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Wheeler County, Texas

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

4historic places

—earliest paper

1876formed

4,990pop. 2020

14cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 4 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1997. Most listings are in or near Shamrock, Mobeetie.

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 Wheeler titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

2 of 4 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

4 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Battle of Sweetwater Creek	Mobeetie	Site	2001
Route 66 Bridge over the Chicago, Rock Island and Gulf Railroad	Shamrock	Structure	2007
Route 66 in Wheeler County, Texas	Shamrock	District	2020
Tower Station	Shamrock	Building	1997

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Wheeler was formed in 1876 (1876-11-19) from Bexar Territory, Wegefarth.

WHEELER created from Bexar Territory and WEGEFARTH (extinct). Act passed 21 Aug 1876; took effect 19 Nov 1876.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Wheeler County population from 1880 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
512	636	7,397	12,411	10,317	7,947	7,137	5,284	4,990

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.
Washita Battlefield National Historic Site	Park unit	56.3 km

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

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

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

Cemeteries — 14 of 14 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Bowers Cemetery	35.21676	-100.26205
Center Cemetery	35.32854	-100.16806
Fort Elliott Cemetery	35.53024	-100.46642
George Turcotte Family Cemetery	35.56441	-100.30278
Harden Acres Cemetery	35.51581	-100.46188
Kelton Cemetery	35.40051	-100.09505
Lela Cemetery	35.22587	-100.34388
Mobeetie Cemetery	35.50175	-100.43855
Mount Zion Cemetery	35.60316	-100.46936
Pakan Cemetery	35.28503	-100.423
Rock Cemetery	35.47996	-100.10726
Shamrock Cemetery	35.2138	-100.22751
Wheeler Cemetery	35.43103	-100.2822
Zybach Cemetery	35.61921	-100.19068

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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