Cass County (Texas)
The Cass County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. The seat of the county government ( County Seat) is located in Linden.
Geography
The County is located north-east of the geographic center of Texas on the south bank of the Sulphur River and on the east by Arkansas and Louisiana. It has an area of 2487 square kilometers, of which 60 square kilometers are water surface. The Cass County borders the following Nachbarcountys and parishes:
History
The Cass County was formed in 1846 from parts of Bowie County. It was named after Lewis Cass (1782-1866), a U.S. Senator from Michigan, who advocated the admission of Texas to the United States.
In 1861, the County was renamed in Davis County, Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America. After the period of reconstruction after the Civil War, it was again renamed in Cass County.
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Cass County 30,464 people in 12,313 households. The population density was 12.6 inhabitants per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 79.0 percent white, 17.4 percent African American, 0.5 percent Native American, 0.3 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 1.4 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 3.5 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. In the 12,313 households lived statistically 2.36 per person.
22.9 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 57.7 percent were between 18 and 64 and 19.4 percent were 65 years or older. 51.7 percent of the population was female.
The median income for a household was $ 37,065. The per capita income was $ 20,456. 19.3 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Places in Cass County
Citys
- Atlanta
- Hughes Springs1
- Linden
- Queen City
Towns
- Avinger
- Bloomsburg
- Domino
- Douglasville
- Marietta
Unincorporated communities
- Antioch
- Bethsaida
- Bivins
- Bryans Mill
- Cartersville
- Cass
- Cornett
- Cusseta
- Dalton
- Huffins
- Kildare
- Kildare Junction
- Lanark
- Lanier
- McLeod
- New Colony
- Nickleberry
- O'Farrell
- Patman
- Pruett
- Red Hill
- Smyrna
- Springdale
- Three States
- Walton
Structure
The Cass County is divided into five Census County Divisions (CCD):