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

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.

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