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Sherman County, Texas

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—newspaper titles
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0historic places
—earliest paper
1876formed
2,782pop. 2020
5cemeteries
—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 Sherman 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

Sherman was formed in 1876 (1876-11-19) from Bexar Territory.

SHERMAN created from Bexar Territory. Act passed 21 Aug 1876; took effect 19 Nov 1876.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

3,6571,8453418901920196020002020
189019001920194019501960198020002020
341041,4732,0262,4432,6053,1743,1862,782

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

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

Cemeteries — 5 of 5 listed
NameLatLon
Coldwater Cemetery36.25593-101.91989
Stratford Cemetery36.33224-102.07881
Texhoma Cemetery36.48862-101.79168
Texhoma Mennonite Cemetery36.4592-101.73009
Whaley Cemetery36.15698-102.11629

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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