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Zapata County, Texas

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

6historic places

—earliest paper

1858formed

13,889pop. 2020

10cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 6 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1973; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near San Ygnacio, Laredo.

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 Zapata titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

3 of 6 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

6 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Corralitos Ranch	San Ygnacio	Site	1977
Dolores Nuevo	Laredo	District	1973
Dolores Viejo	San Ygnacio	Site	1973
San Francisco Ranch	San Ygnacio	Site	1977
San Ygnacio Historic District	San Ygnacio	District	1973
Trevino-Uribe Rancho NHL	San Ygnacio	Building	1973

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Zapata was formed in 1858 (1858-01-22) from Starr, Webb.

ZAPATA created from STARR and WEBB.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Zapata County population from 1860 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
1,248	3,636	4,760	2,929	3,916	4,405	4,393	6,628	12,182	13,889

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

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

Cemeteries — 10 of 10 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Cameron Cemetery	27.02171	-99.04975
Cementerio del Pueblo	27.03225	-99.44004
Garcia Cemetery	26.82227	-99.17198
Gracia Cemetery	27.03754	-99.07253
New Ramireno Cemetery	27.0192	-99.38532
Old Raotireno Cemetery	26.99864	-99.39226
Ranchito Cemetery	26.93309	-99.29865
Urebeno Cemetery	26.95337	-99.30143
Uribe Cemetery	27.04836	-99.44115
Zapata Cemetery	26.89032	-99.2817

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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