Crawford County, Arkansas

administration
Crawford County Courthouse
US state :	Arkansas
Administrative headquarters :	Van Buren
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse 300 Main Street Van Buren, AR 72956-5765
Foundation :	October 18, 1820
Made up from:	Pulaski County
Area code :	001 479
Demographics
Residents :	61,948 (2010)
Population density :	40.2 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1565 km²
Water surface :	23 km²
map

Website : www.crawford-county.org

The Crawford County is a county in the US state of Arkansas . The county seat is Van Buren . The county is part of the dry counties , which means that the sale of alcohol is restricted or prohibited.

geography

The county is located in northwest Arkansas, bordering Oklahoma to the west and has an area of 1,565 square kilometers, of which 23 square kilometers are water. It borders on the following counties:

Adair County, Oklahoma	Washington County	Madison County
Sequoyah County, Oklahoma		Franklin County
Le Flore County, Oklahoma	Sebastian County

history

WH Crawford

Crawford County was formed on October 18, 1820 from parts of Pulaski County and in 1820 was the largest county in Arkansas.

It was named after William Harris Crawford (1772-1834), a US Secretary of War (1815-1816) and Treasury Secretary (1816-1825)

In the period that followed, eight more counties and an Indian reservation emerged from Crawford County. The first newspaper, the Arkansas Intelligencer , was published in 1842. The first telegraph connection was laid in 1851 and the Butterfield Overland Mail's first stagecoach ran from September 1858.

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1830	2440	-
1840	4266	74.8%
1850	7960	86.6%
1860	7850	-1.4%
1870	8957	14.1%
1880	14,740	64.6%
1890	21,714	47.3%
1900	21,270	-2%
1910	23,942	12.6%
1920	25,739	7.5%
1930	22,549	-12.4%
1940	23,920	6.1%
1950	22,727	-5%
1960	21,318	-6.2%
1970	25,677	20.4%
1980	36,892	43.7%
1990	42,493	15.2%
2000	53,247	25.3%
2010	61,948	16.3%
1830-1890 1900-1990 2010

The Van Buren Confederate Monument in Van Buren, listed in the NRHP since 1996

Van Buren Historic District , listed on the NRHP since 1976

According to the 2010 census , Crawford County had 61,948 people in 21,350 households. The population density was 40.2 people per square kilometer.

The racial the population was composed of 89.1 percent white, 1.2 percent African American, 2.2 percent Native American, 1.4 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 2.9 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 6.1 percent of the population.

Statistically, there were 2.74 people each in the 21,350 households.

26.4 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 60.9 percent were between 18 and 64 and 12.7 percent were 65 years or older. 50.6 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 39,618 USD . The per capita income was $ 18,637. 17.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.