Krum (Texas)
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 Location of Krum in Texas
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| Foundation : | 1886 |
| State : | United States |
| State : | Texas |
| County : | Denton County |
| Coordinates : | 33 ° 16 ′ N , 97 ° 14 ′ W |
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) |
| Residents : | 4,988 (as of: 2018) |
| Population density : | 978 inhabitants per km 2 |
| Area : | 5.1 km 2 (approx. 2 mi 2 ) of which 5.1 km 2 (approx. 2 mi 2 ) is land |
| Height : | 225 m |
| Postal code : | 76249 |
| Area code : | +1 940 |
| FIPS : | 48-39928 |
| GNIS ID : | 1360773 |
| Website : | www.ci.krum.tx.us |
| Mayor : | Ronald G. Harris Jr. |
Krum is a city in Denton County in the US state of Texas in the United States .
geography
The city is located in northeast Texas, 12 km northwest of Denton , on 1173 Fram Road, 67 km north of the Oklahoma border and has a total area of 5.1 km² with no significant water surface.
history
Krum is located on 1173 Farm Road, 7 miles (11 km) northwest of Denton in Denton County.
The Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway built a railway line through western Denton County in 1884. In the fall of 1886, Mr. LL Finley sold 200 acres south of his farm to the railroad company, which set up a business there. Shops were opened. The railway company named the place after its vice president, AR Krum.
Mr. Finley opened a general store on what is now the Harpool Seed Company. The railway company used a freight car as a magazine. In 1887 the warehouse building was completed. The railway company built the first house in Krum as the residence of their representative. It was east of the railway line and is now known as the Knight's Bee and Chicken Farm. The post office opened in 1888 and was first in Finley's shop. Mr. Finley took care of the mail. In 1888 RR Turner opened a locksmith's shop south of Hauptstrasse. Amos Rowley ran a saloon north of it. RC Scripture sold hardware, harness, robes, and other goods in a large store where the bank is now.
In 1891, Dr. WG Kimbrough ran a drugstore and practiced as a doctor. Arthur Jackson opened a timber trade that existed until a few years ago. The office was south of the main street. John Boyd opened a barber shop east of it.
The single room schoolhouse was moved from North Hickory Creek to where the high school now stands in 1891. The Methodist church used it as a meeting place. A literary and debating society was founded and met at school. All the young people in the area participated. In 1891 the second house was also built in Krum for a bachelor named WH Henshel.
In 1894, Reuben ("Pony") McGee opened a feed and hardware store on the south side of the commercial street, west of the timber trade. He built the third house in Krum for his family. McGee provided a water point for farm animals at a well behind his shop.
The sons of Dr. WH Kimbrough, Walter, and Wallace graduated from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, with medical degrees and began ordaining in their father's practice in Krum.
Telephone and telegraph came in 1899. The Baptist Church had moved its church from North Hickory Creek to town. The Mormons built their home that same year. More business opened. June Benton ran a horse rental business in what is now the Muncy Building as far as Washateria. Frank Shifflett and Brent Jackson owned a fleet north of the horse rental. There was a cotton mill, a restaurant and a dry freight company.
WT Ginn built a hotel in the early 1890s. Later owners were the Butterworths, the Chitwoods and finally the Raymond Ericson couple. The sprawling old building was recently demolished and the property sold.
In 1898, SD Chadwell built a good hotel on three lots, which is now a brick building from 1976 that houses the Kountry Store, Krum Korral and Fowler Hardware. The hotel was a one-story wooden building surrounded by a white picket fence. At the rear were stables, a cowshed, a coal store, and other outbuildings. The floors in the hotel were covered by an elegant dark red carpet that the whole city was talking about. There were rooms for representatives to sell their wares. Dealers traveled miles to shop there. Unfortunately the hotel was destroyed in a fire and not rebuilt.
In 1892 Krum had 75 inhabitants. The place flourished around 1900 and had numerous shops, four churches and a school. Also around 1900, the railroad loaded more than half a million bushels of grain, which led to the saying that Krum was "the largest domestic grain market in the world".
Krum's growth and prosperity grew until 1925. The population had grown to 750. The place's decline began when cars and trucks began delivering goods to larger markets and young people moved away to attend university or find work. The population fell below 300 during the economic crisis and remained low during the post-WWII period. Up until the 1970s, between 300 and 400 people lived in Krum. Then the growing Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area brought larger numbers of newcomers.
The connection of Krum to Interstate Highway 35 made it easy to commute into town. The population increased in 1978 to 605, 1982 to 917 and 1990 to 1542. In 2000 Krum had 1979 inhabitants.
Demographic data
According to the 2000 census, 1,979 people lived here in 681 households and 561 families. The population density was 389.8 inhabitants per km ². The racial the population was composed of 93.43% White, 0.25% African American, 0.40% Native American, 0.51% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, and 2.63% other ethnic groups. About 2.73% were mixed race and 4.95% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
Of the 681 households, 46.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them. 70.3% of them were married couples living together. 9.8% were single mothers and 17.5% were non-families. 14.4% of all households were single households and there were people living in 5.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.90 and the average family size was 3.19.
30.2% of the population were under 18 years old, 8.2% 18 to 24, 35.1% 25 to 44, 19.9% 45 to 64, and 6.6% who were 65 years of age or older . The median age was 33 years. For every 100 females of all age groups, there were 90.5 males. For every 100 women aged 18 and over there were 89.4 men.
The median income for a household in the county is $ 52,778 , and the median income for a family is $ 57,650. Males had a median income of $ 40,278 versus $ 28,527 for females. The per capita income was $ 21,642. 2.1% of the population and 1.6% of families are below the poverty line. Of these, 0.7% were children and adolescents under 18 years of age and 6.0% were 65 or older.
See also
Web links
- Handbook of Texas (English)
- Current statistics on Krum (Tx )