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Moore County, Texas

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

0historic places

—earliest paper

1876formed

21,358pop. 2020

6cemeteries

—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 Moore 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

Moore was formed in 1876 (1876-11-19) from Bexar Territory.

MOORE created from Bexar Territory. Act passed 21 Aug 1876; took effect 19 Nov 1876.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Moore County population from 1890 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1890	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
15	209	571	4,461	13,349	14,773	16,575	20,121	21,358

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.
Lake Meredith National Recreation Area	Park unit	30.6 km
Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument	Park unit	33.5 km

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

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

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

Cemeteries — 6 of 6 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Brown Cemetery	36.03894	-101.81203
Dumas Cemetery	35.85188	-101.98077
Lane Memorial Cemetery	36.03774	-101.81208
Northlawn Memorial Gardens	35.91907	-101.97569
Palo Duro Cemetery	35.93707	-101.68721
Record Cemetery	35.73024	-101.63332

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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