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Hardeman County, Texas

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

2historic places

—earliest paper

1858formed

3,549pop. 2020

7cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 2 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1979. Most listings are in or near Quanah.

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 Hardeman titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

1 of 2 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

2 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Quanah Commercial Historic District	Quanah	District	2000
Quanah, Acme and Pacific Depot	Quanah	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

Hardeman was formed in 1858 (1858-02-01) from Young Territory.

HARDEMAN created from Young Territory.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
50	3,634	12,487	11,073	10,212	8,275	6,368	4,724	3,549

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 1 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 7 of 7 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Big Valley Cemetery	34.17533	-99.56008
Chillicothe Cemetery	34.27786	-99.52259
Elba Cemetery	34.45507	-99.96538
Goodlett Cemetery	34.31813	-99.88066
Johnson Cemetery	34.44812	-99.89399
Memorial Park Cemetery	34.30619	-99.73009
Scott Cemetery	34.41535	-99.96594

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Acme	34.31674	-99.82399

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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