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Scurry County, Texas

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1876formed

16,932pop. 2020

8cemeteries

—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 Scurry 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

Scurry was formed in 1876 (1876-11-19) from Young Territory.

SCURRY created from Young Territory. Act passed 21 Aug 1876; took effect 19 Nov 1876.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
102	4,158	9,003	11,545	22,779	20,369	18,192	16,361	16,932

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

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

Cemeteries — 8 of 8 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Bluff Creek Cemetery	32.58789	-101.05512
Camp Springs Cemetery	32.75622	-100.70789
Cottonwood Flat Cemetery	32.89177	-100.699
Fluvanna Cemetery	32.87538	-101.13707
Hermleigh Cemetery	32.63872	-100.74539
Lone Wolf Cemetery	32.53206	-100.734
Pyron Cemetery	32.609	-100.699
Snyder Cemetery	32.73316	-100.8979

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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