Welcome to The TXGenWeb site for Castro County, Texas. This site is part of the TXGenWeb project, operated by volunteers and dedicated to putting genealogy research online free to researchers. My name is Cynthia Samples and I am the County Coordinator. We are in need of research information. I do not live in Castro County and do not have access to any resources, so I am going to ask your help. If you have any information that you believe would be beneficial to researchers, I would like to hear from you

Castro County is located in the western Panhandle on the Texas High Plains. The county was named for Henri Castro, the empresario who was consul general to Paris for the Republic of Texas. Castro county, Texas was created August 21, 1876 from Bexar District and organized in 1891. County seat is Dimmitt.