Place:Washington, Texas, United States

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NameWashington
Alt namesWashingtonsource: Getty Vocabulary Program
TypeCounty
Coordinates30.233°N 96.4°W
Located inTexas, United States     (1836 - )
See alsoLee, Texas, United StatesChild county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990)
Contained Places
Inhabited place
Berlin
Brenham
Burton
Chappell Hill
Daniels
Earlywine
Gay Hill
Goodwill
Graball
Greenvine
Independence
Klump
La Bahia
Latium
Longpoint
Mill Creek
Muellersville
Phillipsburg
Prairie Hill
Rehburg
Sandy Hill
Union Hill
Washington
Wesley
Wiedeville
William Penn
Zionville
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Washington County is a county in Texas. As of the 2020 census, the population was 35,805. Its county seat is Brenham, which is located along U.S. Highway 290 seventy-two miles northwest of Houston. The county was created in 1835 as a municipality of Mexico and organized as a county in 1837. It is named for George Washington, the first president of the United States.

Washington County comprises the Brenham, TX Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Houston-The Woodlands, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Washington-on-the-Brazos in the county is notable as the site of the signing of the Texas Declaration of Independence during the Convention of 1836. Reflecting the county's history as a destination of mid-19th-century German immigrants who came after the 1848 German revolutions, in the 2000 US Census more than one-third of residents identified as being of German ancestry.

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Timeline

Date Event Source
1832 Land records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1836 County formed Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1837 Marriage records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1837 Probate records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1840 Court records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1850 First census Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
1880 No significant boundary changes after this year Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
1903 Birth records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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Population History

source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
Census Year Population
1850 5,983
1860 15,215
1870 23,104
1880 27,565
1890 29,161
1900 32,931
1910 25,561
1920 26,624
1930 25,394
1940 25,387
1950 20,542
1960 19,145
1970 18,842
1980 21,998
1990 26,154
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