Oldham County, Texas

administration
Oldham County Courthouse
US state :	Texas
Administrative headquarters :	Vega
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Oldham County Courthouse P.O. Box 360 Vega, TX 79092
Foundation :	1876
Made up from:	Bexar County
Area code :	001 806
Demographics
Residents :	2052 (2010)
Population density :	0.5 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	3889 km²
Water surface :	2 km²
map

Website : www.co.oldham.tx.us/ips/cms

The Oldham County is a county in the state of Texas of the United States . The county seat is in Vega .

geography

The county is located in northwest Texas, in the Texas Panhandle , borders New Mexico to the west and is approximately 80 km from Oklahoma to the north . It has an area of 3889 square kilometers, of which 2 square kilometers are water. It is bordered clockwise by the following counties: Hartley County , Potter County , Deaf Smith County, and Quay County in New Mexico.

history

Oldham County was formed on August 21, 1876 from parts of Bexar County . The administrative organization was completed on June 12, 1881. It was named after the politician and lawyer Williamson Simpson Oldham . He was first a member of the Arkansas State Legislature and a judge on the state's Supreme Court before moving to Texas in 1849. During the Civil War he was a member of the Senate of the Confederate States of America .

12 structures and sites in the county are on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) as of March 27, 2020, with the archaeological site Landergin Mesa has the status of a National Historic Landmark .

Demographic data

Population development
Census	Residents	± in%
1880	287	-
1890	270	-5.9%
1900	349	29.3%
1910	812	132.7%
1920	709	-12.7%
1930	1404	98%
1940	1385	-1.4%
1950	1672	20.7%
1960	1928	15.3%
1970	2258	17.1%
1980	2283	1.1%
1990	2278	-0.2%
2000	2185	-4.1%
2010	2052	-6.1%
1880-2010 Oldham County's age pyramid (as of 2000)

Wind turbines

According to the 2000 census , Oldham County had 2,185 people in 735 households and 565 families. The population density was 1 person per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 90.66 percent white, 1.88 percent African American, 1.28 percent Native American, 0.37 percent Asian and 4.62 percent from other ethnic groups; 1.19 percent were descended from two or more races. 11.03 percent of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Of the 735 households, 35.1 percent had children or young people living with them. 66.7 percent were married couples living together, 8.8 percent were single mothers and 23.0 percent were non-families. 21.0 percent were single households and 10.1 percent had people aged 65 or over. The average household size was 2.61 and the average family size was 3.02 people.

35.0 percent of the population was under 18 years old, 7.2 percent between 18 and 24, 23.3 percent between 25 and 44, 23.2 percent between 45 and 64 and 11.3 percent were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 33 years. For every 100 females there were 108.1 males and for every 100 females aged 18 or over there were 90.6 males.

The median income for a household in the 33,713 US dollars , and the median income for a family was 39,091 USD. Males had a median income of $ 26,845 versus $ 20,185 for females. The per capita income was $ 14,806. 10.5 percent of families and 19.8 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

cities and communes

Individual evidence

↑ Oldham 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. 228.

↑ 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.
Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: Texas. National Park Service , accessed March 27, 2020.

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

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