Clay County, Texas

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Clay County Courthouse
Clay County Courthouse
administration
US state : Texas
Administrative headquarters : Henrietta
Address of the
administrative headquarters: 		Clay County Courthouse
P.O. Box 548
Henrietta, TX 76365-0548
Foundation : 1857
Made up from: Cooke County
Area code : 001 940
Demographics
Residents : 10,752  (2010)
Population density : 3.8 inhabitants / km 2
geography
Total area : 2891 km²
Water surface : 48 km²
map
Map of Clay County within Texas
Website : www.co.clay.tx.us

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

geography

growth of population
Census Residents ± in%
1860 109 -
1880 5045 -
1890 7503 48.7%
1900 9231 23%
1910 17,043 84.6%
1920 16,864 -1.1%
1930 14,545 -13.8%
1940 12,524 -13.9%
1950 9896 -21%
1960 8351 -15.6%
1970 8079 -3.3%
1980 9582 18.6%
1990 10,024 4.6%
2000 11.006 9.8%
2010 10,752 -2.3%
1860-2010
Clay County's age pyramid (as of 2000)

The county is located north of the geographic center of Texas, on the border with Oklahoma and has an area of ​​2,891 square kilometers, of which 48 square kilometers are water. It is bordered clockwise by the following counties: Cotton County and Jefferson Counties , both in Oklahoma, Montague Counties , Jack Counties , Archer Counties , and Wichita Counties .

history

Clay County was formed from parts of Cooke County on December 24, 1857 , and the administrative organization was completed in 1861. After a temporary dissolution of the county the following year, it was formed again on May 27, 1873. It was named after Henry Clay , a statesman from Kentucky and the 9th Secretary of State of the United States .

The first Europeans to set foot in this country were probably Diego Ortiz Parrilla in 1759 on his way to the Spanish fort in Montague County, in 1786 and 1787 Pedro Vial and José Maresq looking for a way from San Antonio to Santa Fe in New Mexico . The first settlers came around 1850 and settled on a southern branch of the Wichita River , about 3 km from today's Henrietta.

In 1861, at the beginning of the American Civil War , only a few people lived here in this Indian-ruled area, in Henrietta only ten families. Most of the settlers left the area and did not return until after the Civil War ended when Fort Sill was built. In 1882 the Fort Worth and Denver Railway was completed, which ran through the county to Henrietta. As construction progressed, the population rose from a few hundred in 1870 to over 5,000 in 1880. That year the county had 635 farms and over 58,000 cattle. In 1887, Henrietta got another railroad connection to Missouri and Kansas , which raised the population to over 17,000 in 1910. The main sources of income were the cultivation of cotton, wheat and cattle breeding.

With the onset of the Great Depression , the rural exodus began and the population fell from 16,800 to 8,079 in 1970. It was not until the establishment of small and light industry in the 1970s and 1980s that the trend reversed.

Two of the county's structures are on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) as of October 19, 2018, the Clay County Courthouse and Jail and the State Highway 79 Bridge at the Red River .

Demographic data

According to the 2000 census , Clay County had 11,006 people in 4,323 households and 3,181 families. The population density was 4 people per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 95.35 percent white, 0.42 percent African American, 1.03 percent Native American, 0.10 percent Asian, 0.01 percent of residents from the Pacific island area and 1.68 percent from other ethnic groups Groups; 1.42 percent were descended from two or more races. 3.67 percent of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Of the 4,323 households, 30.7 percent had children or young people living with them. 63.2 percent were married couples living together, 7.3 percent were single mothers and 26.4 percent were non-families. 23.5 percent were single households and 11.8 percent had people aged 65 years or over. The average household size was 2.52 and the average family size was 2.98 people.

24.9 percent of the population was under 18 years old, 6.8 percent between 18 and 24, 26.4 percent between 25 and 44, 25.9 percent between 45 and 64 and 16.1 percent were 65 years of age or older. The average age was 40 years. For every 100 females there were 94 males and for every 100 females age 18 or over there were 93.1 males.

The median income for a household in the county is $ 35,738 , and the median income for a family is $ 41,514. Males had a median income of $ 28,914 versus $ 20,975 for females. The per capita income was $ 16,361. 8.1 percent of families and 10.3 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Places in the county

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Clay County in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey . 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 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uscounties.org
  3. ↑ Texas Almanac: Population History of Countys from 1850–2010 (PDF; 698 kB), accessed 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. 61 .
  5. ↑ Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed October 19, 2018.
  6. ^ Clay County, Texas , 2000 census data sheet at factfinder.census.gov .

Web links

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Coordinates: 33 ° 47 ′  N , 98 ° 12 ′  W