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Terry County, Texas

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1876formed

11,831pop. 2020

9cemeteries

—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 Terry 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

Terry was formed in 1876 (1876-11-19) from Young Territory.

TERRY created from Young Territory. Act passed 21 Aug 1876; took effect 19 Nov 1876.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1890	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
21	48	2,236	11,160	13,107	16,286	14,581	12,761	11,831

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

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

Cemeteries — 9 of 9 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
County Memorial Cemetery	33.19787	-102.29852
Foster Cemetery	33.06565	-102.32824
Gomez Cemetery	33.17648	-102.36102
Meadow Cemetery	33.35454	-102.2224
New Mount Zion Cemetery	33.19537	-102.29907
Old County Cemetery	33.18898	-102.29046
Old Mount Zion Cemetery	33.19204	-102.29963
Pride Cemetery	32.96482	-102.07906
Union Cemetery	33.0762	-102.20462

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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