Created in 1858 and organized in 1876 from Hidalgo, Live Oak, Nueces, and Starr Counties. County Seat: San Diego 78384

Office of the County Clerk

COUNTY COURT MINUTES, 1893-1898

Reel 1017014        1893-1898 [Vol. C]
Note: Volumes A, B, and D of the County Court Minuts were destroyed in a courthouse fire.

DEED RECORD, 1877-1919

Reel 1017007        1877-1879 [Vol. A], 1877-1882 [Vol. B]
Reel 1017008        1878-1880 [Vol. C], 1880-1888 [Vol. D]
Reel 1017009        1880-1882 [Vol. E], 1881-1884 [Vol. F]
Reel 1017010        1882-1919 [Vol. G], 1881-1887 [Vol. H]
For indexes to the Deed Record from 1877 to 1939 request the following reels:
Reel 1017004        1877 to 1926
Reel 1017005        1877-1939 (Direct, A-K)
Reel 1017006        1877-1939 (Direct, L-Z)
Reel 1017006        Index to Deeds of Trust from 1880 to 1910
Deeds of trust were recorded in the Deed Record until 1892.  The post-1892 Deed of Trust Record was not filmed.

[HOMESTEADS] PURCHASE APPLICATIONS, 1882-1883

Reel 1017011        1882-1883 [Vol. D4]
Indexed in volume.

HOMESTEAD RECORD, 1881-1883

Reel 1017011        1881-1882 [Vol.. D1], 1882-1883 [Vol. D2]
Page number references in the index to [Homesteads] Purchase Applications refer to survey numbers in Volume D2 of the Homestead Record.  Volume D1 is not indexed.

MARRIAGE RECORD, 1877-1902

Reel 1017012       1877-1881 [Vol. A], 1881-1890 [Vol. B], 1890-1902 [Vol. C]
Volumes A and C are indexed in volume; Volume B is not indexed.

PROBATE MINUTES, 1877-1883; 1887-1901

Reel 1017013       1877-1883 [Vol. A], 1887-1901 [Vol. B]
An index to Volumes A-W of the Probate Minutes is on the same reel.  An earlier index to Volumes B-C only is also on the same reel.  Note: Probate minutes from 1883 to 1887 may have been in a volume of County Court Minutes destroyed by fire.
 

Office of the District Clerk

DISTRICT COURT CIVIL MINUTES, 1879-1908

Reel 1017015         1879-1885 [Vol. A], 1888-1896 [Vol. B]
Reel 1017016         1896-1908 [Vol. C]

  Office of the Tax Assessor-Collector

TAX ROLLS, 1887-1910

Reel 106601           1887-1899
Reel 106602           1889-1910
 
 

Requests for microfilm should be made to:

    South Texas Archives
    James C. Jernigan Library
    Texas A&M University-Kingsville
    Campus Box 197
    Kingsville, Texas 78363

  Email Sandra L. Rexroat, Director at s-rexroat@tamuk.edu