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Dickens County, Texas

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

1historic places

—earliest paper

1876formed

1,770pop. 2020

8cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 1 listed property in the county, first listed in 1980. Most listings are in or near Dickens.

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 Dickens 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

Property	City	Type	Listed
Dickens County Courthouse and Jail	Dickens	Building	1980

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Dickens was formed in 1876 (1876-11-19) from Young Territory.

DICKENS created from Young Territory. Act passed 21 Aug 1876; took effect 19 Nov 1876.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
28	1,151	5,876	7,847	7,177	4,963	3,539	2,762	1,770

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

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

Cemeteries — 8 of 8 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Afton Cemetery	33.76551	-100.80581
Amity Cemetery	33.71987	-100.82457
Dickens Cemetery	33.62385	-100.82048
Espuela Cemetery	33.57535	-100.89524
McAdoo Cemetery	33.72541	-101.0218
Red Mud Cemetery	33.4263	-100.99918
Spur Cemetery	33.47709	-100.83851
Steele Hill Cemetery	33.4211	-100.78813

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Soldiers Mound	33.52259	-100.8318

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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