Choctaw County (Oklahoma)
The Choctaw County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. In the census in 2010, the County had 15,205 inhabitants and a population density of 7.6 inhabitants per square kilometer. The administrative headquarters ( County Seat) is Hugo, which was named after the French poet Victor Hugo.
Geography
The County is located in southeastern Oklahoma, in the south as Texas and has an area of 2,074 square kilometers, of which 69 square kilometers are water surface. It is bordered by the following counties:
History
The Choctaw County was formed on 16 July 1907 as the original County of Choctaw country. It was named after the North American Indian people of the Choctaw.
Already in 1821 there were in this area a trading post in 1854 and a military post was established. In the former administration building of the Choctaw, the last Confederate general was captured after the American Civil War. Near the old military post built in 1832 to a two-story log house, the oldest still existing building Oklahoma - the Old Chiefs House - for the then Distrikleiter Thomas Le Flore, after whom the Le Flore County was named. After the Civil War it served as the first school for blacks. The Goodland Presbyterian Children's Home, the oldest continuously open institution in Oklahoma and the oldest Protestant Children's Home of the United States is also in the county.
Historical buildings
In Hugo, the Hugo Frisco Railroad Depot is located (also known as Frisco Depot). The depot was taken on June 6, 1980 by the National Register of Historic Places as a historic building with the number 80,003,259.
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Choctaw County 15,205 people in 6,317 households. The population density was 7.6 people per square kilometer.
The racial the population was composed of 64.9 percent white, 10.9 percent African American, 16.5 percent Native American, 0.3 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 6.6 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 2.8 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
In the 6,317 households lived statistically 2.31 per person.
24.6 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 57.8 percent were between 18 and 64 and 17.6 percent were 65 years or older. 52.4 percent of the population was female.
The median income for a household was $ 26,803. The per capita income was $ 16,486. 26.1 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Cities and Towns
City
- Hugo
Towns
- Boswell
- Fort Towson
- Sawyer
- Soper