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Victoria County, Texas

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—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
117historic places
—earliest paper
1836formed
91,319pop. 2020
26cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 117 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1971. Most listings are in or near Victoria, City of Victoria, Inez.

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 Victoria titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

112 of 117 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

117 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Alden, C. R., BuildingVictoriaBuilding1986
Alonso, Frank, HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
B'nai IsrealVictoriaBuilding1986
Barden-O'Connor HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Barnes, W. C., HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Bendt, E. H. D., HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Bernhard Electric BuildingVictoriaBuilding2024
Bettin, Max, HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Braman HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Buhler, Theodore, HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Building at 205 East ConstitutionVictoriaBuilding1986
Burrough-Daniel HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Calhoun BakeryVictoriaBuilding1986
Callender HouseVictoriaBuilding1979
City of Victoria Pumping Plant-WaterworksCity of VictoriaBuilding1986
Clark HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Clark, Robert, HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Clegg, John H., HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Crain, F. H., HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
DeLeon Plaza and BandstandVictoriaSite1987
Diebel-Hyak HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Farmers and Merchants Cotton Gin WarehouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Fleming-Welder HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Fort St. Louis SiteInezSite1971
Fossati'sVictoriaBuilding1991
Fossati, E. J., HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Fox, Jacob, HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Gaylord-Levy HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Gervais HouseVictoriaBuilding1990
Goldman's Cotton Gin WarehouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Goldman, A., BuildingVictoriaBuilding1986
Gramann HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Hauschild, George H., BuildingVictoriaBuilding1986
Hauschild, George and Adele, HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Hill-Howard HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Hiller HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Hiller HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
House at 1602 North MoodyVictoriaBuilding1986
House at 1907 Southwest Ben JordanVictoriaBuilding1986
House at 304 West StaytonVictoriaBuilding1986
House at 306 East ForrestVictoriaBuilding1986
House at 401 East StaytonVictoriaBuilding1986
House at 402 W. ColoradoVictoriaBuilding1991
House at 407 East ConventVictoriaBuilding1986
House at 4402 East Juan LinnVictoriaBuilding1986
House at 604 East Santa RosaVictoriaBuilding1986
House at 702 SiegfriedVictoriaBuilding1986
House at 706 SiegfriedVictoriaBuilding1986
House at 804 SiegfriedVictoriaBuilding1986
Hull HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Jecker, E. J., HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Jecker, J. T., HouseVictoriaBuilding1987
Jordan-Koch HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Kaufman, E. C., HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Keef-Filley BuildingVictoriaBuilding1987
Lander-Hopkins HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Lane-Tarkington HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Lawrence HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Leffland, Jules, HouseVictoriaBuilding1991
Levi-Welder HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Little HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Martin-Fiek-Thumford, Vera, HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
McCabe BuildingVictoriaBuilding1986
McCan-Nave HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
McDonald HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
McFaddin, James, HouseVictoriaBuilding1987
McNamara-O'Conner HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Mission Creek Dam and Acequia SiteVictoriaSite1980
Mitchell, Guy, HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Moeller HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Mohris-Abschier HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Murphy, Mrs. J. V., HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Nave, Royston, MemorialVictoriaBuilding1986
O'Connor, Thomas M., HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
O'Connor-Proctor BuildingVictoriaBuilding1986
Old Brownson SchoolVictoriaBuilding1986
Old Federal Building and Post OfficeVictoriaBuilding1986
Old Municipal Assembly HallVictoriaBuilding1986
Old Nazareth AcademyVictoriaBuilding1986
Old Victoria County CourthouseVictoriaBuilding1977
Our Lady of Lourdes ChurchVictoriaBuilding1986
Pela HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Phillips, Judge Alexander H., HouseVictoriaBuilding1983
Pickering HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Pippert HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Presbyterian Iglesia NiceaVictoriaBuilding1992
Proctor HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Proctor-Vandenberge HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Randall BuildingVictoriaBuilding1986
Regan, D. H., HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Roselle-Smith HouseVictoriaBuilding1990
Saint Mary's Catholic ChurchVictoriaBuilding1986
Schroeder HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Schummacker Company BuildingVictoriaBuilding1986
Sengele, Alphonse T., HouseVictoriaBuilding1992
Shrader, Henry, HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Sigmund HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
South Bridge Street Historic DistrictVictoriaDistrict1986
Stuart HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Tasin HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Texas Company Filling StationVictoriaBuilding1986
Tonkawa Bank SiteVictoriaSite1981
Townsend-Wilkins HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Trinity Lutheran ChurchVictoriaBuilding1986
Urban, Fred, HouseVictoriaBuilding1992
Vandenberge, J. V., HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Victoria Colored SchoolVictoriaBuilding1986
Victoria County MonumentVictoriaObject2018
Victoria Grist WindmillVictoriaStructure1976
Weber-Schuchert HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Webster Chapel United Methodist ChurchVictoriaBuilding1986
Welder, Robert H., HouseVictoriaBuilding1999
Wheeler, William, HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Willeke SiteVictoriaSite1978
Williams, B. F., HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Woodhouse HouseVictoriaBuilding1986
Zahn, Herman and Alvina, HouseVictoriaBuilding1986

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Victoria was formed in 1836 (1836-03-02) from unknown / original county.

Mexican municipality of VICTORIA became part of the Republic of Texas.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Victoria County population from 1850 to 2020 (Census historical series).

91k47k2,0191850188019201940196020002020
18501860188019001920194019501960198020002020
2,0194,1716,28913,67818,27123,74131,24146,47568,80784,08891,319

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

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

Cemeteries — 26 of 26 listed
NameLatLon
Bischoff Cemetery28.94804-96.80526
De Leon Cemetery28.8763-97.10928
De la Garza Cemetery28.55833-97.09527
Evergreen Cemetery28.81138-97.00999
Fagan Cemetery28.5957-97.15288
Farrer Cemetery28.88304-96.81276
Fordtran Cemetery29.06026-96.99804
Guadalupe Cemetery28.89332-97.18388
Hirchhauser Cemetery28.88582-96.82443
Jewett Cemetery28.76555-96.98054
Joshua Cemetery28.71166-97.02165
McDonald Cemetery28.68583-97.0386
Memory Gardens Cemetery28.87443-97.04499
Mission Valley Cemetery28.85249-97.1711
Murphy Cemetery28.85693-97.09138
Nursery Cemetery28.9361-97.0961
Oliver Cemetery28.90165-97.05832
Pleasant Green Cemetery28.77888-96.97804
Reeves Cemetery28.71444-97.06832
Rydolph Cemetery28.53972-96.95499
Sample Cemetery28.56333-97.13499
San Jose Cemetery28.63555-96.93471
Shillerville Cemetery28.77277-96.85026
Stiger Cemetery28.535-96.98304
Terrell Cemetery28.5951-97.1443
Woodlawn Cemetery28.84415-97.16166

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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