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Sutton County, Texas

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

—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
3historic places
—earliest paper
1887formed
3,372pop. 2020
1cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 3 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1977. Most listings are in or near Sonora.

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 Sutton titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

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

3 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Old Mercantile BuildingSonoraBuilding1978
Sutton County CourthouseSonoraBuilding1977
deBerry RanchSonoraDistrict2011

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Sutton was formed in 1887 (1887-04-01) from Crockett.

SUTTON created from CROCKETT.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

5,1302,89465818901920196020002020
189019001920194019501960198020002020
6581,7271,5983,9773,7463,7385,1304,0773,372

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

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

Cemeteries — 1 of 1 listed
NameLatLon
Sonora Cemetery30.57917-100.63898

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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