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Crockett County, Texas

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

7historic places

—earliest paper

1875formed

3,098pop. 2020

1cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 7 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1971. Most listings are in or near Ozona, Iraan, Sheffield.

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 Crockett titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

1 of 7 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

7 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Camp Melvin Site	Iraan	Site	1978
Carson, Ira and Wilma, House	Ozona	Building	2002
Crockett County Courthouse	Ozona	Building	1974
Fort Lancaster	Sheffield	Site	1971
Harris Ranch Petroglyph Site 41 CX 110	Iraan	Site	1978
Live Oak Creek Archeological District	Sheffield	District	1976
Turkey Roost Petroglyph Site	Ozona	Site	1978

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Crockett was formed in 1875 (1875-01-22) from Bexar Land District.

CROCKETT created from Bexar Land District; non-county area within Bexar Land District eliminated.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
127	1,591	1,500	2,809	3,981	4,209	4,608	4,099	3,098

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

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

Cemeteries — 1 of 1 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Cedar Hill Cemetery	30.69212	-101.20483

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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