Jeff Davis County, Texas

administration
The Jeff Davis County Courthouse in Fort Davis, listed on the NRHP as # 02000728
US state :	Texas
Administrative headquarters :	Fort Davis
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Jeff Davis County Courthouse P.O. Box 398 Fort Davis, TX 79734-0398
Foundation :	1887
Made up from:	Presidio County
Area code :	001 432
Demographics
Residents :	2342 (2010)
Population density :	0.4 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	5865 km²
Water surface :	0 km²
map

Website : www.co.jeff-davis.tx.us

The Jeff Davis County is a county in the state of Texas of the United States . The county seat is in Fort Davis .

geography

The county is located in western Texas and borders Mexico on the western tip . It has an area of 5865 square kilometers, without any significant water surface. It is bordered clockwise by the following counties: Reeves County , Pecos County , Brewster County , Presidio County, and Culberson County .

history

Jeff Davis County was formed on March 15, 1887 from parts of Presidio County. It was named after Jefferson Davis , the only President of the Confederate States of America .

Fort Davis National Historic Site (2013)

Five buildings and sites in the county are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) as of November 24, 2019, with the Fort Davis National Historic Site being a National Historic Landmark .

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1890	1394	-
1900	1150	-17.5%
1910	1678	45.9%
1920	1445	-13.9%
1930	1800	24.6%
1940	2375	31.9%
1950	2090	-12%
1960	1582	-24.3%
1970	1527	-3.5%
1980	1647	7.9%
1990	1946	18.2%
2000	2207	13.4%
2010	2342	6.1%
1890-2010 Jeff Davis County's age pyramid (as of 2000)

The McDonald Observatory

According to the 2000 census , Jeff Davis County had 2,207 people in 896 households and 632 families. The population density was 0.4 inhabitants per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 90.5 percent white, 0.9 percent African American, 0.3 percent Native American, 0.1 percent Asian and 5.2 percent from other ethnic groups; 3.0 percent were descended from two or more races. 35.5 percent of the population were of Hispanic or Latino American descent.

Of the 896 households, 27.3 percent had children or young people living with them. 60.8 percent were married couples living together, 6.9 percent were single mothers, and 29.4 percent were non-families. 26.3 percent were single households and 10.3 percent had people aged 65 or over. The average household size was 2.39 and the average family size was 2.88 people.

24.4 percent of the population was under 18 years old, 5.3 percent between 18 and 24, 24.1 percent between 25 and 44, 30.0 percent between 45 and 64, and 16.3 percent were 65 years of age or older . The median age was 42 years. For every 100 females there were 104.5 males and for every 100 adult women aged 18 and over there were 104.4 males.

The median income for a household in the city is $ 32,212 , and the median income for a family is $ 39,083. Males had a median income of $ 27,011 versus $ 21,384 for females. The per capita income was $ 18,846. 14.1 percent of families and 15.0 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Places in Jeff Davis County

Town

Valentine

Census-designated places (CDP)

Fort Davis

Unincorporated Communities

Ghost towns

Individual evidence

^ Extract from the National Register of Historic Places . Retrieved March 13, 2011
↑ Jeff Davis 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 , pp. 151f.

↑ Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed November 24, 2019.
Weekly List on the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed November 24, 2019.
Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: Texas. National Park Service , accessed November 24, 2019.

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

↑ Jeff Davis County, Texas , 2000 census datasheet at factfinder.census.gov .