Cuero, Texas, the county seat for DeWitt County, is a comfortable, progressive community where people stop on the street, visit and appreciate their corner of Americana! Visitors will enjoy it too. Cuero is a unique community dedicated to preserving its history as it moves forward into the 21st century!

Cuero was widely known in its early days as a center for leather fabrication. The Spanish word for “raw hide” became the town’s name. Officially founded in 1873, Cuero was an unruly place until the influx of Indianola residents following the 1875 and 1886 hurricanes. Many Indianola homes and businesses were disassembled and moved inland to Cuero. There was a great deal of growth in the late 19th century, and Cuero was a bustling little city by the turn of the century. Much of the beautiful architecture from that era remains. Over 50 buildings, most notably the DeWitt County Courthouse, are listed on the state and national registers of historical places. Cattle trade has been significant from the early days to the present.

The Chisholm Trail began near Cuero, and DeWitt County remains the most densely populated cattle county in Texas. Turkeys were once a major agricultural product, but there are no commercial turkey farms in DeWitt County today. The turkey industry is remembered yearly with the Annual TurkeyFest celebration.

Cuero is steeped in the history of the Chisholm Trail! In 1866, Crockett Cardwell gathered a herd of nearly 2,000 longhorns and hired trail boss Thornton Chisholm to drive them from Cardwell Flats (north of present-day Cuero) through Oklahoma and Kansas to St. Joseph, Missouri. The Chisholm Trail is memorialized at the Chisholm Trail Museum. Cuero offers attractions for visitors, including the DeWitt County Historical Museum, the Cuero Heritage Museum and the Cuero Livestock Show every March. And each Spring, the county explodes with color with the arrival of the Texas wildflowers.

Shop, eat, enjoy and relax as you experience small town living at its best in Cuero!