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Delta County, Texas

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0historic places

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1870formed

5,230pop. 2020

19cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

No National Register listings were found for this county in the current NPS dataset.

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 Delta titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

No listings found in the current NPS dataset.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Delta was formed in 1870 (1870-07-29) from Hopkins, Lamar.

DELTA created from HOPKINS and LAMAR.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
5,597	15,249	15,887	12,858	8,964	5,860	4,839	5,327	5,230

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

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

Cemeteries — 19 of 19 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Antioch Cemetery	33.3819	-95.78847
Baptist Hill Cemetery	33.47122	-95.76441
Brush Creek Cemetery	33.38529	-95.60925
Camp Shed Cemetery	33.47581	-95.6361
Clark Ridge Cemetery	33.38567	-95.57746
Dawson Cemetery	33.35633	-95.66119
Giles Cemetery	33.45483	-95.79719
Gough Cemetery	33.3365	-95.80246
Hickory Grove Cemetery	33.37039	-95.62774
Kensing Cemetery	33.39844	-95.4119
Liberty Grove Cemetery	33.36051	-95.69351
Oak Lawn Cemetery	33.36844	-95.66913
Pierce Cemetery	33.46372	-95.59135
Shiloh Cemetery	33.3065	-95.8183
Simmons Cemetery	33.47471	-95.74965
Tucker Cemetery	33.33735	-95.63393
Union Grove Cemetery	33.39372	-95.52329
Waller Cemetery	33.46459	-95.77588
Winfrey Cemetery	33.44534	-95.55848

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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