Howard County, Texas

administration
Howard County Courthouse
US state :	Texas
Administrative headquarters :	Big Spring
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Howard County Courthouse P.O. Box 1468 Big Spring, TX 79721-1468
Foundation :	1876
Made up from:	Bexar County
Area code :	001 432
Demographics
Residents :	35,012 (2010)
Population density :	15 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	2342 km²
Water surface :	4 km²
map

Website : www.co.howard.tx.us

The Howard County is a county in the state of Texas of the United States . The county seat is in Big Spring .

geography

The county is located northwest of the geographic center of Texas and about 90 km to the west from New Mexico . It has an area of 2342 square kilometers, of which four square kilometers are water. It is bordered by counties in a clockwise direction: Borden County , Mitchell County , Sterling County , Glasscock County, and Martin County .

history

Howard County was formed on August 21, 1876 from parts of Bexar County . The administrative organization was completed on June 15, 1882. It was named after Volney Howard , who was a member of the House of Representatives for Texas from 1849 to 1853 . Howard was wounded in a duel with Hiram Runnels in 1840 . After serving in Congress in Washington, DC , he was a district attorney and judge in Los Angeles .

Settles Hotel (2013)

Two structures in the county are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) as of November 4, 2019, including the Settles Hotel .

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1880	50	-
1890	1210	2,320%
1900	2528	108.9%
1910	8881	251.3%
1920	6962	-21.6%
1930	22,888	228.8%
1940	20,990	-8.3%
1950	26,722	27.3%
1960	40.139	50.2%
1970	37,796	-5.8%
1980	33,142	-12.3%
1990	32,343	-2.4%
2000	23,627	-26.9%
2010	35,012	48.2%
1880-2010 Howard County's age pyramid (as of 2000)

County wind farm

According to the 2000 census , Howard County had 33,627 people; 11,389 households and 7,949 families were counted. The population density was 14 inhabitants per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 80.14 percent white, 4.13 percent African American, 0.59 percent Native American, 0.59 percent Asian, 0.01 percent of residents from the Pacific island area and 12.43 percent from other ethnic groups Groups; 2.10 percent were descended from two or more races. 37.46 percent of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Of the 11,389 households, 32.8 percent had children or young people living with them. 53.3 percent were married couples living together, 12.2 percent were single mothers and 30.2 percent were non-families. 26.8 percent were single households and 13.2 percent had people aged 65 or over. The average household size was 2.53 and the average family size was 3.07 people.

24.2 percent of the population was under 18 years old, 9.0 percent between 18 and 24, 30.9 percent between 25 and 44, 21.3 percent between 45 and 64 and 14.6 percent were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females there were 118 males and for every 100 females age 18 or over there were 122.5 males.

The median income for a household in the city is $ 30,805 , and the median income for a family is $ 37,262. Males had a median income of $ 28,971 versus $ 21,390 for females. The per capita income was $ 15,027. 14.5 percent of families and 18.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Places in the county

Individual evidence

↑ Howard 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 April 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet 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. 142.

↑ Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed November 4, 2019.
Weekly List on the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed November 4, 2019.

↑ Texas Almanac: Population History of Countys from 1850–2010 (PDF; 698 kB), accessed September 18, 2012

^ Howard County, Texas , 2000 census data sheet at factfinder.census.gov .