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Haskell County, Texas

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0historic places

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1858formed

5,416pop. 2020

14cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

No National Register listings were found for this county in the current NPS dataset.

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 Haskell titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

No listings found in the current NPS dataset.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

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

HASKELL created from Young Territory.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
48	2,637	14,193	14,905	13,736	11,174	7,725	6,093	5,416

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

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

Cemeteries — 14 of 14 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Brushy Cemetery	33.35232	-99.51647
Capron Cemetery	32.98316	-99.8826
Highland Cemetery	32.9665	-99.79926
Howard Cemetery	33.049	-99.65648
Idella Cemetery	33.30315	-99.96621
Pinkerton Cemetery	33.19482	-99.84593
Pleasant Valley Cemetery	33.27038	-99.63036
Roberts Cemetery	33.21843	-99.61953
Rochester Cemetery	33.33343	-99.87482
Rockdale Cemetery	32.96289	-99.56731
Rule Cemetery	33.18816	-99.87176
Stamford Cemetery	32.98261	-99.83176
Weinert Cemetery	33.34371	-99.66287
Willow Cemetery	33.15066	-99.73954

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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