  thumb|200px|right|military monument at hemphill county courthouse  200px|thumb|right|canadian record newspaper office serves hemphill county. hemphill county is a county located in the u.s. state of texas. as of the 2010 census, its population was 3,807. the county seat and only incorporated community in the county is canadian. the county is named for john hemphill, a judge and confederate congressman. hemphill county is one of 30http://www.tabc.state.tx.us/local_option_elections/index.asp prohibition, or entirely dry, counties in the state of texas. ==history== ===early history=== for the two hundred years leading up to 1875, nomadic indian tribes representing the apache, comanche, kiowa, and others roamed the panhandle following the huge buffalo herds. in search for an alternate route to california through santa fe, new mexico, josiah gregg (1840), and caprain randolph b. marcy (1845) surveyed trails that crossed hemphill county, following the south bank of the canadian river. the battles of the red river war of 1875-1876, an effort by the united states army to contain the indians in the panhandle, took place. in september,1874, two of thee major battles occurred in what would become hemphill county: the battle of lymanâs wagon train and the battle of buffalo wallow. on april 12, 1
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