Texas postage stamps can follow a political sequence from the Republic to statehood, but the verified list also reaches the Alamo, the Rio Grande, Fort Bliss and a San Antonio exposition. Nine issue records define those paths.
Three statehood-era Texas records are not duplicates
A 1936 centennial design, a 1945 3-cent statehood issue and a 1995 32-cent anniversary issue appear separately. Republic of Texas adds an earlier political subject, not a fourth version of the same stamp.
Source-checked Texas issue records
The dates, denominations and issue names below let users distinguish political anniversaries from landmarks, border geography and regional events.
| Issue | Issue date | Value or service | Relationship | Documented subject | First-day place |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Statehood | December 29, 1945 | 3 cents | Statehood | The 100th anniversary of Texas statehood was commemorated by a 3-cent blue stamp issued on December 29, 1945. | Austin, TX |
| Sam Houston | January 10, 1964 | 5 cents | Other direct state theme | The only person in U.S. | Not stated in the extracted record |
| Rio Grande | July 30, 1999 | 40 cents | Other direct state theme | The second issuance in the Scenic American Landscapes series features the Rio Grande River, marking the boundary between Texas and Mexico. | Milwaukee, WI |
| The Alamo | June 14, 1956 | 9 cents | Other direct state theme | This Liberty issue stamp depicts The Alamo, located in San Antonio, Texas. | San Antonio, TX |
| Texas Statehood | June 16, 1995 | 32 cents | Statehood | This issuance celebrates the 150th anniversary of Texas Statehood. | Austin, TX |
| Republic of Texas, 150th Anniversary | March 2, 1986 | 22 cents | Other direct state theme | A 22-cent commemorative stamp honoring the sesquicentennial of the Republic of Texas was issued both in San Antonio and at Washington-on-the-Brazos Texas State Historical Park, Texas, on March 2, 1986. | Not stated in the extracted record |
| HemisFair '68 | March 30, 1968 | 6 cents | Other direct state theme | This stamp celebrated the opening of the HemisFair '68 regional exhibition at San Antonio, Texas, held in honor of San Antonio's 250th anniversary. | Not stated in the extracted record |
| Texas Statehood | November 1, 1936 | 3 cents | Statehood | The 3-cent violet Texas centennial stamp features portraits of Sam Houston, general of the Texas army and later governor of Texas and U.S. | Not stated in the extracted record |
| Fort Bliss | November 5, 1948 | 3 cents | Other direct state theme | This stamp was issued to honor the 100th anniversary of Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas. | Not stated in the extracted record |
The Rio Grande and Alamo need their own labels
The 1999 Rio Grande issue is part of a scenic landscape series, while the 1956 Alamo stamp belongs to the Liberty issue. Grouping both as generic Texas designs would hide their different postal contexts.
Texas theme does not mean Texas-issued object
This index is limited to verified U.S. postage with a direct Texas subject. State tax stamps, republic-era non-postal material, tourist seals and decorative western labels require different identification methods.
Issue history versus current availability
The Texas timeline identifies nine postal issues but does not appraise or authenticate a stamp in hand. Verify the exact design, format, condition, seller inventory and current postal value before treating a historical record as a buying or mailing answer.
Texas collection boundaries
How many Texas statehood entries are shown?
Three records in the table are labeled as Texas Statehood, dated 1936, 1945 and 1995.
Is the Rio Grande issue exclusively about Texas?
Its archived description identifies the river as the Texas–Mexico boundary; the page records that relationship without claiming the entire river is a single-state subject.