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Gillespie County, Texas

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

—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
20historic places
—earliest paper
1848formed
26,725pop. 2020
43cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 20 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1970. Most listings are in or near Fredericksburg, Enchanted Rock, Stonewall.

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 Gillespie titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

3 of 20 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

20 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Cave Creek SchoolFredericksburgBuilding2004
Cherry Spring SchoolFredericksburgBuilding2005
Crabapple SchoolFredericksburgBuilding2005
Enchanted Rock Archeological DistrictEnchanted RockDistrict1984
Feller-Barsch HomesteadFredericksburgDistrict2019
Fort Martin ScottFredericksburgSite1980
Fredericksburg Historic DistrictFredericksburgDistrict1970
Fredericksburg Memorial LibraryFredericksburgBuilding1971
Klein Frankreich Rural Historic DistrictFredericksburgDistrict2023
Lower South Grape Creek SchoolFredericksburgBuilding2005
Luckenbach SchoolFredericksburgBuilding2005
Meusebach Creek SchoolFredericksburgBuilding2005
Morris Ranch SchoolhouseFredericksburgBuilding1983
Nebgen SchoolFredericksburgBuilding2005
Pecan Creek SchoolFredericksburgBuilding2005
Rheingold SchoolFredericksburgBuilding2005
St. Mary's Catholic ChurchFredericksburgBuilding1983
Williams Creek SchoolStonewallBuilding2005
Willow City SchoolWillow CityBuilding2005
Wrede SchoolFredericksburgBuilding2005

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Gillespie was formed in 1848 (1848-02-23) from Bexar.

GILLESPIE created from BEXAR.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Gillespie County population from 1850 to 2020 (Census historical series).

27k14k1,2401850188019201940196020002020
18501860188019001920194019501960198020002020
1,2402,7365,2288,22910,01510,67010,52010,04813,53220,81426,725

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

SiteTypeDist.
Lyndon B Johnson National Historical ParkPark unit39.0 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

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

Cemeteries — 43 of 43 listed
NameLatLon
Ahrens Cemetery Number 130.45649-98.95539
Anderegg Cemetery30.48055-99.27904
Dearing Cemetery30.46652-98.9408
Diedrich - Rode Cemetery30.47953-98.98965
Dittmar Cemetery30.45575-98.98449
Durst Cemetery30.38864-98.92082
Eckert Cemetery30.41992-98.73782
Eckert Cemetery30.16882-98.9456
Evers Cemetery30.48884-99.01533
Friedrich Cemetery30.38158-98.96699
Grapetown Cemetery30.14382-98.82004
Greenwood Cemetery30.28446-98.85556
Guadalupe Cemetery30.22604-98.68198
Hill Crest Cemetery30.21965-99.01643
Johnson Family Cemetery30.23967-98.61047
Kensing Cemetery30.46221-99.1368
Ketron Cemetery30.38063-98.92384
Kothe Cemetery30.46075-98.97421
Lange Cemetery30.47936-99.12477
Lange Cemetery30.48269-99.00838
Luckenbach Cemetery30.19909-98.73587
Marschall Meusebach Cemetery30.48362-98.9981
Meusebach Cemetery30.1977-98.87032
Mund Cemetery30.47102-99.03644
Peril Cemetery30.17686-99.19599
Rode Cemetery30.28937-98.72531
Rode Cemetery30.45991-98.9706
Rusche Cemetery30.43658-98.84865
Sagebiel-Keese Cemetery30.47658-98.88504
Saint John Cemetery30.43214-98.82837
Saint Mary Cemetery30.28853-98.88587
Satler Cemetery30.4963-99.12922
Schmidt Family Cemetery30.43344-98.83869
Schneider Cemetery30.49019-98.93505
Schugh Cemetery30.37436-98.9456
Spring Creek CemeteryNoneNone
Squaw Creek Cemetery30.43464-99.04866
Stonewall Cemetery30.23298-98.65975
Welge Cemetery30.48436-99.03449
Welgehausen Cemetery30.44464-98.83949
Wendel Cemetery30.39242-98.91115
Willow City Cemetery30.39103-98.70615
Youngs Chapel Cemetery30.36418-98.6404

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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