Kendall County, Texas

The Kendall County Courthouse in Boerne, listed on the NRHP with the number 80004138
administration
US state :	Texas
Administrative headquarters :	Boerne
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Kendall County Courthouse 204 E. San Antonio Street Boerne, TX 78006-2050
Foundation :	1862
Made up from:	Blanco County Kerr County
Area code :	001 830
Demographics
Residents :	33,410  (2010)
Population density :	19.5 inhabitants / km 2
geography
Total area :	1717 km²
Water surface :	2 km²
map
Website : www.co.kendall.tx.us

The Kendall County is a county in the state of Texas of the United States . The county seat is in Boerne .

geography

The county is located about 80 km southeast of the geographic center of Texas and has an area of ​​1717 square kilometers, of which two square kilometers are water. It is bordered in a clockwise direction by the following counties: Gillespie County , Blanco County , Comal County , Bexar County , Bandera County, and Kerr Counties .

history

8000 BC Indians such as Kiowa , Comanche and Lipan Apaches first appear in the area. Between 1519 and 1685, Hernando Cortez and Alonso Álvarez de Pineda of Spain claimed Texas.

Kendall County was formed on January 10, 1862 from parts of Blanco County and Kerr County. It was named after George Wilkins Kendall (1809-1867), a co-founder of the Picayune newspaper , from which The Times-Picayune later emerged. He served as a captain in the Texas Santa Fe expedition and was then imprisoned in Mexico for two years. In 1851 he published a book on the Mexican-American War .

Eleven structures and sites in the county are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) as of December 30, 2019.

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents		± in%
1870	1536		-
1880	2763		79.9%
1890	3826		38.5%
1900	4103		7.2%
1910	4517		10.1%
1920	4779		5.8%
1930	4970		4%
1940	5080		2.2%
1950	5423		6.8%
1960	5889		8.6%
1970	6964		18.3%
1980	10,635		52.7%
1990	14,589		37.2%
2000	23,743		62.7%
2010	33,410		40.7%
1850-2010 Kendall County's age pyramid (as of 2000)

Guadalupe River State Park

The Cibolo Creek

Kendall County's population was 23,743 as of the 2000 census . Of these, 479 people lived in collective accommodation, the other residents lived in 8,613 households and 6,692 families. The population density was 14 inhabitants per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 92.86 percent white, 0.35 percent African American, 0.56 percent Native American, 0.23 percent Asian, 0.05 percent of residents from the Pacific island area and 4.41 percent from other ethnic groups Groups; 1.55 percent were from two or more races. 17.89 percent of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Of the 8,613 households, 36.3 percent had children or young people living with them. 67.2 percent were married couples living together, 7.9 percent were single mothers, and 22.3 percent were non-families. 19.2 percent were single households and 8.4 percent had people aged 65 or over. The average household size was 2.70 and the average family size was 3.09 people.

27.2 percent of the population was under 18 years old, 6.1 percent between 18 and 24, 26.4 percent between 25 and 44, 26.4 percent between 45 and 64 and 13.9 percent were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females there were 95 males and for every 100 females age 18 or over there were 91.4 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $ 49,521 , and the median income for a family was $ 58,081. Males had a median income of $ 39,697 versus $ 28,807 for females. The per capita income was $ 24,619. 7.9 percent of families and 10.5 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

cities and communes

Bergheim Boerne Comfort Fair Oaks Ranch

Kendalia Sisterdale Waring

See also

• Nueces River massacre, 1862
• List of Entries on the National Register of Historic Places in Kendall County, Texas

Web links

Commons : Kendall County, Texas  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

• Handbook of Texas (Engl.)
• "Kendall County profiles" of the Texas Association of Counties (Engl.)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Extract from the National Register of Historic Places . Retrieved March 13, 2011
2. ^ Kendall County in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System . Retrieved February 22, 2011
3. ↑ 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 
4. ↑ 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. 160.
5. ↑ Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed December 30, 2019.
   Weekly List on the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed December 30, 2019.
6. ↑ Texas Almanac: Population History of Countys from 1850–2010 (PDF; 698 kB), accessed September 18, 2012
7. ^ Kendall County, Texas , 2000 census datasheet at factfinder.census.gov . (English)

Coordinates: 29 ° 57 ′  N , 98 ° 42 ′  W