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McCulloch County, Texas

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

2historic places

—earliest paper

1856formed

7,630pop. 2020

16cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 2 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1975. Most listings are in or near Brady.

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 McCulloch titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

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

2 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
McCulloch County Courthouse	Brady	Building	1977
Old McCulloch County Jail	Brady	Building	1975

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Mcculloch was formed in 1856 (1856-08-27) from Bexar Land District.

McCULLOCH created from Bexar Land District.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

McCulloch County population from 1870 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1870	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
173	1,533	3,960	11,020	13,208	11,701	8,815	8,735	8,205	7,630

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

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

Cemeteries — 16 of 16 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Beasley Cemetery	31.45322	-99.10894
Camp San Saba Cemetery	30.98989	-99.25672
Carroll Colony Cemetery	31.16906	-99.3995
Chaffin Cemetery	31.45627	-99.41311
Cowboy Cemetery	31.3435	-99.11922
Cox Cemetery	31.45294	-99.12922
East Sweden Cemetery	31.16816	-99.25672
Fife Cemetery	31.39516	-99.37478
Live Oak Cemetery	31.14231	-99.33234
Lohn Cemetery	31.30933	-99.41033
Marion Cemetery	31.39905	-99.45728
Melvin Cemetery	31.19906	-99.59923
Rest Haven Cemetery	31.14295	-99.35422
Rochelle Cemetery	31.21461	-99.18922
Spiller Cemetery	31.021	-99.14172
Tabor Mountain Cemetery	30.97878	-99.127

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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