Archer County

administration
Archer County Courthouse and Jail , listed on the NRHP with number 77001424
US state :	Texas
Administrative headquarters :	Archer City
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse P.O. Box 458 Archer City, TX 76351-0458
Foundation :	1858
Made up from:	Clay County
Area code :	001 817
Demographics
Residents :	9054 (2010)
Population density :	3.8 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	2398 km²
Water surface :	42 km²
map

Website : www.co.archer.tx.us

The Archer County is a county in the state of Texas of the United States . The county seat is in Archer City .

geography

The county is located in north Texas (but not Panhandle Texas ) about 50 km from the Oklahoma border. It has an area of 2,398 square kilometers, of which 42 square kilometers are water. It is bordered by the following counties: Wichita (north), Clay (east), Jack (southeast), Young (south), Throckmorton (southwest), Baylor (west), and Wilbarger (northwest). The center of the county is 35 ° 30 ′ N, 98 ° 30 ′ W.

history

Archer County was formed from parts of Clay County on January 22, 1858 and the administrative organization ended on July 27, 1880. It was named after Branch Turner Archer (1790-1856), who was speaker and Secretary of War in the Republic of Texas . Before the arrival of white settlers, Apaches, Wichitas, Tawakonis, Kichais, Caddoes, Comanches and later Kiowas lived here.

One structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) as of September 19, 2018, the Archer County Courthouse and Jail .

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1880	596	-
1890	2101	252.5%
1900	2508	19.4%
1910	6525	160.2%
1920	5254	-19.5%
1930	9684	84.3%
1940	7599	-21.5%
1950	6816	-10.3%
1960	6110	-10.4%
1970	5759	-5.7%
1980	7266	26.2%
1990	7973	9.7%
2000	8854	11%
2010	9054	2.3%
1850-2010 Archer County's age pyramid (as of 2000)

As of the 2000 census , Archer County had 8,854 people in 3,345 households and 2,515 families. The population density was 4 people per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 95.54 percent white, 0.08 percent African American, 0.62 percent Native American, 0.12 percent Asian, 0.03 percent of residents from the Pacific island area and 2.28 percent from other ethnic groups Groups; 1.32 percent were descended from two or more races. 4.87 percent of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Of the 3,345 households, 37.2 percent had children or young people living with them. 65.0 percent were married couples living together, 7.2 percent were single mothers and 24.8 percent were non-families. 21.9 percent were single households and 10.2 percent had people aged 65 or over. The average household size was 2.63 and the average family size was 3.08 people.

28.2 percent of the population was under 18 years old, 7.0 percent between 18 and 24, 27.4 percent between 25 and 44, 23.5 percent between 45 and 64 and 13.9 percent were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females there were 100.2 males and for every 100 females age 18 or over there were 96.2 males.

The median income for a household in the county is $ 38,514 , and the median income for a family is $ 45,984. Males had a median income of $ 31,386 versus $ 22,119 for females. The per capita income was 19,300. 9.0 percent of the population, 6.8 percent of the families lived below the poverty line.

Places in the county

Individual evidence

^ Extract from the National Register of Historic Places . Retrieved March 13, 2011
^ Archer County in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey . Retrieved February 22, 2011
↑ Information from the National Association of Counties ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved October 10, 2012 @1@ 2

↑ Charles Curry Aiken, Joseph Nathan Kane: The American Counties: Origins of County Names, Dates of Creation, Area, and Population Data, 1950-2010 . 6th edition. Scarecrow Press, Lanham 2013, ISBN 978-0-8108-8762-6 , p. 10 .

↑ Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed September 19, 2018.

↑ Texas Almanac: Population History of Countys from 1850–2010 (PDF; 698 kB), accessed September 18, 2012

^ Archer County, Texas , 2000 census data sheet at factfinder.census.gov .