Seat: Fairfield · Teague, Wortham
Freestone County was created in 1850 from Limestone County and named for the freestone water of its springs. The county seat, Fairfield, was platted the same year. Freestone is the smallest of our eight counties by area but historically dense in oil and gas activity.
The 1919 Freestone County Courthouse, designed by C.H. Page of Austin in the Beaux‑Arts style, replaced an earlier wood‑frame building. It has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1980 and still serves as the working county courthouse.
Teague was platted in 1906 as the divisional headquarters of the Trinity & Brazos Valley Railway. Within a decade it had hotels, a depot, and a roundhouse. The B‑RVR depot survives today as a railroad museum.
The Wortham Oil Boom of 1924 briefly made Freestone County the third‑largest crude oil producer in the state of Texas. The town’s population swelled to roughly 30,000 at the peak before settling back below 1,500 within a decade. Mineral leases from the boom era still appear in the county’s deed records and shape some of today’s title work.
County seat: Fairfield · Courthouse: 118 East Commerce Street, Fairfield, TX 75840
Address: 103 E Main, P.O. Box 1010, Fairfield, TX 75840
Phone: (903) 389-2635
Address: 118 East Commerce Street, Fairfield, TX 75840
Phone: (903) 389-2534
For sovereignty-to-current chain of title work in Freestone County, our title team pulls the deed records in person and reconciles them against the online index. Online date ranges vary by vendor and are not always complete — verify at the courthouse for closing-grade title work.
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