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Welcome to Winkler County. You will be seeing some major changes to the site in the near future. I plan to be adding as much new content as possible. If you have any information you would like to have added, please feel free to let me know and I will try to locate a resource or if you have information you would like to donate, we can get that published for you. Please feel free to reach out with any questions you may have.
Submissions
We accept any kind of record that reflects the history of the area or contains information on its inhabitants. We are especially interested in transcriptions of original records like (but not limited to) marriage, birth and death indexes, marriage, birth and death certificates, land records, military records, Family Bible records, census records, wills and their probates, or lists of cemetery burials. We would love to include your information on this site whether it contains information on one person or a thousand. If you have something of interest, please contact me.
TSHA:
Winkler County is mostly in the Pecos Valley of West Texas; its northeastern section is on the Llano Estacado. The county is adjacent to the southeastern corner of New Mexico. Kermit, the county seat, is forty miles west of Odessa. The center of the county lies at 31°40' north latitude and 103°03' west longitude. Winkler County comprises 840 square miles of gently rolling to level terrain. Stretching diagonally across the central section of the county is a belt of sand dunes, which are active, windblown, and raised as much as thirty to forty feet above the surrounding surface. Soils are dark-brown to reddish-brown neutral sands, sandy loams, clay loams, and some shallow calcareous clay loams. The nearly flat surface of the county has insignificant drainage. Rainfall is collected in many large and small playas. Several small gullies head along Concho Bluff, a west-facing escarpment, which defines the edge of the Caprock. Two intermittent draws-Cheyenne and Monument-run through the central and west central areas of the county. Vegetation consists of grasses, scrub brush, creosotebush, cacti, and scattered mottes of willows and wild plums. Altitudes vary from 2,671 to 3,193 feet above sea level. Temperatures vary from average lows of 28° F in January to average highs of 97° in July. Average rainfall is twelve inches per year. The growing season extends 220 days. Large annual yields of oil and gas place the county among the leading petroleum producers in the state.
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