Clay County, Texas Census Records — A Research Index

This index covers transcribed federal census records for Clay County, Texas, which was marked off from Cooke County in December 1857. The county's population was tiny at first — just 109 residents by the 1860 census — and remained sparse through the Civil War years, when the county seat of Henrietta was largely abandoned before permanent resettlement resumed in the early 1870s.

Because of that abandonment, Clay County census records show a genuine population gap in the early 1860s rather than a transcription error. Records pick back up more fully from the 1870 census onward, once resettlement was underway in earnest. Cross-referencing a name found here against the county's marriage and obituary records can help confirm a family's presence across multiple decades.

Records in This Section

1 record

• 1890 census clay county