Montgomery County, Arkansas

administration
Montgomery County Courthouse in Mount Ida
US state :	Arkansas
Administrative headquarters :	Mount Ida
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse P.O. Box 377 Mount Ida, AR 71957-0377
Foundation :	December 9, 1842
Made up from:	Hot Spring County
Area code :	001 870
Demographics
Residents :	9487 (2010)
Population density :	5.3 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1849 km²
Water surface :	50 km²
map

The Montgomery County is a county in the US state of Arkansas . The county seat is Mount Ida . 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 western Arkansas, about 60 km to the west from Oklahoma and has an area of 2,073 square kilometers, of which 50 square kilometers are water. It borders on the following counties:

Scott County	Yell County
Polk County		Garland County
	Pike County	Hot Spring County , Clark County

history

Richard Montgomery

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1850	1958	-
1860	3633	85.5%
1870	2984	-17.9%
1880	5729	92%
1890	7923	38.3%
1900	9444	19.2%
1910	12,455	31.9%
1920	11,112	-10.8%
1930	10,768	-3.1%
1940	8876	-17.6%
1950	6680	-24.7%
1960	5370	-19.6%
1970	5821	8.4%
1980	7771	33.5%
1990	7841	0.9%
2000	9245	17.9%
2010	9487	2.6%
1850-1890 1900-1990 2000 2010 Montgomery County's age pyramid (as of 2000)

Montgomery County was formed on December 9, 1842 from parts of Hot Spring County. It was named after Richard Montgomery (1738–1775), a general in the American War of Independence .

Montgomery was the county seat from 1842 to 1850. In July 1850 the name was changed to Salem and in October of the same year to Mount Ida , after the post office of the same name. The final county boundaries were not established until 1925.

Around 1900, many miners and mining companies lost their money looking for gold, silver and copper. In 1904, a quartz mine was discovered in Fisher Mountain , which was later expanded because it was the right quartz for the oscillators in radio communications during World War II.

During the Great Depression (1929–1941), many families left this area in search of work.

Demographic data

As of the 2010 census , there were 9,487 people in 3,596 households in Montgomery County. The population density was 5.3 people per square kilometer.

The racial the population was composed of 94.4 percent white, 0.2 percent African American, 0.8 percent Native American, 0.5 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 2.0 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 3.8 percent of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Statistically, 2.52 people lived in each of the 3,596 households.

21.2 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 57.3 percent were between 18 and 64 and 21.5 percent were 65 years or older. 50.9 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 32,238 USD . The per capita income was $ 20,054. 20.5 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.