Huntsville, Texas
| Huntsville | |
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| Nickname : Huntsvegas | |
 Welcome sign - Home of Sam Houston |
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| Location of Huntsville, Texas | |
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| Basic data | |
| Foundation : | 1836 |
| State : | United States |
| State : | Texas |
| County : | Walker County |
| Coordinates : | 30 ° 43 ′ N , 95 ° 33 ′ W |
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) |
| Residents : | 38,548 (as of 2010) |
| Population density : | 481.9 inhabitants per km 2 |
| Area : | 80.9 km 2 (approx. 31 mi 2 ) of which 80.0 km 2 (approx. 31 mi 2 ) are land |
| Height : | 113 m |
| Postcodes : | 77320, 77340-77344, 77348-77349 |
| Area code : | +1 936 |
| FIPS : | 48-35528 |
| GNIS ID : | 1382049 |
| Website : | www.huntsvilletx.gov |
Huntsville is the capital of Walker County in the east of the US state Texas .
Sam Houston , the first President of the Republic of Texas and later Governor of Texas, spent his old age in Huntsville and died there. Two houses he lives in, his grave, a museum and a 20 m high monumental statue from 1994 directly on the Interstate 45 ( Dallas - Houston ) commemorate Houston .
Huntsville is home to Sam Houston State University .
Huntsville became internationally known as the place where the state of Texas carries out executions . The condemned men are after a few successful attempts to escape from prison Ellis Unit not staying longer in Huntsville since 1999, but are from the prisons Polunsky Unit in Livingston (men) and Mountain View Unit in Gatesville (women) just before the scheduled execution to Huntsville transported.
The Texas Prison Museum , opened in 1989, is dedicated to the history of the Texas prison system. Among other things, an electric chair is shown there.
| growth of population | |||
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| Census | Residents | ± in% | |
| 1850 | 892 | - | |
| 1870 | 1600 | - | |
| 1880 | 2536 | 58.5% | |
| 1890 | 1509 | -40.5% | |
| 1900 | 2485 | 64.7% | |
| 1910 | 2072 | -16.6% | |
| 1920 | 4689 | 126.3% | |
| 1930 | 5028 | 7.2% | |
| 1940 | 5108 | 1.6% | |
| 1950 | 9820 | 92.2% | |
| 1960 | 11,999 | 22.2% | |
| 1970 | 17,610 | 46.8% | |
| 1980 | 23,936 | 35.9% | |
| 1990 | 27,925 | 16.7% | |
| 2000 | 35,078 | 25.6% | |
| 2010 | 38,548 | 9.9% | |
| 1850-2000, 2010 | |||
sons and daughters of the town
- Thomas Henry Ball (1859–1944), politician, member of the House of Representatives
- Robert A. Lovett (1895–1986), politician, US Secretary of Defense
- Sonny Lee (1904-1975), jazz trombonist
- Steve Forrest (1924-2013), film actor
- Erin Cummings (born 1977), actress
See also
Huntsville Unit State Prison
CA Holliday Unit State Prison
Sam Houston's grave
Monumental statue of Sam Houston
Web links
- Huntsville in the Handbook of Texas (English)
- Statistics Huntsville (Texas) (English)
- Discover Huntsville (English)
- Texas Prison Museum (English)
- Article about Dan Phillips in the Frankfurter Rundschau (March 24, 2011)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Texas Almanac (PDF; 1.2 MB). Retrieved October 4, 2012
- ^ US Census ( Memento October 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved October 16, 2012