Hot Spring County

administration
Hot Spring County Courthouse
US state :	Arkansas
Administrative headquarters :	Malvern
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse 210 Locust Streety Malvern, AR 72104-3791
Foundation :	November 2, 1829
Made up from:	Clark County
Area code :	001 501
Demographics
Residents :	32,923 (2010)
Population density :	20.7 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1611 km²
Water surface :	19 km²
map

The Hot Spring County is a county in the US state of Arkansas . The county seat is Malvern . The county is part of the dry counties , which means that the sale of alcohol is restricted or prohibited.

geography

The county is located southwest of the geographic center of Arkansas and has an area of 1,611 square kilometers, of which 19 square kilometers are water. It borders on the following counties:

Montgomery County	Garland County	Saline County
		Grant County
Clark County		Dallas County ,

history

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1830	458	-
1840	1907	316.4%
1850	3609	89.3%
1860	5635	56.1%
1870	5877	4.3%
1880	7775	32.3%
1890	11,603	49.2%
1900	12,748	9.9%
1910	15,022	17.8%
1920	17,784	18.4%
1930	18,105	1.8%
1940	18,916	4.5%
1950	22,181	17.3%
1960	21,893	-1.3%
1970	21,963	0.3%
1980	26,819	22.1%
1990	26,115	-2.6%
2000	30,353	16.2%
2010	32,923	8.5%
1830-1890 1900-1990 2000 2010 Hot Spring County's age pyramid (as of 2000)

The Hot Spring County was formed on November 2, 1829 from parts of Clark County as the 18th County in Arkansas. It was named after the hot springs located here, which were later used as medicinal springs. Ironically, the hot springs are no longer within county boundaries.

First county seat was in Hot Springs. In 1844 it became Rockport. In 1866 the two-story County Courthouse was completed, but it was destroyed by fire on January 23, 1873. The Cairo and Fulton Railroad (later Missouri Pacific Railroad ) offered the city of Rockport a connection to its rail network for an investment. When Rockport refused, the railroad moved the rails to Malvern in 1873, which it found more profitable. From now on, Malvern served as a transfer point between the railroad and the stagecoach routes. On October 15, 1878, Malvern was elected to the county seat.

Demographic data

According to the 2010 census , Hot Spring County had 32,923 people in 11,660 households. The population density was 20.7 inhabitants per square kilometer.

The racial the population was composed of 85.6 percent white, 10.8 percent African American, 0.5 percent Native American, 0.3 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 1.7 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 2.8 percent of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Statistically, there were 2.64 people in each of the 11,660 households.

22.8 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 61.7 percent were between 18 and 64 and 15.5 percent were 65 years or older. 49.8 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 36,387 USD . The per capita income was $ 17,922. 17.2 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.