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Blanco County, Texas

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

4historic places

—earliest paper

1858formed

11,374pop. 2020

12cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 4 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1969; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Blanco, Johnson City, Round Mountain.

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 Blanco 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
Blanco Historic District	Blanco	District	1991
Conn, Adrian Edwards, House	Blanco	Building	1971
Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park NHL	Johnson City	District	1969
Round Mountain Stage-Coach Inn and Stable	Round Mountain	Building	1978

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Blanco was formed in 1858 (1858-02-12) from Burnet, Comal, Gillespie, Hays, Kerr.

BLANCO created from BURNET, COMAL, GILLESPIE, HAYS, KERR, Non-County Area 14, and Non-County Area 20. Non-County Areas 14 and 20 eliminated.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
1,281	3,583	4,703	4,063	4,264	3,780	3,657	4,681	8,418	11,374

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

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

Site	Type	Dist.
Lyndon B Johnson National Historical Park	Park unit	13.9 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

12 cemeteries and 1 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 12 of 12 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
August Jonas Cemetery	30.02688	-98.42699
Blanco Cemetery	30.09292	-98.41775
Comanche Cemetery	30.49297	-98.56864
Davis Cemetery	30.47244	-98.56815
Henly Cemetery	30.19715	-98.2389
McKinney Cemetery	30.11549	-98.48336
Miller Creek Cemetery	30.19604	-98.33196
Peyton Cemetery	30.11398	-98.30943
Round Mountain Cemetery	30.43825	-98.35086
Sandy Cemetery	30.34464	-98.47086
Twin Sisters Cemetery	30.00743	-98.40557
Wegner Cemetery	30.01882	-98.46308

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Westbrook	30.26853	-98.52558

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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