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Bandera County, Texas

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—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

4historic places

—earliest paper

1856formed

20,851pop. 2020

14cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 4 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1979. Most listings are in or near Bandera, Medina.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Texas is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Bandera titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

2 of 4 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

4 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Bandera County Courthouse and Jail	Bandera	Building	1979
Jureczki House	Bandera	Building	1980
Langford, B.F., Jr. and Mary Hay, House	Bandera	Building	2004
River Oaks Courts	Medina	District	2019

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Bandera was formed in 1856 (1856-01-26) from Bexar, Uvalde.

BANDERA created from BEXAR, UVALDE, and Non-County Area 19 attached to MEDINA.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Bandera County population from 1860 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
399	2,158	5,332	4,001	4,234	4,410	3,892	7,084	17,645	20,851

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

14 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 14 of 14 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Amasa Clark Cemetery	29.71466	-99.12785
Baker Cemetery	29.808	-99.25282
Bandera Cemetery	29.73275	-99.07478
Bauerlein Cemetery	29.79163	-99.35699
Goodman Cemetery	29.83105	-99.26087
Haby Cemetery	29.66809	-99.42483
Hillman Cemetery	29.868	-99.39505
Honey Creek Cemetery	29.86731	-99.4194
Jones Cemetery	29.62856	-99.54088
Means Cemetery	29.85966	-99.33365
Pipe Creek Cemetery	29.70828	-98.93781
Polly Cemetery	29.77061	-98.99331
Tarpley Cemetery	29.64189	-99.26254
West Prong Cemetery	29.79383	-99.28199

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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