Gainesville, Texas
| Gainesville | |
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 Gainesville around 1883 |
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| Location of Gainesville, Texas | |
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| Basic data | |
| State : | United States |
| State : | Texas |
| County : | Cooke County |
| Coordinates : | 33 ° 37 ′ N , 97 ° 9 ′ W |
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) |
| Residents : | 16.002 (as of 2010) |
| Population density : | 363.7 inhabitants per km 2 |
| Area : | 44.1 km 2 (approx. 17 mi 2 ) of which 44.0 km 2 (approx. 17 mi 2 ) is land |
| Height : | 229 m |
| Postcodes : | 76240-76241 |
| Area code : | +1 940 |
| FIPS : | 48-27984 |
| GNIS ID : | 1373791 |
 Gainesville 1891 |
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Gainesville is a rural small town and the seat of the county government of Cooke County in the US state of Texas on the border with Oklahoma in the United States .
geography
The city covers an area of 44.1 km², of which 44.0 km² is land and 0.1 km² is water.
Demographics
Gainesville currently has 15,538 people. The population density is 352.9 / km². Of the 15,538 residents, 80.77% are white, 6.00% black, 1.33% native, 0.55% Asian, 9.11% other, 17.47% Latin American, and 2.23% multiracial.
The residents of Gainesville live in 5,969 households. 49.2% of households consist of married couples, 33.2% have children under the age of 18.
The average age is 34 years.
| growth of population | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Census | Residents | ± in% | |
| 1880 | 2667 | - | |
| 1890 | 6594 | 147.2% | |
| 1900 | 7874 | 19.4% | |
| 1910 | 7624 | -3.2% | |
| 1920 | 8643 | 13.4% | |
| 1930 | 8915 | 3.1% | |
| 1940 | 9651 | 8.3% | |
| 1950 | 11,246 | 16.5% | |
| 1960 | 13,083 | 16.3% | |
| 1970 | 13,830 | 5.7% | |
| 1980 | 14,081 | 1.8% | |
| 1990 | 14,256 | 1.2% | |
| 2000 | 15,538 | 9% | |
| 2010 | 16.002 | 3% | |
| 1880-2000, 2010 | |||
particularities
In the magazine Extra - The RTL magazine , the Cologne TV station RTL has been accompanying the German emigrant family Reimann from Hamburg , who had settled in Gainesville, since July 2004 . It was also featured in the documentary soap Goodbye Germany! The emigrants of the TV station VOX (which also belongs to the RTL Group ) reported about this family. In late 2015, the couple moved to O'ahu , Hawaii, and then sold their property in Gainesville to another German immigrant.
sons and daughters of the town
- Gene Austin (1900–1972), singer and actor
- Rose Franken , author of novels, plays and screenplays
- Monette Moore (1902–1962), jazz and blues singer
- Charles Paddock (1900–1943), track and field athlete and two-time Olympic champion
- Jake Roberts (* 1955), wrestler alias Jake "The Snake" Roberts
- Claude Weaver , politician, member of the US House of Representatives
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Texas Almanac (PDF; 1.2 MB). Retrieved October 4, 2012
- ↑ US Census ( Memento of the original from October 27, 2015 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 16, 2012
Web links
- Official website of Gainesville (English)
- Gainesville in the Handbook of Texas (Engl.)
- Statistics Gainesville (Engl.)