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| | | The
1949 Yoakum County Courthouses
Photo courtesy Ken
Rudine, August 2005 | |
| | An
old photo of the 1949 Yoakum County Courthouses
Photo courtesy THC
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Date:
1949
Architect: Wyatt C. Hedrick
Style: Moderne
Material: Brick
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| | | The
1926 former Yoakum County Courthouse.
This building is not in use today.
Photo courtesy Ken
Rudine, August 2005 | |
| | The
1926 Yoakum County Courthouse as it appeared in 1939
1939 photo courtesy
TXDoT | |
Oil
painting of the 1908 Yoakum County courthouse hanging in the county auditor's
office of the current courthouse.
Photo courtesy Terry
Jeanson, February 2007 |
| | Yoakum
County marker
Photo courtesy Ken
Rudine, August 2005 | |
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Yoakum County History
"Yoakum County (C-8) is in western Texas on the southern High Plains, along
the New Mexico border. The center of the county is at 32°10' north latitude and
102°50' west longitude. ... The area was named for Henderson King Yoakum. Yoakum
County covers 800 square miles of nearly level terrain composed of sandy soils
that support prairie grasses and some mesquite, yucca, shinnery oak, and sandsage.
Elevations range from 3,400 to 3,900 feet above sea level. The area is drained
by Sulphur Springs Draw, which runs through the center of the county...."
See Handbook of Texas Online
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/YY/hcy1.html
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