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Camp County, Texas

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

1historic places

—earliest paper

1874formed

12,464pop. 2020

9cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 1 listed property in the county, first listed in 2013. Most listings are in or near Pittsburg.

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 Camp titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

0 of 1 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

1 listed property

Property	City	Type	Listed
Pittsburg Commercial Historic District	Pittsburg	District	2013

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Camp was formed in 1874 (1874-04-06) from Upshur.

CAMP created from UPSHUR.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Camp County population from 1880 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
5,931	9,146	11,103	10,285	8,740	7,849	9,275	11,549	12,464

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

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

Cemeteries — 9 of 9 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Bolton Cemetery	32.95263	-94.93382
Handsome Cemetery	33.01985	-94.90382
Hepsibah Cemetery	32.9404	-95.13577
Hopewell Cemetery	32.91068	-95.07383
North Chapel Cemetery	33.04151	-94.97632
Oak Grove Cemetery	32.98679	-95.07827
Rosehill Cemetery	32.99679	-94.95771
Smart Cemetery	32.95707	-94.94077
Traylor Cemetery	33.00901	-94.90938

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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