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Reeves County, Texas

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0historic places

—earliest paper

1883formed

14,748pop. 2020

15cemeteries

—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

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National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

No listings found in the current NPS dataset.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Reeves was formed in 1883 (1883-04-14) from Pecos.

REEVES created from PECOS.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1890	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
1,247	1,847	4,457	8,006	11,745	17,644	15,801	13,137	14,748

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

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

Cemeteries — 15 of 15 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Balmorhea Cemetery	30.98753	-103.76617
Boyd Family Cemetery	31.27796	-103.13502
Brogado Cemetery	30.98958	-103.72554
Dean Memorial Park	31.41708	-103.49462
Fairview Cemetery	31.41597	-103.50295
Greenwood Cemetery	31.40243	-103.54101
Lara Cemetery	31.59045	-103.54056
Mount Evergreen Cemetery	31.39982	-103.53979
Old Pecos Cemetery	31.43098	-103.48908
Old Settlers Cemetery	31.40041	-103.54103
Santa Rosa Cemetery	31.4242	-103.48431
Saragosa Cemetery	31.0298	-103.65911
Toyah Catholic Cemetery	31.30982	-103.78229
Toyah New Cemetery	31.32978	-103.81375
Toyah Old Cemetery	31.31816	-103.79099

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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