Dallas County, Arkansas

administration
Dallas County Courthouse
US state :	Arkansas
Administrative headquarters :	Fordyce
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse 202 3rd Street West Fordyce, AR 71742-3223
Foundation :	January 1, 1845
Made up from:	Bradley County Clark County
Area code :	001 870
Demographics
Residents :	8116 (2010)
Population density :	4.7 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1731 km²
Water surface :	2 km²
map

Website : countyar.com/dallas

The Dallas County is a county in the US state of Arkansas . The county seat is Fordyce .

geography

The county is located in south central Arkansas and has an area of 1731 square kilometers, of which two square kilometers are water. It borders on the following counties:

Hot Spring County		Grant County
Clark County		Cleveland County
Ouachita County		Calhoun County

history

GM Dallas

Dallas County was formed on January 1, 1845 from parts of Bradley County and Clark County.

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1850	6877	-
1860	8283	20.4%
1870	5707	-31.1%
1880	6505	14%
1890	9296	42.9%
1900	11,518	23.9%
1910	12,621	9.6%
1920	14,424	14.3%
1930	14,671	1.7%
1940	14,471	-1.4%
1950	12,416	-14.2%
1960	10,522	-15.3%
1970	10,022	-4.8%
1980	10,515	4.9%
1990	9614	-8.6%
2000	9210	-4.2%
2010	8116	-11.9%
1850-1890 1900-1990 2010

It was named after George M. Dallas (1792–1864), who served from 1845 to 1849 as the eleventh Vice President of the USA.

In 1846 the first county courthouse was built. The previous county affairs were conducted in a private house. In 1850 the county had 256 slave owners and 2,542 slaves.

Demographic data

As of the 2010 census , Dallas County had 8,116 people in 3,297 households. The population density was 4.7 people per square kilometer.

The racial the population was composed of 55.2 percent white, 41.9 percent African American, 0.4 percent Native American, 0.1 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 1.3 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 2.3 percent of the population.

Statistically, 2.34 people lived in the 3,297 households.

24.6 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 59.1 percent were between 18 and 64 and 16.3 percent were 65 years or older. 51.4 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 30,454 USD . The per capita income was $ 16,971. 23.3 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.