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Concho County, Texas

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

4historic places

—earliest paper

1858formed

3,303pop. 2020

7cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 4 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1971. Most listings are in or near Paint Rock, Salt Gap, Eola.

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 Concho titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

1 of 4 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

4 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Bishop Site	Salt Gap	Site	1977
Concho County Courthouse	Paint Rock	Building	1977
Eola School	Eola	Building	2005
Paint Rock Indian Pictograph Site	Paint Rock	Site	1971

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Concho was formed in 1858 (1858-02-01) from Bexar Land District, a small part of Travis Land District [NE corner].

CONCHO created from Bexar Land District and a small part of Travis Land District [NE corner].

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
800	1,427	5,847	6,192	5,078	3,672	2,915	3,966	3,303

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

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

Cemeteries — 7 of 7 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Eden Cemetery	31.231	-99.85146
Lakeview Community Cemetery	31.44655	-100.10592
Live Oak Cemetery	31.1285	-99.93007
Loveless Cemetery	31.12211	-99.70423
Millersview Cemetery	31.42044	-99.74618
Paint Rock Cemetery	31.49738	-99.91647
Sudduth Cemetery	31.21378	-99.73868

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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