Cass County, Texas

administration
Cass County Courthouse
US state :	Texas
Administrative headquarters :	Linden trees
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Cass County Courthouse P.O. Box 449 Linden, TX 75563
Foundation :	1846
Made up from:	Bowie County
Area code :	001 903
Demographics
Residents :	30,464 (2010)
Population density :	12.6 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	2487 km²
Water surface :	60 km²
map

Website : www.co.cass.tx.us

The Cass County is a county in the US state of Texas . The county seat is in Linden .

geography

The county is northeast of the geographic center of Texas on the south bank of the Sulfur River and borders Arkansas and Louisiana to the east . It has an area of 2487 square kilometers, of which 60 square kilometers are water. Cass County is bordered by the following neighboring counties and parishes:

	Bowie County	Miller County, Arkansas
Morris County
	Marion County	Caddo Parish (Louisiana)

history

L. Cass

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1850	4991	-
1860	8411	68.5%
1870	8875	5.5%
1880	16,724	88.4%
1890	22,554	34.9%
1900	22,841	1.3%
1910	27,587	20.8%
1920	30,041	8.9%
1930	30,030	-0%
1940	33,496	11.5%
1950	26,732	-20.2%
1960	23,496	-12.1%
1970	24,133	2.7%
1980	29,430	21.9%
1990	29,982	1.9%
2000	30,438	1.5%
2010	30,464	0.1%
1850-2010 Cass County's age pyramid (as of 2000)

Cass County was formed from parts of Bowie County on April 25, 1846, and the administrative organization was completed on July 13 of the same year. It was named after Lewis Cass (1782–1866), a US Senator from Michigan who advocated the admission of Texas to the United States. In 1861 the county was renamed Davis County after Jefferson Davis , President of the Confederate States of America . After the Reconstruction phase after the Civil War , it was renamed Cass County again on May 16, 1871.

The Mathews-Powell House is one of three entries for the county in the NRHP.

Three buildings in the county are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) (as of October 18, 2018).

Demographic data

As of the 2010 census , Cass County had 30,464 people in 12,313 households. The population density was 12.6 inhabitants per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 79.0 percent white, 17.4 percent African American, 0.5 percent Native American, 0.3 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 1.4 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 3.5 percent of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race. Statistically, 2.36 people lived in each of the 12,313 households.

22.9 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 57.7 percent were between 18 and 64 and 19.4 percent were 65 years or older. 51.7 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 37,065 USD . The per capita income was $ 20,456. 19.3 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Cass County localities

Citys

Towns

Unincorporated Communities

¹partly in Morris County

structure

Cass County is divided into five Census County Divisions (CCD):

CCD	Population (2010)	FIPS
Atlanta CCD	13,705	48-90160
Bivins-McLeod CCD	2822	48-90320
Hughes Springs-Avinger CCD	5411	48-91850
Linden CCD	5740	48-92215
Marietta-Douglassville CCD	2786	48-92405

Individual evidence

↑ Cass County in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey Accessed 22 February 2011
^ National Association of Counties.Retrieved September 19, 2012
↑ Texas Almanac: Population History of Countys from 1850–2010 (PDF; 698 kB) Retrieved September 18, 2012
↑ 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. 48 .
↑ Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed October 18, 2018.
^ US Census Bureau, State & County QuickFacts - Cass County. Retrieved October 9, 2011
↑ Missouri Census Data Center - Texas ( Memento of the original from December 5, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 19, 2012 @1@ 2

Web links

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

33.069998 -94.349996Coordinates: 33 ° 4 ′ N , 94 ° 21 ′ W

[1] Cass County in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey Accessed 22 February 2011

[2] National Association of Counties.Retrieved September 19, 2012

[3] Texas Almanac: Population History of Countys from 1850–2010 (PDF; 698 kB) Retrieved September 18, 2012

[4] 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. 48 .

[5] Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed October 18, 2018.

[6] US Census Bureau, State & County QuickFacts - Cass County. Retrieved October 9, 2011

[7] Missouri Census Data Center - Texas ( Memento of the original from December 5, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 19, 2012 @1@ 2