of contrary orders, to allow the herd to drift back into Lasalle in the morning.

She left me at an orphanage in Dimmit County when I was just a few days old.

Cameron and Willacy counties on the Gulf through Hidalgo, Starr, Zapata, Webb, Dimmit, Zavala, and Maverick, the American citizens of Mexican ancestry have, through the exercise of their right to vote, taken control of county functions: school boards, zoning, police and fire protection, road departments, library services, county welfare, and all the other boards and commissions which spring full grown from the over-fertilized minds of the political animals.

Here all along the valley from Cameron and Willacy counties on the Gulf through Hidalgo, Starr, Zapata, Webb, Dimmit, Zavala, and Maverick, the American citizens of Mexican ancestry have, through the exercise of their right to vote, taken control of county functions: school boards, zoning, police and fire protection, road departments, library services, county welfare, and all the other boards and commissions which spring full grown from the over-fertilized minds of the political animals.

I am sure He likes His little ones to tell their fancies in the dimmits about the nursery fire.