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County Courthouse
Delta County Courthouse
200 W Dallas Avenue
Cooper, TX 75432
Phone: 903.395.4110
County Clerk has birth, probate, and court records from 1903,
marriage records from 1870, death records from 1916 and land records[1]
History
Sometimes referred to as the Vetch Capital of the World. The first settlers arrived in the early 1840's.
Parent County
1870--Delta County was created 29 July 1870 from Hopkins and Lamar Counties. County seat: Cooper [2]
Boundary Changes
See an interactive map of Delta County border changes.
Record Loss
1899--The Delta County Courthouse at Cooper was destroyed by fire on 9 March 1899. Nearly all of the county records were stored in a fireproof vault and were saved. Records in the district clerk's office, probably records on current cases, were destroyed.[3]
Places/Localities
Populated Places
Antioch | Ben Franklin | Charleston | Cooper | Crossroads | Friendship | Horton | Jot Em Down (partly in Hunt County) | Kensing | Klondike | Lake Creek | Mt. Joy | Pacio | Pecan Gap | Prattville | Racetrack | Rattan | Yowell (partly in Hunt County)
Neighboring Counties
Resources
Cemeteries
Cemetery records often reveal birth, marriage, death, relationship, military, and religious information.
| Online Grave Transcripts | Published Grave Transcripts | County Cemetery Directories |
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Additional Cemetery Sources
- Delta County Cemetery List TXGenWeb
- FindAGrave - transcriptions and photographs
- Horton Cemetery - Interment.net
- Delta County Cemeteries maps, trancriptions, information
Census
| Historical populations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Census | Pop. | %± | |
| 1880 | 5,597 | ||
| 1890 | 9,117 | 62.9% | |
| 1900 | 15,249 | 67.3% | |
| 1910 | 14,566 | −4.5% | |
| 1920 | 15,887 | 9.1% | |
| 1930 | 13,138 | −17.3% | |
| 1940 | 12,858 | −2.1% | |
| 1950 | 8,964 | −30.3% | |
| 1960 | 5,860 | −34.6% | |
| 1970 | 4,927 | −15.9% | |
| 1980 | 4,839 | −1.8% | |
| 1990 | 4,857 | 0.4% | |
| 2000 | 5,327 | 9.7% | |
| 2010 | 5,231 | −1.8% | |
Church
Court
Land
After land was transferred to private ownership, subsequent transactions, including deeds and mortgages, have been recorded by the county. You can obtain copies of these land records by writing to the county clerk at the county courthouse. For more information, see Texas Land and Property.
The Family History Library Catalog lists microfilm copies of deeds, trust deeds, and mortgages of many counties.
Original Land Owners of Texas - USGenWeb Archives Project
Land Indices - TXGenWeb
Local Histories
Local histories are available for Delta County, Texas. County histories may include biographies, church, school and government history, and military information. For more information about local histories, see the wiki page section Texas Local Histories.
Maps
- Texas Counties Map. Click on the county to go to the TXGenWeb site.
- Maps of Delta County - TXGenWeb
Military
- Fighting Men of Delta County - USGenWeb
- Military Honorable Discharge Records - USGenWeb
- Army and Air Force Casualties - USGenWeb Archives Project
- Honor List of Dead and Missing - USGenWeb Archives Project
- Veteran's Record Book - TXGenWeb
Newspapers
Additional newspapers abstracts can sometimes be found using search phrases such as Delta County, Texas newspapers in online catalogs like:
- WorldCat (For instructions see WorldCat Online Catalog).
- Do a Delta County, Texas Place-name search for these and other records in the Family History Library Catalog (For instructions see FHL Catalog Place-name Search).
- Wikipedia has a list of online newspaper archives for Texas.
- Newspaperarchive.com ($) has historical newspapers available on-line. Their database has The Paris News from 1925 that may include residents from Delta County.
Obituaries
Obituaries of Delta County - TXGenWeb
Probate
Probate records of Texas have been kept by the probate clerk in each county courthouse. You can obtain copies of the records from the clerk's office. In most counties, all information pertaining to a probate case is recorded in the "probate minutes."
Content: Probate Records may give the decedent's date of death, names of his or her spouse, children, parents, siblings, in-laws, neighbors, associates, relatives, and their places of residence.
Record types: Wills, estates, guardianships, naturalizations, marriage, adoption, and birth and death records.
See the Wiki page Texas Probate Records for information about how to use probate records.
Taxation
Texas tax records complement land records and can be used in place of censuses or to supplement the years between censuses. Because only persons who owned taxable property were listed, many residents were not included in tax lists. There may also be gaps of several years in the tax records of some counties. For more information, see the wiki page Texas Taxation.
Texas County Tax Rolls, 1846-1910 lists FHL films with county tax lists. The lists vary by county and year. Most records are between the years of 1846 - 1910.
Vital Records
See Texas Vital Records for more information about Vital records in Texas. Vital Records consist of births, adoptions, marriages, divorces, and deaths recorded on registers, certificates, and documents. United States Vital Records has additional research guidance on researching and using vital records.
A copy or an extract of most original records can be purchased from the Texas Vital Records State Department of Health or the County Clerk's office of the county where the event occurred.
- Texas Death Index 1964 to 1998 [no images] Name index to Texas Statewide Death Certificates or four million people who have died since 1964.
- Texas Death Records 1890 – 1976 [with images]
Name index and images of statewide death certificates, 1890-1976. The name index has been created by FamilySearch and is tied to images of the Texas death certificates. Few certificates are available prior to 1903. - Delta County Marriage Records - USGenWeb Archives Project
- Divorces - USGenWeb Archives Project
Societies and Libraries
Family History Centers
Web Sites
- USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
- Family History Library Catalog
References
- ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Delta County, Texas. Page 662 At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002.
- ↑ The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).
- ↑ GenDisasters.com - Cooper, TX Delta County Courthouse Fire, Mar 1899 http://www3.gendisasters.com/texas/17957/cooper-tx-delta-county-courthouse-fire-mar-1899
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