Alvarado is the oldest city in Johnson County, Texas, United States. The population was 4,739 in 2020.
Barnett Shale gas drilling rig near Alvarado, Texas (2008)
Texas Conference of Seventh-day Adventists building
Johnson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 179,927. Its county seat is Cleburne. Johnson County is named for Colonel Middleton Tate Johnson Sr., a Texas Ranger, politician and soldier in the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War. Johnson County is included in the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan statistical area.
The Johnson County Courthouse