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—digitized titles
74historic places
—earliest paper
1850formed
370,647pop. 2020
58cemeteries
—CW battlefields
At a glance
Summary
The National Register of Historic Places includes 74 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1974. Most listings are in or near Belton, Salado, Temple.
Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.
Bell County population from 1860 to 2020 (Census historical series).
1860
1880
1900
1920
1940
1950
1960
1980
2000
2020
4,799
20,518
45,535
46,412
44,863
73,824
94,097
157,889
237,974
370,647
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
58 cemeteries and 2 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.
Cemeteries — 58 of 58 listed
Name
Lat
Lon
Allen Cemetery
31.0049
-97.4614
Bell Plains Cemetery
30.93713
-97.46806
Bellwood Memorial Park
31.15434
-97.42056
Browns Cemetery
31.0599
-97.81835
Buckhorn Cemetery
31.27628
-97.45335
Burris Cemetery
31.02657
-97.61724
Cedar Creek Cemetery
31.16795
-97.39529
Center Lake Cemetery
30.94546
-97.39778
Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery
31.02615
-97.7592
City Cemetery
31.11768
-97.7053
Dyess Cemetery
31.01713
-97.2175
East Belton Cemetery
31.05407
-97.44112
Evergreen Cemetery
31.11601
-97.32917
Far North Belton Cemetery
31.08834
-97.45776
Ferguson Cemetery
31.00379
-97.39639
Greathouse Cemetery
31.0299
-97.33945
Hill Cemetery
31.06879
-97.43167
Hillcrest Cemetery
31.11296
-97.33389
Holland Cemetery
30.89074
-97.39389
Jackson Cemetery
30.8113
-97.35
Killeen Memorial Park
31.12018
-97.68779
Lancaster Cemetery
31.09935
-97.30334
Little Flock Cemetery
31.07462
-97.28806
Little River Cemetery
30.97491
-97.37111
Mary Allen Oliver Cemetery
31.0138
-97.42212
Mayberry Cemetery
31.03611
-97.80718
McDowell Cemetery
31.0849
-97.54446
Mesquite Grove Cemetery
31.01191
-97.4366
Moffat Cemetery
31.2174
-97.45751
Moody-Leon Cemetery
31.27684
-97.45362
Mount Zion Cemetery
31.17268
-97.31806
North Belton Cemetery
31.07157
-97.4589
Old Troy Cemetery
31.23184
-97.30584
Pendleton Cemetery
31.18962
-97.36612
Pleasant Hill Cemetery
31.08879
-97.62613
Pleasant View Cemetery
31.18851
-97.31834
Post Oak Cemetery
30.90963
-97.40056
Proctor Cemetery
31.00601
-97.51918
Reed Cemetery
30.90519
-97.2825
Reeds Lake Cemetery
30.95299
-97.31442
Resthaven Cemetery
31.0199
-97.48418
Roberts Cemetery
31.22545
-97.29417
Rogers Cemetery
30.92213
-97.22472
Roucker Cemetery
30.85241
-97.44056
Saint Joseph Cemetery
31.0324
-97.1236
Saint Pauls Cemetery
31.23878
-97.49362
Salado Cemetery
30.9363
-97.53168
Science Hill Cemetery
30.81852
-97.33278
Seaton Cemetery
31.05407
-97.21139
Shiloh Cemetery
31.2149
-97.27639
Sibley Cemetery
31.0649
-97.84641
South Belton Cemetery
31.05105
-97.46309
Stockton Cemetery
30.82324
-97.47778
Sunshine Cemetery
30.8938
-97.33528
Taylors Valley Cemetery
31.03496
-97.41362
Volo Cemetery
30.92554
-97.33947
Wedel Cemetery
31.00518
-97.28778
White Hall Cemetery
31.22017
-97.4589
Historical populated places — 2 of 2
Name
Lat
Lon
Childers Mill
30.99796
-97.44223
Dog Ridge
31.05407
-97.50668
Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.
Historical markers
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