Presidio County does not have a coroner or medical examiner link on its website. Presumably they have some sort of arrangement with a neighboring county. I’ve never lived anywhere so rural that there was no coroner, so it seems bizarre to me.
You’ll enjoy this sir.
“Texas. Texas is a complicated state to research in a study of this sort (a study of medical examiner systems) because of its large number of counties (254) and the fact that the officiator of death in all but the 12 largest counties (where there are medical examiner systems) is an elected judicial official known as the Justice of the Peace. Half of Texas’ ca. 18,000,000 population lives in the twelve largest counties, the other half in the other 242 counties. Officially, the Justice of the Peace (JP) is a full time occupation because s/he is “on call” 24 hours a day, but in some counties a JP serves for $1.00 per year and others serve for very small salaries (hardly a living wage). This means that these JPs are either “retired” or work at some other occupation. Being a licensed mortician is not a restriction to serving as a JP, and is it known that about six that are practicing morticians do serve as JPs in certain places, but this figure has not been specifically compiled in this very large state which employs some 857 JPs, including three in a county of less than 500 in population.”
And the part of the county they are in is the more remote part.