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Stonewall County, Texas

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1876formed

1,245pop. 2020

15cemeteries

—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

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National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

No listings found in the current NPS dataset.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Stonewall was formed in 1876 (1876-11-19) from Haskell, Young Territory.

STONEWALL created from HASKELL and Young Territory. Act passed 21 Aug 1876; took effect 19 Nov 1876.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
104	2,183	4,086	5,589	3,679	3,017	2,406	1,693	1,245

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

15 cemeteries and 1 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 15 of 15 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Aspermont Cemetery	33.13537	-100.26816
Brazos Valley Cemetery	33.34176	-100.31622
Double Mountain Cemetery	33.13726	-100.40907
Golden Pond Cemetery	33.26987	-100.44282
Hale Family Cemetery	33.0827	-100.00187
Hooker Cemetery	33.19552	-100.02542
Johnson Chapel Cemetery	33.06719	-100.34348
Lee Family Cemetery	33.09284	-100.29161
Moore Ranch Cemetery	32.98213	-100.22714
Mount Olive Cemetery	33.30724	-100.20206
Old Glory Cemetery	33.10829	-100.01838
Oriana Cemetery	33.18149	-100.44765
Rath City Boot Hill Cemetery	33.01136	-100.18143
Rayner Cemetery	33.09309	-100.09211
Shadle Cemetery	33.19648	-100.25038

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Oriana	33.18093	-100.44539

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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