Howard County, Arkansas

administration
Howard County Courthouse
US state :	Arkansas
Administrative headquarters :	Nashville
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse 421 North Main Street Nashville, AR 71852-2007
Foundation :	April 17, 1873
Made up from:	Hempstead County Pike County Polk County Sevier County
Area code :	001 870
Demographics
Residents :	13,789 (2010)
Population density :	9.1 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1542 km²
Water surface :	20 km²
map

The Cossatot River in Cossatot Reefs Park

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

geography

The county is located in southwest Arkansas, about 30 km to the west from Oklahoma , to the southwest about 40 km from Texas , and has an area of 1,542 square kilometers, of which 20 square kilometers are water. It borders on the following counties:

	Polk County	Montgomery County
Sevier County		Pike County
Little River County		Hempstead County

history

Howard County was formed on April 17, 1873 from parts of Hempstead County, Pike County, Polk County and Sevier County. It was named after James H. Howard , a senator in Arkansas.

The first district capital was Center Point. In 1905 this became Nashville, as the Arkansas & Louisiana Railroad ran from Nashville to Hope.

One of the first settlers in the area was John Tollett, a Methodist from Bledsoe County , Tennessee , who settled here from 1819. After exploring the area two years earlier, he made all the preparations to move here with several families. In 1819 he arrived with the families and a large number of slaves and settled here. The first sawmill was built in 1825 and the first post office was set up in 1842.

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1880	9917	-
1890	13,789	39%
1900	14,076	2.1%
1910	16,898	20%
1920	18,565	9.9%
1930	17,489	-5.8%
1940	16,621	-5%
1950	13,342	-19.7%
1960	10,878	-18.5%
1970	11,412	4.9%
1980	13,459	17.9%
1990	13,569	0.8%
2000	14,300	5.4%
2010	13,789	-3.6%
1880-1890 1900-1990 2000 2010

According to the 2010 census , Howard County had 13,789 people in 5,463 households. The population density was .. inhabitants per square kilometer.

The racial the population was composed of 71.8 percent white, 20.6 percent African American, 0.7 percent Native American, 0.6 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 1.3 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 9.8 percent of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Statistically, 2.56 people lived in each of the 5,463 households.

26.0 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 59.5 percent were between 18 and 64 and 14.5 percent were 65 years or older. 50.8 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 31,196 USD . The per capita income was $ 19,218. 19.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.