Goliad County

administration
Goliad County Courthouse, located in the Goliad County Courthouse Historic District , listed on the NRHP with number 76002034
US state :	Texas
Administrative headquarters :	Goliad
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Goliad County P.O. Box 50 Goliad, TX 77963-0005
Foundation :	1836
Made up from:	Original County
Area code :	001 512
Demographics
Residents :	7210 (2010)
Population density :	3.3 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	2226 km²
Water surface :	15 km²
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The Goliad County is a county in the state of Texas of the United States . The county seat is in Goliad .

geography

The county is located southeast of the geographic center of Texas, about 50 km off the Gulf of Mexico and has an area of 2226 square kilometers, of which 15 square kilometers are water. It is bordered clockwise by the following counties: DeWitt County , Victoria County , Refugio County , Bee County, and Karnes County .

history

Goliad County was formed as the original county on March 17, 1836, and the administrative organization was completed the next year. It was named after the Mexican settlement Goliad . This is an anagram from the name of the Mexican revolutionary (H) idalgo , with the voiceless H omitted.

13 buildings and sites in the county are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) (as of June 1, 2019). The county has a National Historic Landmark , the Spanish Fort Presidio Nuestra Senora de Loreto de la Bahia .

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1850	648	-
1860	3384	422.2%
1870	3628	7.2%
1880	5832	60.7%
1890	5910	1.3%
1900	8310	40.6%
1910	9909	19.2%
1920	9348	-5.7%
1930	10.093	8th %
1940	8798	-12.8%
1950	6219	-29.3%
1960	5429	-12.7%
1970	4869	-10.3%
1980	5193	6.7%
1990	5980	15.2%
2000	6928	15.9%
2010	7210	4.1%
1850-2010 Goliad County's age pyramid (as of 2000)

Presidio Nuestra Senora de Loreto de la Bahia , listed in the NRHP with the number 67000024

Mission Espíritu Santo

According to the 2000 census , Goliad County had 6,928 people in 2,644 households and 1,975 families. The population density was 3 people per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 82.62 percent white, 4.82 percent African American, 0.55 percent Native American, 0.22 percent Asian, 0.01 percent of residents from the Pacific island area and 10.05 percent from other ethnic groups Groups; 1.73 percent were descended from two or more races. 35.20 percent of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Of the 2,644 households, 33.1 percent had children or young people living with them. 62.1 percent were married couples living together, 8.7 percent were single mothers and 25.3 percent were non-families. 22.8 percent were single households and 11.9 percent had people aged 65 or over. The average household size was 2.57 and the average family size was 3.02 people.

25.9 percent of the population was under 18 years old, 6.5 percent between 18 and 24, 25.0 percent between 25 and 44, 25.2 percent between 45 and 64 and 17.5 percent were 65 years of age or older. The average age was 40 years. For every 100 females there were 98.9 males and for every 100 females age 18 or over there were 94.1 males.

The median income for a household in the city is $ 34,201 , and the median income for a family is $ 40,446. Males had a median income of $ 30,954 versus $ 20,028 for females. The per capita income was $ 17,126. 11.9 percent of families and 16.4 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Places in the county

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Extract from the National Register of Historic Places . Retrieved March 13, 2011
^ Goliad 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 January 24, 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. 115 .

↑ Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed June 1, 2019.
Weekly List on the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed June 1, 2019.

↑ Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: Texas. National Park Service , accessed June 1, 2019.

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

↑ Goliad County, Texas , 2000 census datasheet at factfinder.census.gov .