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Real County, Texas

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

1historic places

—earliest paper

1913formed

2,758pop. 2020

4cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 1 listed property in the county, first listed in 1971. Most listings are in or near Camp Wood.

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 Real titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

0 of 1 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

1 listed property

Property	City	Type	Listed
Mission San Lorenzo de la Santa Cruz	Camp Wood	Site	1971

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Real was formed in 1913 (1913-04-03) from Bandera, Edwards, Kerr.

REAL created from BANDERA, EDWARDS, and KERR.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
1,461	2,420	2,479	2,079	2,469	3,047	2,758

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

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

Cemeteries — 4 of 4 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Clark Cemetery	29.62743	-99.83998
Cypress Creek Cemetery	29.80994	-99.67756
Exile Cemetery	29.62828	-99.85506
Garden of Memories	29.67386	-100.00379

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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