Upton County, Texas
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Upton County Federal Census
Thomas A. Spalding Burial Records
Upton County Cemeteries
Upton County Officials 1910-2007
Upton County Obituaries 1915-1998
History of First Baptist Church - Rankin
Post Office Box Rentals 1915, 1916, 1917
Electric Meter Orders -- West Texas Utilities
Original Petition for Post Office at Upland
Postmasters & Post Offices of Rankin, Texas
Upton County World War I & II Veterans
Upton County Lookups:
Upton County -- From the New Texas Handbook:
The Upton County archival holdings in the Rankin Museum include the
collections of Maggie Taylor, Opal Nix, Gertrude Smith,
Geneva Johnson, Ann Clark and many others. They are all
filed and catalogued. All Upton County
newspapers are on microfilm (with microfilm reader available) or are
bound. Over 200 area Texana books, genealogy books,
area microfilm census records and over 3,000 Upton County obituaries are in
chronological order. The photo file contains over 1,600 prints of Upland and Rankin
personalities and area scenes. The address for the Rankin Museum
is: The Rankin Museum, 100 W. 5th Street, P.O. Box 82, Rankin, Texas 79778.
UPTON COUNTY, located in southwest Texas south of Midland county,
is named for Confederate officers John C. and William F. Upton.
The county is in the Edwards Plateau vegetation region. At 2,300
to 3,000 feet above sea level, the northern portion of the county is
flat, while the southern section is rolling and hilly and has numerous small
lakes, which drain to the Middle Concho and Pecos rivers.
Earliest inhabitants were the Comanche and Apache Indians who lost their
domain to the US Army and the "advancing tide" of settlers in the 1870s and
1880s. In the 1860s the Chihuahua Trail from Mexico to Indianola
crossed the area, as did the Butterfield Overland Mail and the
Goodnight-Loving Trail.
Originally a part of Bexar county, Upton was part of Tom Green county
from 1874 until 1887 when Upton county was established. In 1890
census there were 52 people living in Upton county; 48 in 1900.
A public school was established in 1908, and in 1910 there were
105 ranches or farms. Population had grown to 501.
In fall 1911 the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway reached the
townsite of Rankin, which became the county seat in 1921.
A full page is devoted to Upton county in the New Texas Handbook, which
is recommended for further information.
The county clerk at Rankin, the county seat, has vital records
since 1910.
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