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Jim Hogg County, Texas

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0historic places

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1913formed

4,838pop. 2020

10cemeteries

—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

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National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

No listings found in the current NPS dataset.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Jim Hogg was formed in 1913 (1913-06-30) from Brooks, Duval.

JIM HOGG created from BROOKS and DUVAL. Act passed 31 Mar 1913; took effect 30 Jun 1913.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Jim Hogg County population from 1920 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
1,914	5,449	5,389	5,022	5,168	5,281	4,838

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

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

Cemeteries — 10 of 10 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Aurora Ranch Cemetery	26.79809	-98.65878
Aurora Ranch Cemetery 2	26.79688	-98.66157
Fermin Olivarez Junior Cemetery	26.79067	-98.65174
Greenhill Cemetery	27.35354	-98.75007
Guerra Texas Cemetery	26.88579	-98.89112
Lino Ramirez Family Cemetery	26.90766	-98.84219
New Hebbronville Cemetery	27.29717	-98.66135
Old Hebbronville Cemetery	27.30988	-98.66559
Ramirez Cemetery	26.96505	-98.58252
Ramirez Cemetery	26.89728	-98.59698

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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