Hutchinson County, Texas

administration
Hutchinson County Courthouse
US state :	Texas
Administrative headquarters :	Stinnett
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Hutchinson County Courthouse P.O. Box 1186 Stinnett, TX 79083-0526
Foundation :	1876
Made up from:	Bexar County
Area code :	001 806
Demographics
Residents :	22,150 (2010)
Population density :	9.6 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	2318 km²
Water surface :	20 km²
map

Website : www.co.hutchinson.tx.us

The Hutchinson County is a county in the state of Texas of the United States . The county seat is in Stinnett .

geography

The county is located in northern Texas, in the Texas Panhandle , and is about 25 miles from the Oklahoma border. It has an area of 2318 square kilometers, of which 20 square kilometers are water. It is bordered in a clockwise direction by the following counties: Hansford County , Roberts County , Carson County, and Moore Counties .

history

Hutchinson County was formed August 21, 1876 from parts of Bexar County. The administrative organization was completed on May 13, 1901. It was named after Anderson Hutchinson (1798-1853), a Mississippi lawyer and writer who was a district judge in the Republic of Texas in 1841 . The following year he was arrested by the Mexican Army while he was trial in San Antonio . In 1843 he was released and returned to Mississippi.

Information board at the Adobe Walls (2014)

Three structures and sites in the county are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) as of November 9, 2019, including the Hutchinson County Courthouse and Adobe Walls .

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1880	50	-
1890	58	16%
1900	303	422.4%
1910	892	194.4%
1920	721	-19.2%
1930	14,848	1,959.4%
1940	19,069	28.4%
1950	31,580	65.6%
1960	34,419	9%
1970	24,443	-29%
1980	26,304	7.6%
1990	25,689	-2.3%
2000	23,857	-7.1%
2010	22,150	-7.2%
1880-2010 Hutchinson County's age pyramid (as of 2000)

Freedom is never free , veterans memorial

According to the 2000 census , Hutchinson County had 23,857 people in 9,283 households and 6,869 families. The population density was 10 people per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 87.00 percent white, 2.41 percent African American, 1.35 percent Native American, 0.35 percent Asian, 0.02 percent of residents from the Pacific island area and 6.66 percent from other ethnic groups ; 2.21 percent were descended from two or more races. 14.70 percent of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Of the 9,283 households, 34.8 percent had children or young people living with them. 61.4 percent were married couples living together, 9.1 percent were single mothers, and 26.0 percent were non-families. 23.9 percent were single households and 11.9 percent had people aged 65 years or over. The average household size was 2.54 and the average family size was 3.00 people.

27.4 percent of the population was under 18 years old, 8.7 percent between 18 and 24, 25.5 percent between 25 and 44, 22.7 percent between 45 and 64 and 15.6 percent were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females there were 97 males and for every 100 females age 18 or over there were 93.6 males.

The median income for a household in the city is $ 36,588 , and the median income for a family is $ 42,500. Males had a median income of $ 40,029 versus $ 19,952 for females. The per capita income was $ 17,317. 8.8 percent of families and 11.1 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

places

Individual evidence

^ Hutchinson County in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey . 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. 144.

↑ Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed November 9, 2019.
Weekly List on the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed November 9, 2019.

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

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