Hudspeth County

administration
Hudspeth County Courthouse in Sierra Blanca, listed on the NRHP with number 75001993
US state :	Texas
Administrative headquarters :	Sierra Blanca
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Hudspeth County Courthouse P.O. Box 58 Sierra Blanca, TX 79851-0058
Foundation :	1917
Made up from:	El Paso County
Area code :	001 915
Demographics
Residents :	3476 (2010)
Population density :	0.3 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	11,841 km²
Water surface :	2 km²
map

Website : www.co.hudspeth.tx.us/ips/cms/

The Hudspeth County is a county in the state of Texas of the United States . The county seat is in Sierra Blanca .

geography

The County is located in western Texas and is bordered to the north by New Mexico and south to Mexico . It has an area of 11,841 square kilometers, of which 2 square kilometers are water. It is bordered clockwise by the following counties: Otaro County , New Mexico, Culberson County , Jeff Davis County, and El Paso County .

history

Hudspeth County was formed on February 16, 1917 from parts of El Paso County. It was named after Claude Benton Hudspeth , a longtime MP in both houses of the State Legislature and the House of Representatives , of which he was a member from 1919 to 1931.

Remains of a commercial building on the Butterfield Overland Mail Corridor (2012)

88 structures and sites in the county are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) as of November 5, 2019, including the Butterfield Overland Mail Corridor .

Demographic data

Population development
Census	Residents	± in%
1920	962	-
1930	3728	287.5%
1940	3149	-15.5%
1950	4298	36.5%
1960	3343	-22.2%
1970	2392	-28.4%
1980	2728	14%
1990	2915	6.9%
2000	3344	14.7%
2010	3476	3.9%
1920-2010 Hudspeth County's age pyramid (as of 2000)

Salt Flat in Salt Flat , in the background the Guadalupe Mountains

As of the 2000 census , Hudspeth County had 3,344 people in 1,092 households and 841 families. The population density was 0.3 people per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 87.23 percent white, 0.33 percent African American, 1.41 percent Native American, 0.18 percent Asian and 8.76 percent from other ethnic groups; 2.09 percent were descended from two or more races. 75.03 percent of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Of the 1,092 households, 45.3 percent had children or young people living with them. 63.0 percent were married couples living together, 11.4 percent were single mothers and 22.9 percent were non-families. 21.1 percent were single households and 8.3 percent had people aged 65 years or over. The average household size was 3.30 and the average family size was 3.56 people.

34.1 percent of the population was under 18 years old, 8.9 percent between 18 and 24, 26.7 percent between 25 and 44, 20.4 percent between 45 and 64 and 9.9 percent were 65 years of age or older. The average age was 30 years. For every 100 females there were 102.9 males and for every 100 females age 18 or over there were 94.3 males.

The median income for a household in the city is $ 21,045 , and the median income for a family is $ 22,314. Males had a median income of $ 22,862 versus $ 18,594 for females. The per capita income was $ 9,549. 32.6 percent of families and 35.8 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Places in the county

Individual evidence

^ Extract from the National Register of Historic Places . Retrieved March 13, 2011
↑ Hudspeth 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 dated April 2, 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. 142.

↑ Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed November 5, 2019.
Weekly List on the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed November 5, 2019.

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

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