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Cochran County, Texas

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1876formed

2,547pop. 2020

3cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

No National Register listings were found for this county in the current NPS dataset.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

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National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

No listings found in the current NPS dataset.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Cochran was formed in 1876 (1876-11-19) from Young Territory.

COCHRAN created from Young Territory. Act passed 21 Aug 1876; took effect 19 Nov 1876.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Cochran County population from 1900 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
25	67	3,735	5,928	6,417	4,825	3,730	2,547

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

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

Cemeteries — 3 of 3 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Bledsoe Cemetery	33.62641	-103.03862
Morton Memorial Cemetery	33.74391	-102.76102
Whiteface Cemetery	33.5997	-102.62089

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Star Route	33.7476	-102.86577

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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