Cemetery

Cometa

Zavala County · THC Atlas #7507000205

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About this site

Cometa is a cemetery in Zavala County, Texas. It is one of 6 cemeteries documented in Zavala County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 13 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 28.6573, -100.0160. The nearest cataloged historic site is Vivian (cemetery), about 0.7 miles away. Others within a short drive include Juarez, Zavala County, and Zavala County.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #7507000205. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.

History

Cometa Cemetery serves the largely abandoned community of Cometa in far southwestern Zavala County, about ten miles west of Crystal City. The area was a prehistoric Native and Spanish campsite, one spot known to Spanish agents as the Loma de Cometas, and was permanently settled after the Civil War beginning with the White and Vivian families around 1867. By 1900 roughly sixteen percent of the county's population lived in the Cometa area before it declined.

Sources: tshaonline.org

📍 28.6573, -100.0160 · Zavala County

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