Uvalde County, Texas

Founding: 1856 (declared in 1850)
Parent county: Bexar

Namesake: Juan de Ugalde, Spanish soldier
Seat: Uvalde (1856–)

Land area: 1,552 square miles

Population (2020): 24,564

Population (historic): 506 (1860); 2,541 (1880); 4,647 (1900); 12,945 (1930)

Periods of population growth: pre-1860–1910; 1920–2010

Subdivisions: Two cities; three CDPs

National Register listings: 11

Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 811 (7.3%)
Pre-1940 housing survival rate: 30.2%

Farm housing in disrepair (1950): 19%

Nonfarm housing in disrepair (1950): 18.4%

Average farmhouse value (1930): $1,190
Average outbuilding value (1930): $832
Average farmhouse size (1940): 4 rooms
Number of farms (1920): 706
Average farm size (1920): 144.5 acres
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Uvalde

Namesake: Juan de Ugalde, Spanish soldier

Founding: 1853 (platting as Encina); 1857 (post office); 1888 (incorporation)

Population (2020): 15,217

Population (historic): 794 (1880); 1,889 (1900); 5,286 (1930)

Periods of population growth: pre-1880–1910; 1920–2010
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 369 (6.6%)
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Outstanding Buildings

1. *Thompson Farm (c. 1885). 4607 Rural Road 187. Italianate.
2. *Binion House (c. 1860). Rural Road 187, north of Rural Road 389. Razed.
3. *Habermacher House (c. 1860/1890). 25114 US Highway 90.
4. *Frederick Rheiner Farm (c. 1885). US Highway 90, west of the Sabinal River.