Matagorda County, Texas, United States

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Details for Matagorda County

Name

Matagorda County

Place Type

County

Located in

Texas, United States

County Seat

Bay City

Coordinates

Latitude		28.8502606		28° 51' 00.9" N
Longitude		-95.9502374		95° 57' 00.9" W

Population

36,928

Elevation

9 m

Surrounding Counties

Fort Bend N
Brazoria NE
Calhoun SW
Jackson W
Wharton NW

USGS GNIS FeatureID

1383943

Histopolis Place ID

906380406

Updated Apr 15, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Matagorda County

9 Resources; Select a Cemetery below for additional resources specific to that Cemetery.

Matagorda Co, TX Archives [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/tx/matagorda/matagtoc.htm (9 Jan 2010)

Cemeteries of Matagorda County Texas [Cemeteries of Texas]
http://www.cemeteries-of-tx.com/Etx/Matagorda/ListMatagorda.html (19 Feb 2007)

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=2680 (5 Sep 2009)

Matagorda County, Texas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matagorda_County,_Texas (4 Jul 2010)

The Political Graveyard: Matagorda County, Tex. [The Political Graveyard]
A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 192,291 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present.
http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/MA.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Texas > Matagorda County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Texas > Matagorda County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/TX/Matagorda/ (15 Feb 2010)

Matagorda Co., TX-Tombstone Transcription Project [USGenWeb Tombstone Transcription Project]
http://www.usgwtombstones.org/texas/matagorda.html (15 Aug 2010)

Matagorda County, Texas TX, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Matagorda County, Texas TX, county profile, with sections on demographics, cemeteries, the economy, government, history and politics.
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=22736 (28 Nov 2008)

Cemeteries in or near Matagorda County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=22736&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (31 Dec 2007)

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Cities of Matagorda County

2 Cities, 41 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Allenhurst	Ashby	Ashwood	At Last (historical u.p.)
Bay (city)	Blessing	Buckeye	Camp Hulen
Caney	Cedar Lake	Cedar Lane	Cedar Lane
Chalmers	Chinquapin	Chinquapin Landing	Citrus Grove
Clemville	Collegeport	Elmaton	Gainesmore
Gulf	Gulf Hill	Hawkinsville	Manhattan (historical u.p.)
Markham	Matagorda	McCroskey	Midfield
Palacios (city)	Pheasant	Pledger	Podo (historical u.p.)
Podo	Port Austin (historical u.p.)	Prairie Center	Rugeley
Rymers	Sargent	Simpsonville	Sugar Valley
Tin Top	Van Vleck	Wadsworth

Cemeteries of Matagorda County

21 Cemeteries, 1 Alternate Name (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Andrews	Ashby	Bay City	Berean
Blessing	Collegeport	Cornelius	Deming's Bridge (*)
East End	Free System	Free System	Grimes
Hawley	Hudgins	Lacy	Matagorda
Matthews	Partain	Pleasant Green	Sargent
Union	Williams

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