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My name is LaRae Halsey-Brooks (a Hutchinson County native!), and my daughter Eireann and I are the TXGenWeb County Co-Coordinators for Hutchinson County.

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TXGenWeb State Coordinator - Gina Heffernan
Asst State Coordinators -
Jane Keppler, Carla Clifton,
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County of the Month

-LaRae & Eireann

About Hutchinson County

Hutchinson County, in the north central section of the Panhandle, is bounded on the north by Hansford County, on the east by Roberts County, on the south by Carson County, and on the West by Moore County. The county was named for pioneer jurist Anderson Hutchinson.

The Canadian River, fed by several small creeks, angles across the county from southwest to northeast; in the southwest it is dammed to form Lake Meredith. Broken land along the river and its tributaries forms fertile valleys. The northern part of the county is high rolling plain. Beef cattle, hogs, and poultry are also raised there, and irrigated land amounts to more than 40,000 acres. Since the 1920s, petroleum has been the chief industry; the southern part of Hutchinson County is the center of oil, gas, petrochemical, and synthetic-rubber production in the Panhandle.

Hutchinson County slumbered as a sparsely populated ranching and agricultural center until the discovery of the vast Panhandle oilfield in the early 1920s. Such ranchers as James M. Sanford, J. A. Whittenburg, and John F. Weatherly cashed in on the resultant boom; many townsites and oil camps such as Isom, Sanford, Fritch, Phillips, Stinnett, Signal Hill, Electric City, and Dial sprang up almost overnight as petroleum-related industries moved in and independent oil producers struck it rich.

The largest and rowdiest of these boom towns was laid out west of Dixon Creek in 1926 and named for its founder, A. P. (Ace) Borger. The town of Borger (1990 population, 15,675) remains the largest in the county and its chief commercial and cultural center, and Stinnett (2,166) is the county seat.

(For an expanded history, visit the County History page.)

About the USGenWeb Project

Hutchinson County Archives

TXGenWeb Archives

USGenWeb Archives

To post your Queries, Biographies, Bible Records, Deeds, Obituaries,
Pensions, and Wills, please visit the Ancestry Message Board
for Hutchinson County, Texas.


Hutchinson County Message Board

Hutchinson County Resources

Addresses
Biographies
Births
Cemeteries
Census Records
Churches
County History
County Postcards
Deaths
Draft Registration
Historical Markers
Hutchinson Co. Facts
Hutchinson Co. Postcards
Lakes, Creeks, & Rivers
Land Abstracts
Landmarks
Lookups
Maps
Military Records

Newspapers
Obituaries
Obituary Notices
Of Special Interest
Photographs
Postmasters & Post Offices
Ranches
School Districts
Surnames
Towns
Texas County Courthouses
Texas County Libraries
Texas Historical Literature
Texas Prehistory
Texas Research Helps
Texas Timeline
The Panhandle of Texas


Old Query Posts

Social Security Death Index

Landmarks and Vanished Communities

TXGenWeb Alphabetical Counties List
USGenWeb Special Projects

Hutchinson County Vital Records

Births: 1926 - 1947

Census Records

Deaths: 1964 - 1998

Divorces: 1966 - 2001

Marriages: 1966 - 1989

Obituaries

Obituary Notices

Military Records

Confederate Pension Applications

World War I and World War II
Texas Panhandle Casualties
and Missing in Action

World War I

World War II

Source: Amarillo Globe-News

World War I Civilian Draft Registration

NARA -- Access to Military Service and Pension Records

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the official repository for records of military personnel who have been discharged from the U.S. Air Force, Army, Marine Corps, Navy and Coast Guard.

Hutchinson County Family Genealogies

If you would like to submit your Hutchinson County Family Genealogy for inclusion on the page, please send it as an e-mail attachment to me at TimeTrvlrO@aol.com.

Plain text-only (.txt) formatting is preferred.

You can also send it in one or two emails,
if you'd like... 8-)

Your genealogy does not have to be exclusive to Hutchinson County, but your family should have been residents of the county for a period of time.

Photos can be added to your family page.
Submit them in .jpg, .gif, or .bmp format only.

Hubert Haliburton NELMS Family
submitted by Judith Lavonia Hugg Grimes

Texas Panhandle Ranches

Ranches.org is home for several
Texas panhandle ranches.
Included on the site, which is
maintained by rancher Jay O'Brien,
are
biographical sketches,
ranch histories, and information
about the
McLean Feedyard.

Ranches included are:
The Swamp--O'Brien Ranch,
the JA, The Circle,
and the
Exell Ranch.

Biographies include:
John G. O'Brien, G.W. O'Brien,
Will O'Brien, Exie Eagan O'Brien,
James Christopher Paul,
and
Howard Paul.

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If you are interested in sponsoring a Texas County in the TXGenWeb Project, please visit the Orphan Counties page.

If you have questions regarding the TXGenWeb Project, 
please contact:

TXGenWeb State Coordinator - Gina Heffernan
Asst State Coordinators -
Jane Keppler, Carla Clifton,
Laura Gregory Roberts

For more information, you may also visit 
the
Texas Counties page.

If you like what you've seen here, please cast your vote.
County of the Month
Thank you!

Hutchinson County Co-Coordinators:
LaRae Halsey-Brooks & Eireann Brooks


This page was last updated November 12, 2023.

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