Clark County (Arkansas)
The Clark County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. The administrative headquarters ( County Seat) is Arkadelphia. The county is one of the Dry counties, which means that the sale of alcohol is restricted or prohibited.
Geography
The County is located in the central southwest Arkansas and has an area of 2,286 square kilometers, of which 44 square kilometers are water surface. It is bordered by the following counties:
History
The Clark County was formed on December 15, 1818 from parts of Arkansas County. It was named after William Clark (1770-1838), a governor of Missouri - territory and a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
The boundaries of the county were corrected five times until they were established in its current form since 1877.
Demographic data
According to the census in 2000, lived in Clark County 23 546 people in 8,912 households and 5,819 families. The population density was ten inhabitants per square kilometer. The racial the population was made up of 74.28 percent White, 22.02 percent Black or African American, 0.46 percent Native American, 0.62 percent Asian, 0.04 percent of residents from the Pacific Islander and 1.37 percent from other races groups. Regardless of ethnicity were 1.20 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
Of the 8912 households out of which 29.8 per cent of children or young people under the age of 18 who lived with them. 49.8 percent were married couples living together, 12.2 percent were single mothers, 34.7 percent were non-families. 27.6 percent of all households were single-person households, and 12.4 percent had someone living alone at the age of 65 years or older. The average household size was 2.38 and the average family size is 2.91 people.
21.7 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 20.0 percent between 18 to 24, 23.8 percent between 25 and 44, 19.9 percent between 45 and 64 and 14.6 percent were 65 years or older. The average age was 32 years. For every 100 females there were 92.7 males to every 100 females age 18 and over, there were an average of 88.9 males.
The median income for a household was 28,845 U.S. dollars, and the median income for a family 37 092 U.S. dollars. Males have a median income of $ 28,692 U.S. dollars, 19,886 women U.S. dollars. The per capita income was 14,533 dollars. 13.5 percent of families and 19.1 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Cities and Towns
Citys
- Amity
- Arkadelphia
- Gurdon
Towns
- Caddo Valley
- Gum Springs
- Okolona
- Whelen Springs
Unincorporated communities
- Alpine
- Beirne
- Curtis
- Barringer
- Bethel
- Boswell
- Burtsell
- Central
- Clear Spring
- Daleville
- De Gray
- Dobyville
- Fendley
- Sonia Gray
- Griffithtown
- Halfway
- Haretown
- Hollywood
- Joan
- Kansas
- Knoxville
- Lenox
- Love Creek
- Majors
- Meeks Settlement
- Pike Junction
- Red Springs
- Richwoods
- Shakertown
- Smithton
- Smyrna
- Sycamore
- Trace
- Vaden
- Witherspoon