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Frio County, Texas

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

1historic places

—earliest paper

1858formed

18,385pop. 2020

12cemeteries

—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 Pearsall.

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 Frio 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
Old Frio County Jail	Pearsall	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

Frio was formed in 1858 (1858-02-01) from Atascosa, Uvalde, Bexar Land District.

FRIO created from ATASCOSA, UVALDE, and Bexar Land District.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Frio County population from 1860 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
42	2,130	4,200	9,296	9,207	10,357	10,112	13,785	16,252	18,385

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

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

Cemeteries — 12 of 12 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Brummett Cemetery	29.07136	-98.81225
Buckhorn Cemetery	28.80914	-99.02698
Covey Chapel Cemetery	28.65831	-99.32782
Derby Cemetery	28.75609	-99.11003
Diller Cemetery	28.67387	-99.18781
Frio Town Cemetery	29.01608	-99.30948
Hugo Cemetery	28.6872	-99.24976
Longview Cemetery	29.06247	-98.89225
Miguel Cemetery	28.92469	-98.84392
Moore Cemetery	29.0558	-98.99892
Moore Cemetery	29.06052	-99.00892
Pearsall Cemetery	28.89025	-99.08114

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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