Stephens County was created as Buchanan County in 1858 from Bosque County. It was renamed in in 1861 for Confederate Vice-President Alexander H. Stephens. It was organized in 1876.

By the fall of 1861 the state government in Austin found it necessary to protect the frontier settlers from Indian attack by providing ten companies, known as the Frontier Regiment, under the command of Colonel James M. Norris, assisted by Alfred T. Obenchain and J. E. McCord. The Frontier Regiment was scattered along the Texas frontier in sixteen camps. Camp Breckenridge in Stephens County was one of these.

The Breckenridge oil field in Stephens County was opened in 1918 following the completion of the Chaney Number 1 well.

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