Lynn County

administration
The Lynn County Courthouse in Tahoka, listed on the NRHP with number 82004513
US state :	Texas
Administrative headquarters :	Tahoka
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Lynn County Courthouse P.O. Box 937 Tahoka, TX 79373-0937
Foundation :	1876
Made up from:	Garza County
Area code :	001 806
Demographics
Residents :	5915 (2010)
Population density :	2.6 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	2314 km²
Water surface :	4 km²
map

Website : www.co.lynn.tx.us

The Lynn County is a county in the state of Texas of the United States . The county seat is in Tahoka . The county is part of the dry counties , which means that the sale of alcohol is restricted or prohibited.

geography

The county is located in northwest Texas, about 80 km east of the New Mexico border and has an area of 2,314 square kilometers, of which 4 square kilometers are water. It is bordered clockwise by the following counties: Lubbock County , Garza County , Borden County , Dawson County, and Terry County .

history

Originally the area was settled by Apaches , who were driven out by the Comanches in the 18th century . In 1873 and 1874, the Comanches suffered their first defeat against the US Army, which gradually drove the Indians out of the area. Lynn County was formed from parts of Garza County on August 21, 1876 and the administrative organization was completed in 1903. It was named after William Lynn (? –1836), a Texan Revolution soldier who fell at the Battle of the Alamo . After buffalo hunters began to hunt on a large scale in 1877, there was another confrontation with the Comanches, who, however, were expelled from the region by the US Army in early 1877. Although the land was released for settlement from 1877, the population remained low. In the early 1880s, the first ranchers settled in the area, mostly in the outskirts of the county. The first ranch in the county was established in 1884, and others followed, but they were mostly small family businesses. The county's population rose from nine in 1880 to 24 in 1890. In 1900 the population had dropped to 19. The county was founded in 1876, but it remained disorganized until 1903. After 1900, farmers poured into the county who drove ranchers out of parts of the country, so the number of farms rose from 5 to 201 between 1900 and 1910 and the population grew from 17 in 1900 to 1713 in 1910.

The increase in population was primarily due to the cultivation of cotton . When more acreage became available for sale in 1912, a large number of people of German origin from Central Texas settled in the county, and a steady immigration of Germans began that lasted into the 1950s. The decline in the price of cotton that began around 1930 hit the smaller farms in particular, and the number of cotton farms fell from 2,138 in 1930 to 1,471 in 1940. After the Second World War, the county's agricultural structure became more diversified, with wheat growing alongside cotton and livestock farming .

When oil was found in the eastern part of the county in the early 1950s, the economic structure of the county changed fundamentally. Due to the 1973 oil crisis, additional oil fields were opened up. Annual oil production in the county reached 800,000 barrels in the mid-1980s .

One structure in the county is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) as of March 17, 2020, the Lynn County Courthouse .

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1880	9	-
1890	24	166.7%
1900	17th	-29.2%
1910	1713	9,976.5%
1920	4751	177.3%
1930	12,372	160.4%
1940	11,931	-3.6%
1950	11,030	-7.6%
1960	10,914	-1.1%
1970	9107	-16.6%
1980	8605	-5.5%
1990	6758	-21.5%
2000	6550	-3.1%
2010	5915	-9.7%
1880-2010 Lynn County's age pyramid (as of 2000)

O'Donnell Texas Museum

The Grassland Cemetery

As of the 2000 census , Lynn County had 6,550 people in 2,354 households and 1,777 families. The population density was 3 people per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 75.53 percent white, 2.84 percent African American, 1.02 percent Native American, 0.15 percent Asian and 18.24 percent from other ethnic groups; 2.21 percent were descended from two or more races. 44.63 percent of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Of the 2,354 households, 38.9 percent had children or young people living with them. 61.0 percent were married couples living together, 11.1 percent were single mothers and 24.5 percent were non-families. 23.1 percent were single households and 12.1 percent had people aged 65 or over. The average household size was 2.76 and the average family size was 3.25 people.

31.2 percent of the population was under 18 years old, 7.8 percent between 18 and 24, 26.0 percent between 25 and 44, 21.0 percent between 45 and 64 and 14.0 percent were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females there were 99.6 males and for every 100 females age 18 or over there were 93.8 males.

The median income for a household in the county is $ 26,694 , and the median income for a family is $ 33,146. Males had a median income of $ 27,972 versus $ 19,531 for females. The per capita income was $ 14,090. 19.3 percent of families and 22.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Places in the county

Individual evidence

^ Extract from the National Register of Historic Places . Retrieved March 13, 2011
↑ Lynn 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 , p. 187.

↑ Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed March 17, 2020.
Weekly List on the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed March 17, 2020.

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

↑ Lynn County, Texas , 2000 census datasheet at factfinder.census.gov .