Named in the favor of Lavaca River, Lavaca County was established in the year 1841 with an area of 970 sq mi. A population of about 19.2K with a traditional composition of White, Native American, black or African American, Asian, Hispanic or Latino, Pacific Islander, and others has more than 7.6K households and 5.3K families staying here. Hallettsville is the County seat while Yoakum forms the largest city of the County.

The vast repository of the Lavaca County, TX, consists of both the public as well as vital information on military achievements and duty details, naturalization and immigration reports together with adoption and adoptee reports, land and real estate allocation and registration deeds, marriage registration number, birth and marital status, accomplishments of the war martyrs of World War I&II and American civil wars, divorce decree and census index with familial Social Security Numbers, civil court activities, last will and liens and much more.