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Runnels County, Texas

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

—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
4historic places
—earliest paper
1858formed
9,900pop. 2020
25cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 4 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1975. Most listings are in or near Ballinger, Miles.

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 Runnels titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

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

4 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Ballinger Carnegie LibraryBallingerBuilding1975
Day, Edwin and Hattie, HouseBallingerBuilding1985
Thiele, J., BuildingMilesBuilding1976
Van Pelt HouseBallingerBuilding1980

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Runnels was formed in 1858 (1858-02-01) from Bexar Land District, Travis Land District.

RUNNELS created from Bexar Land District and Travis Land District.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Runnels County population from 1880 to 2020 (Census historical series).

22k11k980188019201950196020002020
188019001920194019501960198020002020
9805,37917,07418,90316,77115,01611,87211,4959,900

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

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

Cemeteries — 25 of 25 listed
NameLatLon
Brookshire Cemetery31.7404-100.21297
Castleberry Cemetery31.84029-100.19125
Content Cemetery32.03105-99.73517
Counts Cemetery32.0278-99.75375
Crews Cemetery31.94385-99.74431
Evergreen Cemetery31.63752-100.04041
Evergreen Cemetery31.71769-99.96615
Fairview Cemetery31.95708-99.98805
Hoffman Cemetery31.64122-99.85919
Lakeview Cemetery31.99153-99.95889
Latin American Cemetery31.74893-99.91548
Lutheran Cemetery31.95741-100.00402
Maverick Cemetery31.83404-100.20717
Miles Cemetery31.58848-100.19501
Northview Cemetery31.96626-99.96379
Norton Cemetery31.8719-100.16296
Norwood Cemetery31.81035-99.79003
Old Runnels Cemetery31.79052-99.9558
Pumphrey Cemetery32.03007-100.03915
Rowena Protestant Cemetery31.63363-100.04051
Saint Boniface Cemetery31.61099-99.96369
Saint Josephs Cemetery31.6354-100.04049
Walthall Cemetery31.69286-99.89104
Wilmeth Cemetery31.97149-100.1166
Wingate Cemetery32.0368-100.10628

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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