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Zavala County, Texas

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

1historic places

—earliest paper

1858formed

9,670pop. 2020

8cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 1 listed property in the county, first listed in 2014. Most listings are in or near Crystal City.

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 Zavala titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

1 of 1 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

1 listed property

Property	City	Type	Listed
Crystal City Internment Camp	Crystal City	Site	2014

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Zavala was formed in 1858 (1858-02-01) from Maverick, Uvalde, Bexar Land District.

ZAVALA created from MAVERICK, UVALDE, and Bexar Land District.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
26	410	792	3,108	11,603	11,201	12,696	11,666	11,600	9,670

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

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

Cemeteries — 8 of 8 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Benito Juarez Cemetery	28.69977	-99.83608
Cometa Cemetery	28.6572	-100.01562
Edgewood Cemetery	28.68331	-99.81561
La Pryor Cemetery	28.94608	-99.86311
Loma Vista Cemetery	28.75442	-99.5831
Saint Patrick Cemetery	28.95691	-99.63061
Vivian Cemetery	28.66165	-100.00506
Woodlawn Cemetery	28.95636	-99.63144

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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