County sales tax here is 1%. That is not a label for the cattle check or the cotton check.
Borden County's seat is Gail, at the edge of the Llano Estacado. The county rate is higher than most of its neighbors. The books still have to say what the money was. Remote is the start.
Gail files at the Caprock edge of the Llano Estacado, with Scurry, Howard, Dawson, Lynn, and Garza on the line. The county file says the county was set off in 1876 from Bexar County. The handbook says it was marked off that same year from Bosque County. This page does not invent a winner between those two parent lines. Organization waited until 1891. Gail Borden, Jr., the namesake, is remembered for condensed milk. That is his biography, and it does not describe what a Gail shop sells.
Before settlement this was Penateka range. The handbook also calls that band the Honey-Eaters, and Wasps was another nickname, with Shoshone given as the older root. Cattle came in from Howard County in 1876. Cotton later became the crop that mattered. Water runs toward the Colorado and toward Lake J. B. Thomas. A cattle check and a cotton check in the same Gail month are still two papers. A royalty stub from the 1949 find, if you are holding one, is a third paper.
Gail's 1% county sales tax is a rate fact. It is not the name of the deposit.
The July 2026 Comptroller figure used here shows a county sales tax of 1% for Borden County. State sales tax is 6.25%. Where a city has its own rate, that city rate stacks on the state rate and any county rate. The combined cap is 8.25%. City rates are not listed on this page.
Business personal property renditions go to the county appraisal district for Borden County. Put April 15 on the calendar. That district's form says which date controls the list.
The franchise report is due May 15. Texas has no state income tax. Neither date goes away because of that.
Gail can hand you a cotton-lint settlement and a livestock settlement from the same pasture. Put the lint settlement in one pile on the desk and the livestock settlement in another pile before you open any software. A royalty stub, if that field is still paying you, goes in a third pile. The download from the bank will stack those amounts in arrival order, so the piles have to exist first or the month becomes one sales number.
School land opened for lease in 1902, which is why a herd and a crop can both be yours here. That lease story stays in the handbook. Your piles are today's problem. The nickname for the earlier people on this range stays in the handbook too. You should keep the royalty stub off the lint pile even when both showed up the same afternoon. After the piles are physically separate, use the time link at the bottom of this page and stay in Gail.
Book a time if Gail's rate is not the confusion and the two checks are.
Book a time to split cattle from cotton
Sources:
Handbook of Texas: Borden County
County sales tax is the July 2026 Texas Comptroller figure supplied in the project county file. Seat, year, name, and the county it was formed from are the same file.