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Culberson County, Texas

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

10historic places

—earliest paper

1911formed

2,188pop. 2020

6cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 10 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1974. Most listings are in or near Salt Flat, Van Horn, Gaudalupe Mountain National Park.

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 Culberson titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

5 of 10 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

10 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Butterfield Overland Mail Corridor	Salt Flat	District	2014
Clark Hotel	Van Horn	Building	1979
First Presbyterian Church	Van Horn	Building	1978
Granado Cave	Toyah	Site	1977
Guadalupe Ranch	Salt Flat	Building	1978
Lobo Valley Petroglyph Site	Lobo	Site	1988
McKittrick Canyon Archeological District, Guadalupe Mountains National Park	Salt Flat	District	1991
Pinery Station	Gaudalupe Mountain National Park	Site	1974
Pratt, Wallace E., House	Salt Flat	Building	2011
Pratt, Wallace, Lodge	Gaudalupe Mountain National Park	Building	1975

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Culberson was formed in 1911 (1911-03-10) from El Paso.

CULBERSON created from EL PASO.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Culberson County population from 1920 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
912	1,653	1,825	2,794	3,315	2,975	2,188

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

6 cemeteries and 2 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 6 of 6 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Boracho Cemetery	31.08106	-104.38599
Cowden Family Ranch Cemetery	31.71282	-104.59041
Feely Cemetery	31.05758	-104.52352
Kent Cemetery	31.07338	-104.21965
Van Horn Cemetery	31.0476	-104.83979
Van Horn Wells Cemetery	30.88438	-104.79774

Historical populated places — 2 of 2

Name	Lat	Lon
Frijole	31.90539	-104.783
Pinery	31.89262	-104.81745

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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