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Shackelford County, Texas

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

5historic places

—earliest paper

1858formed

3,105pop. 2020

6cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 5 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1971. Most listings are in or near Albany, Fort Griffin.

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 Shackelford titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

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

5 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Fort Griffin	Albany	Site	1971
Fort Griffin Brazos River Bridge	Fort Griffin	Site	1979
Hubbard Creek Bridge	Albany	Structure	1996
Shackelford County Courthouse Historic District	Albany	District	1976
State Highway 23 Bridge at the Clear Fork of the Brazos River	Albany	Structure	1996

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Shackelford was formed in 1858 (1858-02-01) from Young Territory.

SHACKELFORD created from Young Territory and Non-County Area 22 attached to BOSQUE.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Shackelford County population from 1860 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
44	2,037	2,461	4,960	6,211	5,001	3,990	3,915	3,302	3,105

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

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

Cemeteries — 6 of 6 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Fort Griffin Cemetery	32.94928	-99.2353
Greer Cemetery	32.59611	-99.23803
Johnson Cemetery	32.57318	-99.17369
Lynch Cemetery	32.69012	-99.17924
Moran Cemetery	32.5435	-99.13984
Parrish Cemetery	32.64596	-99.17119

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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