 Republican Drew Springer, Jr., a businessman from Muenster in Cooke County, has since January 2013 represented Dickens County in the Texas House of Representatives.According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which are land and (0.4%) are covered by water.As of the census of 2000, 2,762 people, 980 households, and 638 families resided in the county.