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Kleberg County, Texas

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

6historic places

—earliest paper

1913formed

31,040pop. 2020

8cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 6 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1974. Most listings are in or near Kingsville, Corpus Christi.

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 Kleberg titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

3 of 6 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

6 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Dunn Ranch, Novillo Line Camp	Corpus Christi	Site	1974
King, Henrietta M., High School	Kingsville	Building	1983
Kingsville Downtown Historic District	Kingsville	District	2018
Kleberg County Courthouse	Kingsville	Building	2010
Nance-Jones House	Kingsville	Building	2006
Ragland, John B., Mercantile Company Building	Kingsville	Building	1993

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Kleberg was formed in 1913 (1913-02-27) from small remnants of CAMERON, from NUECES.

KLEBERG created from small remnants of CAMERON, and from NUECES.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
7,837	13,344	21,991	30,052	33,358	31,549	31,040

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).

Site	Type	Dist.
Padre Island National Seashore	Park unit	56.7 km

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

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

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

Cemeteries — 8 of 8 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Canales Cemetery	27.33949	-97.91611
Chamberlain Cemetery	27.50517	-97.8791
Kingsville Resthaven Cemetery	27.4843	-97.88186
Laureles Cemetery	27.53222	-97.51577
Our Lady of Consolation Cemetery	27.33618	-97.75142
Riviera Cemetery	27.30365	-97.81825
San Fernando Cemetery	27.47658	-97.80814
Santa Gertrudis Memorial Cemetery	27.50498	-97.88223

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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