Hays County

administration
The Hays County Courthouse , listed on the NRHP with number 80004134
US state :	Texas
Administrative headquarters :	San Marcos
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Hays County Courthouse 137 N. Guadalupe San Marcos, TX 78666
Foundation :	1848
Made up from:	Travis County
Area code :	001 512
Demographics
Residents :	157,107 (2010)
Population density :	89.5 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1761 km²
Water surface :	5 km²
map

Website : www.co.hays.tx.us

The Hays County is a county in the state of Texas in the United States . The county seat is in San Marcos .

geography

The county is located about 100 km southeast of the geographic center of Texas and has an area of 1761 square kilometers, of which 5 square kilometers are water. It is bordered in a clockwise direction by the following counties: Travis County , Caldwell County , Guadalupe County , Comal County, and Blanco Counties .

history

Paleo-Indians were the area's indigenous population approximately 6000 AD. Tonkawa Indians were engaged in agriculture as early as 1200 BC. Chr.

Hays County was formed in 1848 from parts of Travis County. It was named after John Coffee Hays (1817-1883), an officer in the Texas Rangers who served in the Mexican-American as a colonel under Zachary Taylor and fought, among other things, in the Battle of Monterrey . He was then sheriff in San Francisco , co-founder of Oakland and in 1859 California's chief surveyor .

The Rylander-Kyle House is one of 56 entries for the county in the NRHP.

56 structures and sites in the county are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) as of October 24, 2019.

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1850	387	-
1860	2126	449.4%
1870	4088	92.3%
1880	7555	84.8%
1890	11,352	50.3%
1900	14,142	24.6%
1910	15,518	9.7%
1920	15,920	2.6%
1930	14,915	-6.3%
1940	15,349	2.9%
1950	17,840	16.2%
1960	19,934	11.7%
1970	27,642	38.7%
1980	40,594	46.9%
1990	65,614	61.6%
2000	97,589	48.7%
2010	157.107	61%
1850-2010 Hays County's age pyramid (as of 2000)

The Blanco River in Hays County

Pound Farmstead , listed on the NRHP with the number 95000929

Bunton Branch Bridge , listed on the NRHP with number 02000086

According to the 2000 census , Hays County had 97,589 people in 33,410 households and 22,150 families. The population density was 56 inhabitants per km². The racial the population was composed of 78.92 percent white, 3.68 percent African American, 0.69 percent Native American, 0.79 percent Asian, 0.07 percent of residents from the Pacific island area and 13.36 percent from other ethnic groups Groups; 2.49 percent were descended from two or more races. 29.57 percent of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Of the 33,410 households, 34.0 percent had children or young people living with them. 53.1 percent were married couples living together, 9.0 percent were single mothers and 33.7 percent were non-families. 21.0 percent were single households and 4.9 percent had people aged 65 or over. The average household size was 2.69 and the average family size was 3.21 people.

24.5 percent of the population was under 18 years old, 20.5 percent between 18 and 24, 28.2 percent between 25 and 44, 19.1 percent between 45 and 64 and 7.7 percent were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 28 years. For every 100 females there were 101.3 males and for every 100 females age 18 or over there were 99.5 males.

The median income for a household in the city is $ 45,006 , and the median income for a family is $ 56,287. Males had a median income of $ 35,209 versus $ 27,334 for females. The per capita income was $ 19,931. 6.4 percent of families and 14.3 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

cities and communes

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Excerpt from the National Register of Historic Places . Retrieved March 13, 2011
^ Hays 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 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. 133.

↑ 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 October 24, 2019.

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

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