Bradley County, Arkansas

administration
Bradley County Courthouse
US state :	Arkansas
Administrative headquarters :	Warren
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Bradley County Courthouse 100 East Cedar Street Warren, AR 71671
Foundation :	December 18, 1840
Made up from:	Union County Cleveland County Drew County Ashley County
Area code :	001 870
Demographics
Residents :	11,508 (2010)
Population density :	6.8 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1695 km²
Water surface :	10 km²
map

The Bradley County is a county in the US state of Arkansas . The county seat is in Warren . The county is part of the dry counties , which means that the sale of alcohol is restricted or prohibited.

geography

The county is located in southern Arkansas on the northeast bank of the Ouachita River , about 50 km from Louisiana and has an area of 1,695 square kilometers, of which ten square kilometers are water. It borders on the following counties:

	Cleveland County
Calhoun County		Drew County
Union County		Ashley County

history

Bradley County was formed on December 18, 1840 from parts of Union County, Drew County, Ashley County, and Cleveland County. It was named after Hugh Bradley (1783-1854), one of the first white settlers in southern Arkansas. The courthouse was one of the few that did not burn down from this period and the first trial files from April 1841 are still available.

The first European arrivals in this area were probably French hunters who left some deposits here. The first well-documented travelers in this area were the members of the Dunbar and Hunter expedition , who explored the upper and lower reaches of the Ouachita River from here in 1804 . In 1821 or 1822, Captain Hugh Bradle, a native of Tennessee, led an expedition to the area that explored the surrounding area along the Red River.

Around 1880, banker and railroad tycoon Jay Gould began laying rails in the area for one of his companies, St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad , which opened new trade routes for a county still suffering from the aftermath of the Civil War brought an upswing.

economy

The county is known in the United States for its tomatoes, wine, and logging. The largest taxpayer is the timber trading and collecting company Potlatch Corp , which owns 300,000 acres of land.

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1850	3829	-
1860	8388	119.1%
1870	8646	3.1%
1880	6285	-27.3%
1890	7972	26.8%
1900	9651	21.1%
1910	14,518	50.4%
1920	15,970	10%
1930	17,494	9.5%
1940	18.097	3.4%
1950	15,987	-11.7%
1960	14,029	-12.2%
1970	12,778	-8.9%
1980	13,803	8th %
1990	11,793	-14.6%
2000	12,600	6.8%
2010	11,508	-8.7%
1850-1890 1900-1990 2000 2010 Bradley County's Pyramid of Age

After the census in 2000 lived in Bradley County 12,600 people; 4,834 households and 3,388 families were counted. The population density was 7 people per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 63.36 percent white, 28.63 percent African American, 0.24 percent Native American, 0.06 percent Asian and 6.96 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.75 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 8.25 percent of the population.

Of the 4,834 households, 29.5 percent had children or adolescents under the age of 18 living with them. 52.2 percent were married couples living together, 14.5 percent were single mothers, 29.9 percent were non-families. 27.6 percent of all households were single households and 13.9 percent had people aged 65 or over. The average household size was 2.45 and the average family size was 2.96 people.

23.6 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 9.7 percent between 18 and 24, 26.5 percent between 25 and 44, 22.8 percent between 45 and 64 and 17.5 percent were 65 years or older. The median age was 38 years. Statistically, there were 97.7 males for every 100 females and an average of 95.8 males for every 100 females aged 18 and over.

The median income for a household in the 24,821 USD , and the median income for a family 30,753 USD. Males had a median income of $ 28,228 versus $ 18,098 for females. The per capita income was $ 13,895. 20.6 percent of families and 26.3 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.