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Texas. (2020) Wilson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 49,753. [ 1 ] Its county seat is Floresville. [ 2 ] The county is named after James Charles Wilson. Wilson County is part of the San Antonio – New Braunfels, Texas, metropolitan statistical area.
This is intended to be a complete list of properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Wilson County, Texas. There are four properties listed on the National Register in the county. One property is a World Heritage Site, another is a State Antiquities Landmark and includes a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, and two more are ...
Website. www.floresvilletx.gov. Floresville is a city in Wilson County, Texas, United States. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, its population was at 7,203 at the 2020 Census. [6] It is the county seat of Wilson County. [7] The city is also part of the San Antonio metropolitan statistical area.
La Vernia, Texas. La Vernia is a city in Wilson County, Texas, United States. La Vernia is on the south bank of Cibolo Creek at the junction of U.S. Highway 87 and Texas Farm to Market Road 775, approximately 25 miles east of downtown San Antonio. [4] The population was 1,077 at the 2020 census. [5][6] La Vernia is part of the San Antonio ...
The Wilson County Courthouse and Jail are located in Floresville, Texas. They were added to the National Register of Historic Places in Texas in 1978 and the courthouse as a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1984. Architect Alfred Giles used local brick for the Italianate design. The courthouse was remodeled in the 1930s, when the bricks were ...
The town of Wilson was established in 1912 by William Dickson Green of Shiner, Texas, and Lonnie Lumsden. [4] Early settlers included German and Polish emigrant farmers who acquired property on former Wilson County School lands located in Lynn County, hence the city's name. [5][6] Wilson was founded in anticipation that the Panhandle and Santa ...
Union is a populated place and CDP in Wilson County, Texas, United States. The area is named for the local ghost town that was originally named "Union Valley." Today, the extant community of Union is located on FM Road 1681, about 56 miles southeast of San Antonio. The cemetery—still visible—used by the town's early inhabitants, contains ...
Early history. The town of Kosciusko was founded on March 12, 1880 in Wilson County, Texas when approximately 65 Polish families moved north from the neighboring town of Cestohowa in search of better farm land. The area they settled was previously known as "Little Egypt" and had been settled by a small handful of German families circa 1850.