what county is stratford tx in
stratford, texas. Stratford, the county seat of Sherman County, is on U.S. highways 54 and 287 in the western part of the county. The site was settled around 1885, when Aaron Norton bought 100 sections of land from the railroads, and was named by Walter Colton, Norton's hired manager, after Stratford, Virginia, the boyhood home of Robert E. Lee.