Hartley County

administration
The Hartley County Courthouse and Jail , listed on the NRHP as No. 87002237
US state :	Texas
Administrative headquarters :	Channing
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Hartley County Courthouse P.O. Box Q Channing, TX 79018
Foundation :	1876
Made up from:	Bexar County Young County
Area code :	001 806
Demographics
Residents :	6062 (2010)
Population density :	1.6 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	3790 km²
Water surface :	2 km²
map

Website : www.co.hartley.tx.us

The Hartley County is a county in the state of Texas of the United States . The county seat is in Channing .

geography

The county is located northwest of the geographic center of Texas in the Texas Panhandle , on the New Mexico border and about 25 miles from the Oklahoma border. It has an area of 3790 square kilometers, of which 2 square kilometers are water. It is bordered clockwise by the following counties: Dallam County , Moore County , Oldham County, and in New Mexico by Quay Counties and Union Counties .

history

Hartley County was formed on August 21, 1876 from parts of Bexar County and Young County . The administrative organization was completed on February 9, 1891. It was named after the brothers Oliver Cromwell Hartley (1823-1859) and Rufus K. Hartley . Oliver Cromwell served as an officer in the Mexican-American War and was then a publicist on court decisions at the Texas Supreme Court, the highest court in the state. In 1850 he published a collection of laws. For the next two years he was a member of the State Legislature . Rufus K. was, like his brother, a rapporteur at the Texas Supreme Court from 1846 to 1859.

Four structures in the county are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) as of July 13, 2019, including the Hartley County Courthouse and Jail .

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1880	100	-
1890	252	152%
1900	377	49.6%
1910	1298	244.3%
1920	1109	-14.6%
1930	2185	97%
1940	1873	-14.3%
1950	1913	2.1%
1960	2171	13.5%
1970	2782	28.1%
1980	3987	43.3%
1990	3634	-8.9%
2000	5537	52.4%
2010	6062	9.5%
1850-2010 Hartley County's age pyramid (as of 2000)

Main office of the XIT Ranch , listed in the NRHP with the number 85000960

Official notice of the NRHP

According to the 2000 census , Hartley County had 5,537 people in 1,604 households and 1,220 families. The population density was 1 person per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 81.07 percent white, 8.15 percent African American, 0.43 percent Native American, 0.27 percent Asian, 0.05 percent of residents from the Pacific island area and 8.60 percent from other ethnic groups Groups; 1.43 percent were descended from two or more races. 13.69 percent of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Of the 1,604 households, 35.5 percent had children or young people living with them. 68.9 percent were married couples living together, 4.7 percent were single mothers and 23.9 percent were non-families. 21.6 percent were single households and 11.8 percent had people aged 65 years or over. The average household size was 2.56 and the average family size was 2.98 people.

20.8 percent of the population was under 18 years old, 4.7 percent between 18 and 24, 35.7 percent between 25 and 44, 26.9 percent between 45 and 64 and 11.9 percent were 65 years of age or older. The average age was 40 years. For every 100 females there were 154.1 males and for every 100 females age 18 or over there were 172.9 males.

The median income for a household in the county is $ 46,327 , and the median income for a family is $ 53,004. Males had a median income of $ 29,783 versus $ 21,783 for females. The per capita income was $ 18,067. 3.7 percent of families and 6.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Places in the county

Exum
Hartley

Romero
Wilco

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Extract from the National Register of Historic Places . Retrieved March 13, 2011
↑ Hartley County in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System . 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. 132 .

↑ Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed July 13, 2019.
Weekly List on the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed July 13, 2019.

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

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