Choctaw County, Oklahoma

administration
Choctaw County Courthouse
US state :	Oklahoma
Administrative headquarters :	Hugo
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse 300 East Duke Street Hugo, OK 74743-4009
Foundation :	July 16, 1907
Made up from:	Choctaw Land
Area code :	001 580
Demographics
Residents :	15,205 (2010)
Population density :	7.6 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	2074 km²
Water surface :	69 km²
map

The Choctaw County is a county in the US state of Oklahoma . At the 2010 census , the county had 15,205 people and a population density of 7.6 people per square kilometer. The county seat is Hugo , which was named after the French poet Victor Hugo .

geography

The county is located in southeast Oklahoma, borders Texas to the south and has an area of 2,074 square kilometers, of which 69 square kilometers are water. It borders on the following counties:

Atoka County	Pushmataha County
Bryan County		McCurtain County
	Lamar County, Texas	Red River County, Texas

history

Choctaw County was formed on July 16, 1907 as the original county from Choctaw Land. It was named after the North American Indian people, the Choctaw .

There was a trading post in this area as early as 1821 and a military post was established in 1854. The last Confederate general was captured in the former Choctaw administration building after the American Civil War . In the vicinity of the old military post, a two-story log cabin was built in 1832, the oldest building in Oklahoma still in existence - the Old Chiefs House - for the then district manager Thomas Le Flore , after whom Le Flore County was named. After the civil war it served as the first school for blacks. Also in the county is the Goodland Presbyterian Children's Home , the oldest continuously open institution in Oklahoma and the oldest Protestant children's home in the United States.

Historical objects

Hugo Frisco Railroad Depot (2016)

In Hugo is located Hugo Frisco Railroad Depot (aka Frisco Depot ). The depot was listed on June 6, 1980 by the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) as a historic building with the number 80003259.

A total of 13 buildings and sites in the county are registered in the NRHP (as of May 27, 2018).

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1910	21,862	-
1920	32,144	47%
1930	24,142	-24.9%
1940	28,358	17.5%
1950	20,405	-28%
1960	15,637	-23.4%
1970	15,141	-3.2%
1980	17.203	13.6%
1990	15.302	-11.1%
2000	15,342	0.3%
2010	15.205	-0.9%
1900–1990 2000 2010

According to the 2010 census , Choctaw County had 15,205 people in 6,317 households. The population density was 7.6 inhabitants per square kilometer.

The racial the population was composed of 64.9 percent white, 10.9 percent African American, 16.5 percent Native American, 0.3 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 6.6 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 2.8 percent of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Statistically, 2.31 people lived in each of the 6,317 households.

24.6 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 57.8 percent were between 18 and 64 and 17.6 percent were 65 years or older. 52.4 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 26,803 USD . The per capita income was $ 16,486. 26.1 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.