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Val Verde County, Texas

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

—newspaper titles

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13historic places

—earliest paper

1885formed

47,586pop. 2020

7cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 13 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1970; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Comstock, Del Rio, Langtry.

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 Val Verde titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

3 of 13 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

13 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Cassinelli Gin House	Del Rio	Building	1986
Del Rio Cemeteries Historic District	Del Rio	District	2003
Lower Pecos Canyon Archeological District	Comstock	District	1971
Lower Pecos Canyonlands Archeological District NHL	Comstock	District
Mile Canyon	Langtry	District	1970
Rattlesnake Canyon Site	Langtry	Site	1971
San Felipe Creek Archeological District	Del Rio	Site	1974
Seminole Canyon Archeological District	Comstock	District	1971
Seminole Canyon District (Boundary Increase)	Comstock	District	1985
Seven Mile Ranch Archeological District	Comstock	District	1990
Southern Pacific Passenger Depot	Del Rio	Building	2026
Val Verde County Courthouse And Jail	Del Rio	Building	1977
West of Pecos Railroad Camps District	Comstock	District	1973

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Val Verde was formed in 1885 (1885-03-24) from Crockett, Kinney, Pecos.

VAL VERDE created from CROCKETT, KINNEY, and PECOS.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1890	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
2,874	5,263	12,706	15,453	16,635	24,461	35,910	44,856	47,586

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

Site	Type	Dist.
Amistad National Recreation Area	Park unit	39.8 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

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

Cemeteries — 7 of 7 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Babb Cemetery	29.80604	-101.55984
Juno Cemetery	30.18019	-101.09316
Newman Cemetery	29.86243	-100.91579
Oaklawn Memorial Park	29.3694	-100.82509
Old San Felipe Cemetery	29.34467	-100.88259
San Felipe Cemetery	29.34912	-100.88037
Westlawn Cemetery	29.36245	-100.91926

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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