Conway County

administration
Conway County Courthouse
US state :	Arkansas
Administrative headquarters :	Morrilton
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse 117 South Moose Street Morrilton, AR 72110-3400
Foundation :	October 20, 1825
Made up from:	Pulaski County
Area code :	001 501
Demographics
Residents :	21,273 (2010)
Population density :	14.8 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1468 km²
Water surface :	27 km²
map

The Conway County is a county in the US state of Arkansas . The county seat is Morrilton .

geography

The county is east of the geographic center of Arkansas and has an area of 1,468 square kilometers, of which 27 square kilometers are water. It borders on the following counties:

	Van Buren County
Pope County		Faulkner County
Yell County	Perry County

history

Conway

The Petit Jean State Park

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1830	982	-
1840	2892	194.5%
1850	3583	23.9%
1860	6697	86.9%
1870	8112	21.1%
1880	12,755	57.2%
1890	19,459	52.6%
1900	19,772	1.6%
1910	22,729	15%
1920	22,578	-0.7%
1930	21,949	-2.8%
1940	21,536	-1.9%
1950	18,137	-15.8%
1960	15,430	-14.9%
1970	16.805	8.9%
1980	19,505	16.1%
1990	19,151	-1.8%
2000	20,336	6.2%
2010	21,273	4.6%
1830-1890 1900-1990 2010 Conway County's age pyramid (as of 2000)

Conway County was formed on October 20, 1825 from parts of Pulaski County. It was named after Henry Wharton Conway , a member of the congressional delegation from Arkansas.

In January 1872, the county’s Lewisburg’s first newspaper, Wide Awake, was published. The Western Empire also started in May of the same year . The only daily newspaper still available today is the Petit Jean Country Headlight . The newspaper publisher was founded on April 8, 1874.

In 1889 Conway County gained negative national attention. John Middleton Clayton, the brother of former Governor Powell Clayton , was murdered in Plumerville. John Clayton ran in the 1888 congressional election against Democrat Clifton Rodes Breckinridge and narrowly lost. Clayton had the support of black Republican voters. In Conway County, a ballot box was stolen by four white armed men in a constituency that was mostly black. Clayton fought for the election and drove to Plumerville to investigate the missing votes. On January 29, 1889, he was shot through the window of his pension and died immediately. This incident went down as one of the most fraudulent elections in Arkansas history.

Demographic data

As of the 2010 census , Conway County had 21,273 people in 8,185 households. The population density was 14.8 inhabitants per square kilometer.

The racial the population was composed of 84.2 percent white, 11.2 percent African American, 0.7 percent Native American, 0.4 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 2.0 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 3.6 percent of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Statistically, 2.51 people lived in each of the 8,185 households.

24.5 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 60.0 percent were between 18 and 64 and 15.5 percent were 65 years or older. 51.0 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 36,356 USD . The per capita income was $ 19,562. 19.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.