Mills County, Texas

administration
The Mills County Courthouse in Goldthwaite, listed on the NRHP as No. 00001359
US state :	Texas
Administrative headquarters :	Goldthwaite
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Mills County Courthouse P.O. Box 646 Goldthwaite, TX 76844-0646
Foundation :	1887
Made up from:	Comanche County Hamilton County Lampasas County Brown County
Area code :	001 325
Demographics
Residents :	4936 (2010)
Population density :	2.5 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1942 km²
Water surface :	5 km²
map

Website : www.co.mills.tx.us

The Mills County is a county in the state of Texas of the United States . The county seat is in Goldthwaite .

geography

The county is located approximately 60 km northeast of the geographic center of Texas and covers an area of 1942 square kilometers, of which 5 square kilometers are water. It is bordered in a clockwise direction by the following counties: Comanche County , Hamilton County , Lampasas County , San Saba County, and Brown County .

history

Mills County was formed on March 15, 1887 from parts of Brown County, Comanche County, Hamilton County and Lampasas County. The administrative organization was completed on September 12 of the same year. It was named after John T. Mills (1817-1871), who opened a law practice in the Republic of Texas in 1837 and was a district judge from 1839 to 1846.

Mills County Jailhouse (2014)

Three structures in the county are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) as of March 19, 2020, the Mills County Courthouse , the Mills County Jailhouse, and the Regency Suspension Bridge .

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1890	5493	-
1900	7851	42.9%
1910	9694	23.5%
1920	9019	-7%
1930	8293	-8th %
1940	7951	-4.1%
1950	5999	-24.6%
1960	4467	-25.5%
1970	4212	-5.7%
1980	4477	6.3%
1990	4531	1.2%
2000	5151	13.7%
2010	4936	-4.2%
1890-2010 Mills County's age pyramid (as of 2000)

According to the 2000 census , Mills County had 5,151 people in 2,001 households and 1,398 families. The population density was 3 people per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 89.24 percent white, 1.26 percent African American, 0.27 percent Native American, 0.08 percent Asian, 0.08 percent of residents from the Pacific island area and 7.73 percent from other ethnic groups Groups; 1.34 percent were descended from two or more races. 13.03 percent of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Of the 2,001 households, 27.5 percent had children or young people living with them. 60.2 percent were married couples living together, 7.0 percent were single mothers and 30.1 percent were non-families. 27.8 percent were single households and 17.1 percent had people aged 65 years or over. The average household size was 2.43 and the average family size was 2.90 people.

25.5 percent of the population was under 18 years old, 4.7 percent between 18 and 24, 20.5 percent between 25 and 44, 26.1 percent between 45 and 64 and 23.1 percent were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 44 years. For every 100 females there were 102.4 males and for every 100 females age 18 or over there were 98.2 males.

The median income for a household in the county is $ 30,579 , and the median income for a family is $ 37,519. Males had a median income of $ 25,933 versus $ 20,076 for females. The per capita income was $ 15,915. 12.7 percent of families and 18.4 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

cities and communes

Individual evidence

^ Extract from the National Register of Historic Places . Retrieved January 13, 2019
↑ Mills 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 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. 207.

↑ Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed March 19, 2020.
Weekly List on the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed March 19, 2020.

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

↑ Mills County, Texas , 2000 census data sheet at factfinder.census.gov .