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Wharton County, Texas

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

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32historic places

—earliest paper

1846formed

41,570pop. 2020

15cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 32 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1991. Most listings are in or near Wharton.

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 Wharton titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

29 of 32 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

32 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Banker, Willie, Jr., House	Wharton	Building	1993
Bernstein, Moses, House	Wharton	Building	1993
Bolton-Outlar House	Wharton	Building	1993
Colorado River Bridge	Wharton	Structure	1993
Croom, Wiley J., House	Wharton	Building	1993
Dannon, F. F., House	Wharton	Building	1993
Davidson, Dr. Green, House	Wharton	Building	1993
Davis, Ben and Mary, House	Wharton	Building	1993
Elkins, Nettie, House	Wharton	Building	1993
Elliott, E. Clyde and Mary, House	Wharton	Building	1993
First Methodist Episcopal Church South, Old	Wharton	Building	1993
Garrett, Henry B., House	Wharton	Building	1993
Garrett, John A. and Sophie, House	Wharton	Building	1993
Gifford, George C. and Annie, House	Wharton	Building	1993
Hamilton, Joseph Andrew, House	Wharton	Building	1993
Harrison, Gerard A., House	Wharton	Building	1993
Harrison-Dennis House	Wharton	Building	1993
Hawes, Edwin, House	Wharton	Building	1993
Hawes, Edwin, Jr., House	Wharton	Building	1993
House at 401 North Richmond	Wharton	Building	1993
House at 512 North Resident	Wharton	Building	1993
Linn Street Historic District	Wharton	District	1993
Merrell-Roten House	Wharton	Building	1993
Moran-Moore House	Wharton	Building	1993
Speaker, J. H., House	Wharton	Building	1993
St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church	Wharton	Building	1993
Stephen F. Austin Elementary School	Wharton	Building	2022
Texas and New Orleans Railroad Bridge	Wharton	Structure	1993
Texas and New Orleans Railroad Depot	Wharton	Building	1993
West Milam Street Mercantile Historic District	Wharton	District	1993
Wharton County Courthouse Historic Commercial District	Wharton	District	1991
Worthing, Louis F., House	Wharton	Building	1993

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Wharton was formed in 1846 (1846-04-03) from Colorado, Jackson.

WHARTON created from COLORADO, JACKSON, and all of Non-County Area 5 (which was eliminated).

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1850	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
1,752	3,380	4,549	16,942	24,288	36,158	36,077	38,152	40,242	41,188	41,570

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

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

Cemeteries — 15 of 15 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Camp Zion Cemetery	29.3883	-96.19107
Czech National Cemetery	29.54552	-96.08913
Elm Grove Cemetery	29.45747	-96.30969
Frazer Cemetery	29.48858	-96.3058
Garden of Memories	29.17859	-96.29997
Hahn Cemetery	29.28136	-96.38608
Little Zion Cemetery	29.37025	-96.09079
Mackay Cemetery	29.26608	-96.14274
Middle Bernard Cemetery	29.53663	-96.1069
Oaklawn Memorial Park	29.24219	-96.30552
Old Jerusalem Cemetery	29.38155	-96.16811
Saint Phillips Cemetery	29.18025	-96.25858
Saint Procopius Cemetery	29.12639	-96.41792
Shiloh Cemetery	29.26025	-95.94634
Swedish Cemetery	29.17831	-96.28524

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Taiton	29.37455	-96.37774

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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