Fisher County, Texas: History
10000 BC - Paleo-Indians were the first inhabitants. Later Native American inhabitants include the Pawnee, Wichita and Waco, Lipan Apache, Kiowa, and Comanche.
1876 - The Texas legislature formed Fisher County from Bexar districts. The new county was named after Samuel Rhoads Fisher.
1880 - The census reported 136 inhabitants.
1881 - The Texas and Pacific Railway routed an east–west branch through Eskota.
1885 - The town of Fisher was registered. Swedish immigrants founded the community of Swedonia.
1886 - The town of North Roby was registered. Roby eventually won the county seat election over Fisher, but one of the voters, a Mr. Bill Purp, was later discovered to have been actually a dog whose owner lived near Roby.
1920 - Fisher County was among Texas leaders in wheat production.
1926 - Cotton became king, as 48,000 bales were ginned in the county.
1928 - Oil was discovered in the county.
1970 - The county's average annual farm income was evenly divided between livestock and crops.