Potter County, Texas

administration
Potter County Courthouse and Library , listed on the NRHP with number 96000938
US state :	Texas
Administrative headquarters :	Amarillo
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Potter County Courthouse P.O. Box 9638 Amarillo, TX 79105
Foundation :	1876
Made up from:	Bexar County
Area code :	001 806
Demographics
Residents :	121,073 (2010)
Population density :	51.4 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	2388 km²
Water surface :	33 km²
map

Website : www.co.potter.tx.us

The Potter County is a county in the US state of Texas of the United States . The county seat is in Amarillo .

geography

The county is located in northwest Texas, in the Texas Panhandle , about 50 km to the west from New Mexico and about 60 km to the north from Oklahoma . It has an area of 2388 square kilometers, of which 33 square kilometers is water surface in the form of the Canadian River and the southern part of the Lake Meredith reservoir . The county is bordered clockwise by the following counties: Moore County , Carson County , Randall County, and Oldham County .

Lake Meredith is designated as a Lake Meredith National Recreation Area and is managed by the National Park Service . At the edge of the area is the Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument , a small protected area of the type of a national monument . It preserves sites of flint found by Indians and their predecessor cultures between 11,000 BC. BC and around 1870 to make tools and weapons from the material.

history

Potter County was formed in 1876 from parts of Bexar County . It was named after Robert Potter , a Secretary of the Navy for the Republic of Texas and a signatory of the Texas Declaration of Independence.

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1880	28	-
1890	849	2,932.1%
1900	1820	114.4%
1910	12,424	582.6%
1920	16,710	34.5%
1930	46,080	175.8%
1940	54,265	17.8%
1950	73,366	35.2%
1960	115,580	57.5%
1970	90,511	-21.7%
1980	98,637	9%
1990	97,874	-0.8%
2000	113,546	16%
2010	121,073	6.6%
1880-2010 Potter County's age pyramid (as of 2000)

The McBride Ranch House , listed on the NRHP with the number 75000152

The Cadillac Ranch

According to the 2000 census , Potter County had 113,546 people in 40,760 households and 27,472 families. The population density was 48 inhabitants per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 68.60 percent white, 9.96 percent African American, 0.87 percent Native American, 2.49 percent Asian, 0.04 percent of residents from the Pacific island area and 15.44 percent from other ethnic groups Groups; 2.60 percent were descended from two or more races. 28.11 percent of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Of the 40,760 households, 34.7 percent had children or young people living with them. 47.4 percent were married couples living together, 15.0 percent were single mothers, and 32.6 percent were non-families. 27.6 percent were single households and 10.1 percent had people aged 65 years or over. The average household size was 2.61 and the average family size was 3.21 people.

28.0 percent of the population was under 18 years old, 11.1 percent between 18 and 24, 30.1 percent between 25 and 44, 19.1 percent between 45 and 64 and 11.7 percent were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 32 years. For every 100 females there were 100.9 males and for every 100 females age 18 or over there were 100.2 males.

The median income for a household in the county is $ 29,492 , and the median income for a family is $ 35,321. Males had a median income of $ 26,123 versus $ 20,275 for females. The per capita income was $ 14,947. 15.2 percent of families and 19.2 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.