The county file says Carey. The handbook says Cary. The Pecos bounds the south and west.
Crane County's seat is the town of Crane. A ranch credit and a lake credit can share a week. The close is remote.
The town of Crane and the county share a spelling, and cattle raising is the work the handbook stresses. Farming is slight. The county file names William Carey Crane, a president of Baylor University. The handbook entry says William Cary Crane. This page does not pick between those two spellings. The county was formed in 1887 from Tom Green County.
The Pecos River bounds the south and west and, with Juan Cordona Lake, drains the land. Horsehead Crossing is the ford the entry ties to that river. Ector lies north, Upton east, Pecos County south, and Ward west. The ground is rolling prairie at the west edge of the Edwards Plateau.
The town of Crane can clear a ranch credit and a lake credit.
The July 2026 Comptroller figure used here shows no county sales tax for Crane 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 Crane 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.
A cattle check should say cattle, rather than inherit the town name, when the other deposit that week is a lake check. Juan Cordona Lake and Horsehead Crossing are both on this drainage. Put down the lake or the ford only when the paper names it. When a bill says Pecos, add river or county so the neighbor is not posted as the water. The two spellings of Crane's personal name stay in the sources. Neither one is a vendor.
Book a time if the lake and the cattle are one line.
Book a time to split the Crane credit
Sources:
Handbook of Texas: Crane 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.