Details for Yorktown
Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5123005928
Data
| Marker Number | 5928 |
| Atlas Number | 5123005928 |
| Marker Title | Yorktown |
| Index Entry | Yorktown |
| Address | |
| City | Yorktown |
| County | DeWitt |
| UTM Zone | 14 |
| UTM Easting | 646614 |
| UTM Northing | 3206963 |
| Subject Codes | cities and towns |
| Marker Year | 1968 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark | No |
| Marker Location | on SH 72 (east edge of town), Yorktown |
| Private Property | No |
| Marker Condition | In Situ |
| Marker Size | 18" x 28" |
| Marker Text | Founded 1848 as way station on old Indianola Trail. Chartered August 2, 1854. Incorporated 1871. San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railroad reached here 1886. Town's first school organized 1853. Prospered as center of farming and ranching; later, of oil and gas. Pioneer strains are German, American, Pole, Czech, Spaniard, Mexican, Negro. |