Borger (Texas)
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| Nickname : Smokey City | |
 Location in Texas
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| Basic data | |
| Foundation : | 1926 |
| State : | United States |
| State : | Texas |
| County : | Hutchinson County |
| Coordinates : | 35 ° 40 ′ N , 101 ° 24 ′ W |
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) |
| Residents : | 13,251 (as of 2010) |
| Population density : | 586.3 inhabitants per km 2 |
| Area : | 22.6 km 2 (approx. 9 mi 2 ) of which 22.6 km 2 (approx. 9 mi 2 ) is land |
| Height : | 938 m |
| Postcodes : | 79007-79008 |
| Area code : | +1 806 |
| FIPS : | 48-09556 |
| GNIS ID : | 1352700 |
| Website : | www.ci.borger.tx.us |
| Mayor : | Jeff Brain |
Borger is a city in Hutchinson County in the US state of Texas in the United States of America .
geography
The city is located in northern Texas, in the Texas Panhandle , about 70 km northeast of Amarillo , at the junction of Texas State Routes 136 , 152 and 207 , is about 50 km from Oklahoma and has a total area of 22.6 km 2 , where 0.24 km 2 are water surface. The nearest towns within 25 miles are: Sanford , Stinnett , Fritch , Skellytown , Panhandle , White Deer , Morse and Pampa .
history
| growth of population | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Census | Residents | ± in% | |
| 1930 | 6532 | - | |
| 1940 | 10,018 | 53.4% | |
| 1950 | 18,059 | 80.3% | |
| 1960 | 20,911 | 15.8% | |
| 1970 | 14,195 | -32.1% | |
| 1980 | 15,837 | 11.6% | |
| 1990 | 15,675 | -1 % | |
| 2000 | 14.302 | -8.8% | |
| 2010 | 13,251 | -7.3% | |
| 1930-2000 2010 | |||
The city was founded and named in 1926 after AP "Ace" Borger , a Missouri- born property speculator who was already well-known in Oklahoma , together with his partner John R. Miller , who later became the city's mayor. In March of the same year, after the first promising oil discoveries, they bought 240 acres of land on the Canadian River in the south of the county.
Within three months, the site was divided into individual lots and sold again. In the same time, the black gold had brought around 45,000 people to the new city, which could only be compared to the California gold rush . In the spring of 1927, Governor Dan Moody sent a division of Texas Ranger to the city to enforce the law, but this was not achieved until the troops sent in 1929.
After the years of the Great Depression , the population fell again to around 14,000 in 1943, rose again to over 20,000 by 1960 and fell to 14,302 by 2000.
Demographic data
According to the 2000 census, 14,302 people in 5,591 households and 3,997 families lived here. The population density was 632.5 people per km 2 . The racial the population is composed of 82.75% White, 3.66% African American, 1.33% Native American, 0.43% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, and 9.36% other ethnic groups. About 2.44% are of two or more races and 19.70% of the population are Spanish or Latin American.
Of the 5,591 households, 34.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them. 57.9% of these were married couples living together. 10.0% were single mothers and 28.5% were non-families. 26.5% of all households were single households and there were people living in 13.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.52 and the average family size was 3.20.
27.8% of the population were under 18 years old, 9.8% 18 to 24, 25.4% 25 to 44, 20.9% 45 to 64, and 16.1% who were 65 years of age or older . The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females of all age groups, there were 95.3 males. For every 100 women aged 18 and over there were 91.2 men.
The median income for a household in the 34,653 USD , and the median income for a family 40,417 USD. Males had a median income of $ 39,207 versus $ 19,654 for females. The per capita income was $ 16,869. 12.0% of the population and 9.7% of families are below the poverty line. Of these, 15.4% were children and adolescents under 18 years of age and 6.3% were 65 or older.
crime
The crime rate has an index of 386.4 points. (Compare US national average: 327.2 points) In
2004 there were 0 murders, 11 rapes, 7 robberies, 32 physical attacks on people, 160 break-ins, 695 thefts and 42 car thefts.
sons and daughters of the town
- Bob Foster (1938-2015), boxer
- Darlene Cates (1947-2017), actress
- Roy James Holt (* 1947), experimental nuclear physicist
- Mike Conaway (* 1948), politician
- Fritz Sperberg (* 1951), actor
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Texas Almanac (PDF; 1.2 MB). Retrieved October 4, 2012
- ↑ US Census data for 2010 ( Memento of the original from May 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved October 12, 2012
Web links
- Handbook of Texas (English)
- Borger News Herald (English)
- Statistics Borger (Texas) on city-data (English)