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Garza County, Texas

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

6historic places

—earliest paper

1876formed

5,816pop. 2020

2cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 6 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1975. Most listings are in or near Post.

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 Garza titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

1 of 6 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

6 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Cooper's Canyon Site 41 GR 25	Post	Site	1978
Garza County Courthouse	Post	Building	2001
O.S. Ranch Petroglyphs 41 GR 57	Post	Site	1978
Old Post Sanitarium	Post	Building	1975
Post West Dugout	Post	Site	1978
Post-Montgomery Site 41 GR 188	Post	Site	1978

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

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

GARZA 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

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

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
36	185	4,253	5,678	6,281	6,611	5,336	4,872	5,816

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

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

Cemeteries — 2 of 2 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Resthaven Cemetery	33.35287	-101.5546
Terrace Cemetery	33.19037	-101.35486

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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