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Wilbarger County, Texas

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

2historic places

—earliest paper

1858formed

12,887pop. 2020

5cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 2 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1979. Most listings are in or near Odell, Vernon.

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 Wilbarger titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

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

2 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Doan's Adobe House	Odell	Building	1979
Plaza Theater	Vernon	Building	2023

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Wilbarger was formed in 1858 (1858-02-01) from Young Territory.

WILBARGER created from Young Territory.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
126	5,759	15,112	20,474	20,552	17,748	15,931	14,676	12,887

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

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

Cemeteries — 5 of 5 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Bell Cemetery	34.36814	-99.37203
Eastview Memorial Cemetery	34.14564	-99.2323
Mack Cemetery	33.89815	-99.1823
Ronda Cemetery	33.93759	-98.99201
Wilbarger Memorial Park	34.10898	-99.35147

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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