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Somervell County, Texas

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

4historic places

—earliest paper

1875formed

9,205pop. 2020

6cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 4 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1979. Most listings are in or near Glen Rose.

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 Somervell titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

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

4 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Barnard's Mill	Glen Rose	Building	1982
Glen Rose Downtown Historic District	Glen Rose	District	2014
Oakdale Park	Glen Rose	District	2012
Somervell County Courthouse	Glen Rose	Building	1979

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Somervell was formed in 1875 (1875-03-13) from HOOD [county name was incorrectly spelled "SOMERVILLE".

SOMERVELL created from HOOD [county name was incorrectly spelled "SOMERVILLE"; see 20 Nov 1876].

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
2,649	3,498	3,563	3,071	2,542	2,577	4,154	6,809	9,205

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
Lanham Mill Cemetery	32.24653	-97.83225
Nancy Smith Cemetery	32.18514	-97.86559
Oldham Cemetery	32.25237	-97.69864
Post Oak Cemetery	32.28153	-97.80614
Squaw Creek Cemetery	32.2623	-97.71949
Ward Branch Cemetery	32.18014	-97.79364

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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