Garza County

administration
The Garza County Courthouse in Post, listed on the NRHP with the number 01001266
US state :	Texas
Administrative headquarters :	post Office
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Garza County Courthouse P.O. Box 366 Post, TX 79356
Foundation :	1876
Made up from:	Bexar County
Area code :	001 806
Demographics
Residents :	6461 (2010)
Population density :	2.8 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	2321 km²
Water surface :	2 km²
map

Website : home.earthlink.net/~garzacounty

The Garza County is a county in the state of Texas of the United States . The county seat is in Post .

geography

The county is located northwest of the geographic center of Texas, about 150 km to the northeast from Oklahoma and about 120 km to the west from New Mexico . It has an area of 2321 square kilometers, of which 2 square kilometers are water. It is bordered in a clockwise direction by the following counties: Crosby County , Kent County , Scurry County , Borden County, and Lynn County .

history

Garza County was formed in 1876 from parts of Bexar County . It was named after the de la Garza family from San Antonio , who were one of the wealthiest in the region. José Antonio de la Garza minted the first coins in Texas in 1818, on the reverse of which a single star (English: “Lone Star”) was depicted. Possibly this was decisive for the later shape of the Texan flag .

Six structures and sites in the county are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) as of May 29, 2019, including the Garza County Courthouse .

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1880	36	-
1890	14th	-61.1%
1900	185	1,221.4%
1910	1995	978.4%
1920	4253	113.2%
1930	5586	31.3%
1940	5678	1.6%
1950	6281	10.6%
1960	6611	5.3%
1970	5289	-20%
1980	5336	0.9%
1990	5143	-3.6%
2000	4872	-5.3%
2010	6461	32.6%
1880-2010 Age pyramid of Garza County (as of 2000)

Brazos Double Mountain Fork

First United Methodist Church

As of the 2000 census , Garza County had 4,872 people in 1,663 households and 1,217 families. The population density was 2 people per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 56.70 percent white, 4.80 percent African American, 0.20 percent Native American, 0.10 percent Asian and 17.10 percent from other ethnic groups; 3.00 percent were descended from two or more races. 3.00 percent of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Of the 1,663 households, 36.0 percent had children or young people living with them. 58.5 percent were married couples living together, 11.2 percent were single mothers and 26.8 percent were non-families. 23.8 percent were single households and 12.0 percent had people aged 65 years or over. The average household size was 2.65 and the average family size was 3.15 people.

28.0 percent of the population was under 18 years old, 7.9 percent between 18 and 24, 28.6 percent between 25 and 44, 21.3 percent between 45 and 64 and 14.1 percent were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females there were 112.3 males and for every 100 females age 18 or over there were 111.3 males.

The median income for a household in the city is $ 27,206 , and the median income for a family is $ 31,173. Males had a median income of $ 26,604 versus $ 18,105 for females. The per capita income was $ 12,704. 17.5 percent of families and 22.3 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

cities and communes

Individual evidence

^ Extract from the National Register of Historic Places . Retrieved March 13, 2011
^ Garza 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 from April 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved October 10, 2012 @1@ 2

↑ Linda Puckett: Garza County. Arcadia, Charleston 2010, ISBN 978-0-7385-7909-2 , p. 7 .

↑ Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed May 29, 2019.
Weekly List on the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed May 29, 2019.

↑ Texas Almanac: Population History of Countys from 1860–2010 (PDF; 698 kB), accessed September 18, 2012

↑ Garza County, Texas , 2000 census data sheet at factfinder.census.gov .