Winkler County, Texas

Founding: 1910 (declared in 1887)
Parent county: Tom Green

Namesake: Clinton Winkler, Texas politician
Seat: Kermit (1910–)

Land area: 841 square miles

Population (2020): 7,791

Population (historic): 442 (1910); 81 (1920); 6,784 (1930)

Periods of population growth: 1890–1910; 1920s; 1940–1960; 1970s; 2010s

Subdivisions: Two cities

National Register listings: One

Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 14 (0.5%)
Pre-1940 housing survival rate: 6.7%

Farm housing in disrepair (1950): 12.8%

Nonfarm housing in disrepair (1950): 10.7%

Average farmhouse value (1930): $638
Average outbuilding value (1930): $1,145
Average farmhouse size (1940): 3.8 rooms
Number of farms (1920): 27
Average farm size (1920): 13.6 acres
Sources of settlement: Texas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Arkansas
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Kermit

Namesake: Uncertain—perhaps Kermit Roosevelt, son of Theodore Roosevelt

Founding: 1910 (platting); 1910 (post office); 1938 (incorporation)

Population (2020): 6,267

Population (historic): 2,584 (1940)

Periods of population growth: pre-1940–1960; 2010s
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 6 (0.2%)

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