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Coleman County, Texas

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

—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
1historic places
—earliest paper
1858formed
7,684pop. 2020
22cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 1 listed property in the county, first listed in 2018. Most listings are in or near Coleman.

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 Coleman titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

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

1 listed property
PropertyCityTypeListed
Camp Colorado ReplicaColemanBuilding2018

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Coleman was formed in 1858 (1858-02-01) from Brown, Travis Land District.

COLEMAN created from BROWN and Travis Land District.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Coleman County population from 1870 to 2020 (Census historical series).

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1870188019001920194019501960198020002020
3473,60310,07718,80520,57115,50312,45810,4399,2357,684

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

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

Cemeteries — 22 of 22 listed
NameLatLon
Adams Cemetery32.01095-99.2504
Anderson Cemetery31.96131-99.60081
Atoka Cemetery31.99431-99.67258
Brown Ranch Cemetery31.65821-99.47256
Coleman City Cemetery31.81718-99.408
Five Ashes Cemetery31.56099-99.25311
Glen Cove Cemetery31.84927-99.62566
Herring Cemetery31.86265-99.70702
Hill Cemetery31.55627-99.56006
Leaday Cemetery31.56629-99.65737
Midway Cemetery32.01348-99.69591
Mount View Cemetery31.93361-99.50441
Old Valera Cemetery31.76209-99.5534
Rough Creek Cemetery31.96125-99.60091
Rough Creek Cemetery31.97487-99.60313
Silver Valley Cemetery31.96681-99.54229
Stewardson Cemetery31.58682-99.35672
Talpa Cemetery31.79459-99.69174
Valera Cemetery31.73793-99.54646
Voss Cemetery31.62793-99.55007
Walker Cemetery31.8932-99.36173
Whon Cemetery31.49627-99.31089
Historical populated places — 1 of 1
NameLatLon
Leaday31.56793-99.67313

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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