Huachuca City

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Huachuca City
Cochise County Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Huachuca City highlighted.svg
Location in County and Arizona
Basic data
Foundation : 1958
State : United States
State : Arizona
County : Cochise County
Coordinates : 31 ° 38 ′  N , 110 ° 20 ′  W Coordinates: 31 ° 38 ′  N , 110 ° 20 ′  W
Time zone : Mountain Standard Time ( UTC − 7 )
Residents : 1,853 (as of 2010)
Population density : 257.4 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 7.3 km 2  (approx. 3 mi 2 ) of
which 7.2 km 2  (approx. 3 mi 2 ) is land
Height : 1341 m
Postal code : 85616
Area code : +1 520
FIPS : 04-34120
GNIS ID : 0006076
Website : www.huachucacityaz.gov
Mayor : George S. Nerhan

Huachuca City is a town in Cochise County in the US state of Arizona . At the time of the 2010 United States Census , Huachuca City had 1,853 residents.

geography

Huachuca City is located in the southwestern part of Cochise County, just north of Sierra Vista and Fort Huachuca . The Arizona State Route 90 connects the city to Interstate 10 at Benson , 17 miles away . The closest airport is Sierra Vista Municipal Airport .

According to the United States Census Bureau , the town has an area of ​​7.3 km²; there are no significant bodies of water.

The climate in Huachuca City is semi-arid (Bsk).

history

Huachuca City was originally a railway station on the Southern Pacific Railroad . First the place was called Campstone Station, later Sunset City, before it was given its current name. The history of the place is not only connected to the railway, but also to the neighboring Fort Huachuca , which was founded in 1877. The place is in the original settlement area of ​​the Chiricahua , but after the Civil War many settlers came to the area and the Indians were displaced. In the Apache languages , today's place name means something like " thunder "; The nearby Huachuca Mountains also bear the name .

Demographics

Population development
Census Residents ± in%
1960 1330 -
1970 1241 -6.7%
1980 1661 33.8%
1990 1782 7.3%
2000 1751 -1.7%
2010 1853 5.8%
2015 estimate 1755 -5.3%
US Decennial Census
2014 estimate

At the time of the United States Census 2000, Huachuca City was inhabited by 1,751 people. The population density was 241.5 people per km ². There were 844 housing units at an average of 116.4 per km ². The population in Huachuca City was 75.39% White , 6.80% Black or African American , 2.68% Native American , 1.48% Asian , 0.23% Pacific Islander , 8.17% said belonging to other races and 5.25% named two or more races. 16.28% of the population declared to be Hispanic or Latino of any race.

The residents of Huachuca City distributed to 713 households out of which 31.3% were living in children under the age of 18. 44.3% of households were married, 12.3% had a female head of the household without a husband and 39.3% were not families. 32.8% of households were made up of individuals and someone lived in 11.5% of all households aged 65 years or older. The average household size was 2.43 and the average family size was 3.13.

The population was divided into 28.4% minors, 8.8% 18–24 year olds, 25.5% 25–44 year olds, 24.6% 45–64 year olds and 12.7% aged 65 and over or more. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 women there were 93.1 men. For every 100 women over 18, there were 89.4 men.

The median household income in Huachuca City was 26,311 US dollars and the median family income reached the amount of 33,938 US dollars. The median income for men was $ 26,685 compared to $ 20,179 for women. The per capita income was $ 14,378. 19.3% of the population and 13.8% of families had an income below the poverty line , including 24.6% of minors and 14.7% of those aged 65 and over.

Web links

Commons : Huachuca City  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sandy Nestor: Huachuca . In: Indian Place Names in America ( English ), Vol McFarland & Company, Jefferson, North Carolina in 2004, the first ISBN 978-0-7864-7167-6 , page 23 (Accessed on May 14, 2017).
  2. Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015 ( English ) Archived from the original on June 2, 2016. Retrieved on July 2 2016th
  3. United States Census Bureau : Census of Population and Housing ( English ) Archived from the original on May 12, 2015. Accessed August 31, 2014.
  4. Population Estimates ( English ) United States Census Bureau . Archived from the original on May 22, 2015. Retrieved July 12, 2015.