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Kinney County, Texas

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

2historic places

—earliest paper

1850formed

3,129pop. 2020

9cemeteries

—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 Brackettville.

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 Kinney titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

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

2 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
1911 Kinney County Courthouse	Brackettville	Building	2004
Fort Clark Historic District	Brackettville	District	1979

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Kinney was formed in 1850 (1850-01-28) from Bexar.

KINNEY created from BEXAR.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Kinney County population from 1860 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
61	4,487	2,447	3,746	4,533	2,668	2,452	2,279	3,379	3,129

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

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

Cemeteries — 9 of 9 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Ballantyne Cemetery	29.30994	-100.41117
Kinney County Cemetery	29.31431	-100.40305
Masonic Cemetery	29.31543	-100.40316
Mud Creek Cemetery	29.42451	-100.6454
Saint Mary Magdalene Catholic Cemetery	29.31476	-100.40385
Seminole Indian Scout Cemetery	29.27273	-100.44257
Spofford City Cemetery	29.17416	-100.40575
Veterans of Foreign Wars Cemetery	29.31592	-100.40447
Vincent Cemetery	29.16646	-100.4064

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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