Navarro County

administration
The Navarro County Courthouse in Corsicana, listed on the NRHP with number 04000947
US state :	Texas
Administrative headquarters :	Corsicana
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Navarro County Courthouse P.O. Box 423 Corsicana, TX 75151
Foundation :	1846
Made up from:	Robertson County
Area code :	001 903
Demographics
Residents :	47,735 (2010)
Population density :	18.3 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	2813 km²
Water surface :	203 km²
map

Website : www.co.navarro.tx.us

The Navarro County is a county in the US state of Texas of the United States . The county seat is in Corsicana .

geography

The county is located in northeast Texas and has an area of 2,813 square kilometers, of which 203 square kilometers are water. It is bordered clockwise by the following counties: Henderson County , Freestone County , Limestone County , Hill County, and Ellis County .

history

Navarro County was formed on April 25, 1846 from parts of Robertson County . The administrative organization was completed on July 13, 1846. It was named after José Antonio Navarro (1795–1871), a signatory of the Texas Declaration of Independence and a member of the State Legislature of the Republic of Texas . He was the only Hispanic at the Texas Constitutional Convention of 1845 . He advocated both the annexation of Texas by the United States and the subsequent secession of that state in 1861 . The first county seat of Navarro County was Chambers Creek .

Six structures and sites in the county are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) as of March 27, 2020, including the Corsicana Commercial Historic District , the Navarro County Courthouse, and the Temple Beth-El Synagogue .

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1850	2190	-
1860	5996	173.8%
1870	8879	48.1%
1880	21,702	144.4%
1890	26,373	21.5%
1900	43,374	64.5%
1910	47,070	8.5%
1920	50,624	7.6%
1930	60.507	19.5%
1940	51,308	-15.2%
1950	39,916	-22.2%
1960	34,423	-13.8%
1970	31,150	-9.5%
1980	35,323	13.4%
1990	39,926	13%
2000	45.124	13%
2010	47,735	5.8%
1850-2010 Age pyramid of Navarro County (as of 2000)

The Navarro Mills Lake with the Navarro Mills Lake Dam

Temple Beth-El , listed in the NRHP with the number 86003687

As of the 2000 census , Navarro County had 45,124 people in 16,491 households and 11,906 families. The population density was 17 people per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 70.84 percent white, 16.79 percent African American, 0.46 percent Native American, 0.47 percent Asian, 0.33 percent of residents from the Pacific island area and 9.45 percent from other ethnic groups Groups; 1.65 percent were descended from two or more races. 15.76 percent of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Of the 16,491 households, 34.0 percent had children or young people living with them. 55.7 percent were married couples living together, 12.2 percent were single mothers and 27.8 percent were non-families. 24.1 percent were single households and 12.0 percent had people aged 65 or over. The average household size was 2.65 and the average family size was 3.14 people.

27.2 percent of the population was under 18 years old, 9.9 percent between 18 and 24, 26.9 percent between 25 and 44, 21.5 percent between 45 and 64 and 14.4 percent were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females there were 97 males and for every 100 females age 18 or over there were 92.7 males.

The median income for a household in the 31,268 US dollars , and the median income for a family was 38,130 USD. Males had a median income of $ 30,112 versus $ 20,972 for females. The per capita income was $ 15,266. 13.9 percent of families and 18.2 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

places

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Extract from the National Register of Historic Places . Retrieved March 13, 2011
↑ Navarro 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 January 24, 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. 220.

↑ Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed March 27, 2020.
Weekly List on the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed March 27, 2020.

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

^ Nacogdoches County, Texas , 2000 census datasheet at factfinder.census.gov .