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Edwards County, Texas

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

1historic places

—earliest paper

1858formed

1,422pop. 2020

7cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 1 listed property in the county, first listed in 1979. Most listings are in or near Rocksprings.

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 Edwards 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
Edwards County Courthouse and Jail	Rocksprings	Building	1979

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Edwards was formed in 1858 (1858-02-01) from Bexar Land District.

EDWARDS created from Bexar Land District.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
266	3,108	2,283	2,933	2,908	2,317	2,033	2,162	1,422

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

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

Cemeteries — 7 of 7 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Barksdale Cemetery	29.72311	-100.04188
Carta Valley Cemetery	29.81001	-100.68657
Coalson Cemetery	29.7832	-100.17512
Greer Ranch Cemetery	30.23291	-100.10196
Hackberry Cemetery	29.96723	-100.02463
Rocksprings Cemetery	30.02141	-100.20027
Thurman Cemetery	29.75395	-100.39502

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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