Occupying an area of 986 sq mi and having a total population of over 28.1K with the blended ethnic traditions including White, Native American, black or African American, Asian, Hispanic or Latino, Pacific Islander, and others as well as more than 10.5K housing units and 7.4K families, Palo Pinto County was established in 1856 with Palo Pinto as the county seat and Mineral Wells as the largest city. It was named in the honor of the Palo Pinto Creek, where the word Palo Pinto is the Spanish for "painted stick". The County is located in the Western Cross Timbers Ecoregion of Texas.

The ancestral records like probates and liens including civil court dealings, adoption and adoptee particulars, divorce verdicts, naturalization and immigration reports along with census archive, military service history, land and real estate estimation and allocation, marriage volume and registration number and marital status, birth and birth certificate specifics, World War I&II and civil war records and similar other related issues retrieved from the Palo Pinto County records site do not simply divulge the legitimate facts of our predecessors’ existence but additionally portray the veritable image of present day world.