Bardwell, Texas

Bardwell
Bardwell Town Hall
Location in Texas
Bardwell
Basic data
Foundation :	between 1910 and 1920
State :	United States
State :	Texas
County :	Ellis County
Coordinates :	32 ° 16 ′  N , 96 ° 42 ′  W Coordinates: 32 ° 16 ′  N , 96 ° 42 ′  W
Time zone :	Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Residents :	623 (as of 2018)
Population density :	778.8 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	0.8 km 2  (approx. 0 mi 2 )
Height :	147 m
Postal code :	75101
Area code :	+1 972
FIPS :	48-05612
GNIS ID :	1330034
Mayor :	Larry Gilbert

Bardwell is a small town with a status of City in Ellis County in the state of Texas in the United States . At the last census in 2010 , Bardwell had 649 inhabitants, for 2018 the population was estimated at 623.

location

Bardwell is about ten kilometers southwest of Ennis and 20 kilometers southeast of Waxahachie on Texas State Highway 34 . Neighboring villages and towns are Ennis in the northeast, Rice and Emhouse in the southeast, Rankin in the south, Avalon in the southwest, Nash in the west and Reagor Springs in the northwest.

Lake Bardwell is east of Bardwell . The Farm-to-Market Road 984 runs through the village.

history

The First National Bank Building, built in 1915

In the early 1880s, entrepreneur John W. Bardwell built an Egrenier machine southwest of what is now the city. A school was built in 1892 and a Baptist church followed a year later. Also in 1893, several residents of the settlement organized themselves into a Methodist church and Bardwell received a post office. In 1907 the Trinity and Brazos Valley Railway was built near Bardwell. Since the railway line did not cross the place at its previous location, the place was rebuilt due to the better traffic location on the railway line. The city was officially founded shortly afterwards. Bardwell was mainly shaped economically by the cotton industry.

In 1914, Bardwell was connected to the electricity and telephone network. In the 1920s the town had two banks, six grocery stores, three haberdashery stores, a grist mill, and a lumber yard. As a result of the Great Depression , many Bardwell businesses went bankrupt and residents left the city. In 1929 around 650 people lived in the city and there were 25 businesses. In 1958, the Bardwell School District was dissolved and merged with the Ennis Independent School District. By 1960 the population fell to 220. At the beginning of the 1970s, Bardwell had 277 residents, there were three churches and only a handful of businesses in the village. Since then the population has been increasing again.

Demographics

Population development
Census	Residents		± in%
1920	358		-
1930	303		-15.4%
1940	266		-12.2%
1950	229		-13.9%
1960	220		-3.9%
1970	277		25.9%
1980	335		20.9%
1990	387		15.5%
2000	583		50.6%
2010	649		11.3%
US Decennial Census

In 2018, Bardwell had 623 residents, according to the American Community Survey . There were 188 households and 153 families in the city. Of the local population, 75.0 percent were white, 9.3 percent were African American, and 2.7 percent were Native American. 8.2 percent were of other origins and 4.8 percent were of multiple origins. 53.3 percent of Bardwell's residents were Hispanic . 49.4 percent of the population were male and 50.6 percent female.

50.0 percent of households had children under the age of 18 living with them, and 38.8 percent of households had people over 60 years of age. In terms of age, the population of Bardwell was divided into 32.3 percent minors, 6.5 percent between 18 and 24, 24.6 percent between 25 and 44, 21.5 percent between 45 and 64 and 15.1 percent of the population were 65 years of age old or older. The median age was 34.4 years. In 2018, the median Bardwell income per household was $ 47,188 and per family was $ 53,875. 14.8 percent of the population lived below the poverty line .

Personalities

• Mae Boren Axton (1914–1997), radio presenter and songwriter

Web links

Commons : Bardwell, Texas  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Brief History of Bardwell. Ellis County, accessed April 20, 2020.
2. ^ David Minor: History of Bardwell. Texas State Historical Association, accessed April 20, 2020.
3. ^ Bardwell, Texas, Demographic and Housing Estimates. In: data.census.gov , accessed April 20, 2020.