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Coke County, Texas

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

2historic places

—earliest paper

1889formed

3,285pop. 2020

15cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 2 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1973. Most listings are in or near Robert Lee, Bronte.

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 Coke titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

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

2 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Coke County Jail	Robert Lee	Building	2004
Fort Chadbourne	Bronte	District	1973

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Coke was formed in 1889 (1889-03-13) from Tom Green.

COKE created from TOM GREEN.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Coke County population from 1890 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1890	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
2,059	3,430	4,557	4,590	4,045	3,589	3,196	3,864	3,285

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

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

Cemeteries — 15 of 15 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Cedar Hill Cemetery	32.00787	-100.74747
Divide Cemetery	31.80609	-100.69747
Fairview Cemetery	31.88189	-100.28999
Fort Chadbourne Cemetery	31.98904	-100.29208
Fort Chadbourne Cemetery	32.04058	-100.25137
Hayrick Cemetery	31.95507	-100.3948
Indian Creek Cemetery	31.8932	-100.41469
Mule Creek Cemetery	31.71404	-100.31643
Paint Creek Cemetery	31.90281	-100.60575
Robert Lee Cemetery	31.89752	-100.47372
Robert Lee Hispanic Cemetery	31.89869	-100.46674
Ross Cemetery	32.023	-100.34426
Sanco Cemetery	31.9976	-100.50677
Terry Memorial Cemetery	31.91964	-100.66907
Valley View Cemetery	31.81692	-100.45841

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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