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Dimmit County, Texas

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

3historic places

—earliest paper

1858formed

8,615pop. 2020

4cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 3 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1984. Most listings are in or near Carrizo Springs, Asherton, Catarina.

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 Dimmit titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

3 of 3 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

3 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Dimmit County Courthouse	Carrizo Springs	Building	1984
Richardson, Asher and Mary Isabelle, House	Asherton	Building	1988
Valenzuela Ranch Headquarters	Catarina	District	1985

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Dimmit was formed in 1858 (1858-02-01) from Maverick, Uvalde, Webb, Bexar Land District.

DIMMIT created from MAVERICK, UVALDE, WEBB, and Bexar Land District.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Dimmit County population from 1870 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1870	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
109	665	1,106	5,296	8,542	10,654	10,095	11,367	10,248	8,615

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

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

Cemeteries — 4 of 4 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Big Wells Cemetery	28.58276	-99.56838
Mount Hope Cemetery	28.53404	-99.85709
Saint Michaels Cemetery	28.58387	-99.56866
Valley Wells Cemetery	28.47868	-99.51053

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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