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Some of the cities, towns, and places in Erath County are Alexander, Bluff Dale, Bunyan, Chalk Mountain, Clairette, Dublin, Duffau, Edna Hill, Hannibal, Harbin, Huckabay, Lingleville, Morgan Mill, Mount Airy, Oak Dale, Purves, Selden, Stephenville, Three Way, Thurber

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Erath County () is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. According to the United States Census bureau its population was 41,969 in 2017. The county seat is Stephenville. The county is named for George Bernard Erath, an early surveyor and a soldier at the Battle of San Jacinto. Erath County is included in the Stephenville, Texas, Micropolitan Statistical Area. Erath County is the location of two of North America's largest renewable natural gas plants. The largest is at Huckabay Ridge, near Stephenville. The second largest is located outside Dublin at Rio Leche Estates. On November 4, 2008, Erath County voters elected to allow the sale of beer and wine in the county for off-premises consumption.