Childress County

Childress County Courthouse
administration
US state :	Texas
Administrative headquarters :	Childress
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Childress County Courthouse Courthouse Box 4 Childress, TX 79201
Foundation :	1876
Made up from:	Bexar County Young County
Area code :	001 940
Demographics
Residents :	7041  (2010)
Population density :	3.8 inhabitants / km 2
geography
Total area :	1848 km²
Water surface :	8 km²
map
Website : www.co.childress.tx.us

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

geography

The county is located north of the geographic center of Texas in the so-called Texas Panhandle , on the border with Oklahoma and has an area of ​​1848 square kilometers, of which 8 square kilometers are water. It is bordered in a clockwise direction by the following counties: Collingsworth Counties , Hardeman Counties , Cottle Counties , and Hall Counties .

history

Childress County was formed from parts of Bexar County and Young Counties on August 21, 1876 , and the administrative organization was completed on April 11 the following year. It was named after George Campbell Childress (1804–1841), one of five authors of the Texan Declaration of Independence.

In the 17th and 18th centuries the Apaches lived in this area , in the 19th century the Comanches , who were defeated by the US Army in the Red River War in 1874 and withdrew to reservations in the following two years.

In 1879 the OX Ranch was founded by A. Forsythe and Doss D. Swearingen, which had the size of the southern half of the county and partly reached into Cottle and Motley Counties. In 1883 the Shoe Nail Ranch followed in the north and the Mill Iron Ranch in the northwest, which reached into Collingsworth County. In the years that followed, these ranches determined the image of the area and the influx of more people was slow.

In 1887, the county was connected to the railroad that was built from Fort Worth to the New Mexico border . This also brought the first farmers who could easily send their goods east along this route. In 1900 there were already 262 farms. At that time, the huge ranches began to collapse and in 1910 the number of farms had increased to 961 and in 1930 to 1,348.

With the construction of the Fort Worth and Denver South Plains Railway from Estelline to Plainview and Lubbock in 1927-28 and the construction of the Fort Worth and Denver Northern Railway 1931-32 to Pampas via Wellington and Shamrock brought the county an economic boom and one rapid increase in population. In 1900 the county had only 2,138 inhabitants, in 1930 it had 16,044 inhabitants. Around 1940 there was another surge with the construction of Childress Army Air Base . After 1950, many people moved to the surrounding larger cities in search of work and the population fell to 7,688 by 2000.

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents		± in%
1880	25th		-
1890	1175		4,600%
1900	2138		82%
1910	9538		346.1%
1920	10,933		14.6%
1930	16,044		46.7%
1940	12,149		-24.3%
1950	12.123		-0.2%
1960	8421		-30.5%
1970	6605		-21.6%
1980	6950		5.2%
1990	5953		-14.3%
2000	7688		29.1%
2010	7041		-8.4%
1880-2010

Childress County Heritage Museum

Childress County's age pyramid (as of 2000)

According to the 2000 census , Childress County had 7,688 people in 2,474 households and 1,650 families. The population density was 4 people per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 67.70 percent white, 14.09 percent African American, 0.33 percent Native American, 0.30 percent Asian, 0.05 percent from the Pacific island area and 15.70 percent from other ethnic groups Groups; 1.83 percent were descended from two or more races. 20.47 percent of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Of the 2,474 households, 31.3 percent had children or young people living with them. 52.4 percent were married couples living together, 11.4 percent were single mothers and 33.3 percent were non-families. 30.8 percent were single households and 16.5 percent had people aged 65 or over. The average household size was 2.40 and the average family size was 3.00 people.

22.1 percent of the population was under 18 years old, 12.1 percent between 18 and 24, 30.6 percent between 25 and 44, 19.4 percent between 45 and 64 and 15.8 percent were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females there were 142.4 males and for every 100 females age 18 or over there were 149.5 males.

The median income for a household in the county is $ 27,457 , and the median income for a family is $ 35,543. Males had a median income of $ 25,606 versus $ 20,037 for females. The per capita income was $ 12,452. 13.7 percent of families and 17.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Places in the county

Arlie Carey

Childress Kirkland

Loco Tell

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Childress County in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System . Retrieved February 22, 2011
2. ↑ Information from the National Association of Counties ( Memento of the original from April 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 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 October 10, 2012 
3. ↑ 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. 55 .
4. ↑ Texas Almanac: Population History of Countys from 1850–2010 (PDF; 698 kB), accessed September 18, 2012
5. ↑ Childress County, Texas , 2000 census data sheet at factfinder.census.gov .

Web links

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

• Childress County in the Handbook of Texas , (Eng.)
• "Childress County Profile" of the "Texas Association of Counties" , (Eng.)

Coordinates: 34 ° 32 ′  N , 100 ° 12 ′  W