Cemetery

Tinney Piedras Pintas

Duval County · THC Atlas #7131001305

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About this site

Tinney Piedras Pintas is a cemetery in Duval County, Texas. It is one of 31 cemeteries documented in Duval County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 36 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 27.6453, -98.4083. The nearest cataloged historic site is Piedras Pintas (cemetery), about 1.8 miles away. Others within a short drive include Benavides, La Mota de Olmos Cemetery, and Antonio Lopez Family Cemetery.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #7131001305. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.

History

Tinney Piedras Pintas Cemetery, near Benavides in Duval County, is nearly all that survives of Piedras Pintas, once a prospering town tied to the surrounding oilfield. The Piedras Pintas field drew attention early in the 20th century, and in 1907 tax collector John Cleary was assassinated in a dispute connected to its oil interests. The town faded and by the late 1940s was no longer shown on maps, leaving the fenced burial ground as the community's chief remaining trace.

Sources: texasalmanac.com roadsidethoughts.com

📍 27.6453, -98.4083 · Duval County

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Nearby in Duval County

La Mota de Olmos Cemetery

Benavides · 2010

Cemetery

Antonio Lopez Family Cemetery