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Throckmorton County, Texas

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

1historic places

—earliest paper

1858formed

1,440pop. 2020

6cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 1 listed property in the county, first listed in 1978. Most listings are in or near Throckmorton.

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 Throckmorton titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

1 of 1 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

1 listed property

Property	City	Type	Listed
Throckmorton County Courthouse and Jail	Throckmorton	Building	1978

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Throckmorton was formed in 1858 (1858-01-13) from Young Territory.

THROCKMORTON created from Young Territory and Non-County Area 22 attached to BOSQUE.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Throckmorton County population from 1860 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
124	711	1,750	3,589	4,275	3,618	2,767	2,053	1,850	1,440

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
Bush Knob Cemetery	33.0965	-99.14341
Ledbetter Cemetery	32.96122	-99.19924
Mathiews Cemetery	32.97289	-98.98396
Reynolds Bend Cemetery	33.064	-99.32619
Smith Cemetery	32.99373	-98.98293
Treadwell Cemetery	33.04614	-99.26458

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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