Welcome

Thanks for visiting Callahan County on TXGenWeb! I'm Amy Coughlin, the coordinator for the county site. I've been enjoying building on all the hard work of others who came before me, as well as adding my own touch to collecting and presenting genealogical treasures. I'm currently making plans to expand on the civic and social history of the county. If you would like to participate in keeping this site full of helpful information, please click on "Help Out" in the top menu bar to learn more. We can always use help with everything from transcribing obituaries, to performing lookups in local records.

New! Callahan County Locality Guide

Click here to download a fully cited, 15-page Callahan County Locality Guide (PDF opens in new tab)
Guide last updated March 2026

Callahan County Oil Map
"Oil Map of Callahan County" (Baird, Texas: Baird Commercial Club, 1919); image, University of Texas Libraries,
"Cartographic Connections," UTA Libraries (https://libguides.uta.edu/ld.php?content_id=931922 : accessed 03 Mar 2026).

Resources -- construction zone

Pardon our dust. All of the links from this point down should work, but please be patient while your friendly volunteer coordinator works on a minor facelift to streamline and reorg some of the data.

On-Site

Addresses
Cemeteries
Churches
Families
History
Lookups
Newspaper Items
Obituaries
Photographs
Schools
Surnames
Surrounding Counties
Vital Records

Off-Site

Callahan Archives
Query Board

Newspapers

Baird's Callahan Connection [1987-present]
Baird Star [1887-1969]
Baird Weekly Star [1877-1887]
Callahan County Clarendon [1879-1887]
Callahan County Star (weekly) [1969-present]
Clyde Enterprise [1912-1950]
Clyde Journal (weekly) [1974-present]
Clyde News [1962-1969]
Cross Plains Review [1910-present]
Putnam News [1936-????]

Other Publications

Mrs. L. L. Blackburn, Early Settlers and Settlements of Callahan County, West Texas Historical Association Year Book 23 (1947).
Callahan County Historical Commission, I Remember Callahan: History of Callahan County, Texas (Dallas: Taylor, 1986). Index Transcribed Index
Brutus Clay Chrisman, Early Days in Callahan County (Abilene, Texas: Abilene Printing and Stationery, 1966).
Fane Downs et al., Inventory of County Records, Callahan County Courthouse, Baird, Texas (Denton: Texas County Records Project, North Texas State University, 1977).
Thomas Robert Havins, Belle Plain, Texas: Ghost Town in Callahan (Brownwood, Texas: Brown Press, 1972).
S. E. Settle, Early Days in Callahan County, West Texas Historical Association Year Book 12 (1936).
Jimmy West, Indian Episodes of Callahan County, West Texas Historical Association Year Book 23 (1947).