Edwards County, Texas

administration
The Edwards County Courthouse in Rocksprings, listed on the NRHP with number 79002932
US state :	Texas
Administrative headquarters :	Rocksprings
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Edwards County Courthouse P.O. Box 184 Rocksprings, TX 78880-0184
Foundation :	1858
Made up from:	Bexar County
Area code :	001 830
Demographics
Residents :	2002 (2010)
Population density :	0.4 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	5491 km²
Water surface :	0 km²
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The Edwards County is a county in the state of Texas of the United States . The county seat is in Rocksprings .

geography

The county is located southwest of the geographic center of Texas and is approximately 25 miles from Mexico . It has an area of 5491 square kilometers, without any significant water surface. The county is bordered by counties in a clockwise direction: Sutton County , Kimble County , Kerr County , Real County , Kinney County, and Val Verde Counties .

history

Edwards County was formed from parts of Bexar County on February 1, 1858 , and the administrative organization was completed on April 10, 1883. It was named after Haden Edwards (1771-1849), one of the first Anglo-American settlers in Nacogdoches County and leader of the Fredonian Rebellion .

The Edwards County Courthouse is one of the county's buildings on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) (as of February 7, 2018).

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1880	266	-
1890	1970	640.6%
1900	3108	57.8%
1910	3768	21.2%
1920	2283	-39.4%
1930	2764	21.1%
1940	2933	6.1%
1950	2908	-0.9%
1960	2317	-20.3%
1970	2107	-9.1%
1980	2033	-3.5%
1990	2266	11.5%
2000	2162	-4.6%
2010	2002	-7.4%
1880-2010 Edwards County's age pyramid (as of 2000)

The Texas State Highway 55 in Edwards County, inclusion in the south

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As of the 2000 census , Edwards County had 2,162 people in 801 households and 586 families. The population density was 0.4 inhabitants per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 83.26 percent white, 0.79 percent African American, 0.79 percent Native American, 0.14 percent Asian and 12.72 percent from other ethnic groups; 2.31 percent were descended from two or more races. 45.05 percent of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Of the 801 households, 31.7 percent had children or young people living with them. 60.8 percent were married couples living together, 8.9 percent were single mothers and 26.8 percent were non-families. 24.7 percent were single households and 13.5 percent had people aged 65 years or over. The average household size was 2.66 and the average family size was 3.20 people.

28.5 percent of the population was under 18 years old, 6.5 percent between 18 and 24, 23.2 percent between 25 and 44, 25.7 percent between 45 and 64 and 16.2 percent were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females there were 102.6 males and for every 100 females age 18 or over there were 98.2 males.

The median income for a household in the county is $ 25,298 , and the median income for a family is $ 27,083. Males had a median income of $ 21,912 versus $ 14,907 for females. The per capita income was $ 12,691. 24.6 percent of families and 31.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Places in the county

Individual evidence

^ Extract from the National Register of Historic Places . Retrieved March 13, 2011
^ Edwards County in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey . Retrieved February 22, 2011
↑ Information from the National Association of Counties ( Memento of the original dated April 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved October 10, 2012 @1@ 2

↑ 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. 93 .

↑ Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed February 7, 2018.

↑ Texas Almanac: Population History of Countys from 1850–2010 (PDF file; 682 kB), accessed September 18, 2012

^ Edwards County, Texas , 2000 census data sheet at factfinder.census.gov .