Seat: Crockett · Grapeland, Lovelady, Kennard
Houston County is the oldest county in Texas, created by an act of the First Congress of the Republic of Texas in June 1837 and named for Sam Houston himself. Crockett, the county seat, was laid out the same year on land donated by Andrew E. Gossett, and was named for Davy Crockett, who is said to have camped at a spring just south of town on his march to the Alamo.
Houston County’s deed and probate records reach back to 1837 — older than the State of Texas. The current 1939 courthouse is the fifth on its square in Crockett; earlier buildings were lost to fire and growth, but the records have come forward with each rebuild.
Grapeland was founded in 1872 as a stop on the International & Great Northern Railroad and grew through the cotton and longleaf pine boom of the late nineteenth century. The town still anchors the northern reach of the county where pine forest meets the Trinity River bottom.
Just east of Weches, Mission Tejas State Park commemorates the 1690 founding of Mission San Francisco de los Tejas — the first Spanish mission established among the Hasinai Caddo and the eastern terminus of the original Camino Real de los Tejas through Texas.
County seat: Crockett · Courthouse: 401 E. Houston Avenue, Crockett, TX 75835
Address: 401 E. Houston Avenue, Suite D, Crockett, TX 75835
Phone: (936) 544-3255
Address: 401 E. Houston Avenue, Suite E, Crockett, TX 75835
Phone: (936) 544-3255
For sovereignty-to-current chain of title work in Houston 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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