Welcome

Howard County is located in the high plains at the eastern tip of the Permian Basin and at the foot of the Edwards Plateau. The county was formed from Bexar County on August 21, 1876, and named for Volney Erskine Howard, a United States congressman from Texas in the 1840s and 1850s but not organized until 1882. There were no settlers until after the Civil War and the first were ranchers, including C. C. Slaughter's Long S Ranch.

Resources

On-Site

Businesses Cemeteries Census Records Churches Families History Local Information Lookups Maps Marriage Records Military Records Newspaper Articles Obituaries Photographs Queries Schools Surnames Surrounding Counties

Off-Site

Howard Archives Other TXGenWeb Counties Portal to Texas History Query Board

Communities

(g) = ghost town
Big Spring
Chalkton/Otis Chalk
Coahoma
Elbow
Fairview
Forsan
Knott
Lomax
Luther
Midway
Morita
Morris
Ross City
Sand Springs
Soash (g)
South Haven
Vealmoor
Vincent
Webb Village
Ziler

Publications

Pantagraph (1883)
Enterprise (1898)
Daily Adventure (1899)
Big Spring News (1903)
Big Spring Herald (1904)
Howard County 1882-1982
Gettin' Started - Howard County's First 25 Years
Souvenir History Album-Centennial, May 1981