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Refugio County, Texas

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—newspaper titles

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5historic places

—earliest paper

1836formed

6,741pop. 2020

11cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 5 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1983. Most listings are in or near Refugio, Bayside.

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 Refugio titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

4 of 5 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

5 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Amon B. King's Men Monument	Refugio	Object	2018
Mission Nuestra Senora del Refugio Monument	Refugio	Object	2018
Mitchell-Simmons House	Refugio	Building	2024
Refugio County Courthouse	Refugio	Building	2002
Wood, John Howland, House	Bayside	Building	1983

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Refugio was formed in 1836 (1836-03-02) from unknown / original county.

Mexican municipality of REFUGIO became part of the Republic of Texas.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Refugio County population from 1850 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1850	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
288	1,600	1,585	1,641	4,050	10,383	10,113	10,975	9,289	7,828	6,741

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

11 cemeteries and 1 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 11 of 11 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Austwell Cemetery	28.39417	-96.86165
Heard Cemetery	28.28473	-97.29194
Holy Cross Cemetery	28.30362	-97.28471
La Rosa Cemetery	28.22668	-97.3111
Mount Calvary Cemetery	28.30223	-97.28277
Nicholas Fagan Memorial Cemetery	28.50722	-97.0061
O'Connor Cemetery	28.52222	-97.07277
Oakwood Cemetery	28.27556	-97.29166
Saint Bernard Cemetery	28.23612	-97.3111
Saint Marys Cemetery	28.45056	-96.87554
Williams Cemetery	28.30751	-97.31499

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Black Point	28.08696	-97.25999

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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