Clarksville (Texas)
Red River County
48-15160
Clarksville is a city and the county seat of Red River County in the U.S. state of Texas. Covering an area of nearly eight square kilometers, nearly 3,300 people live.
Clarksville is part of the socio-economic region Ark- La -Tex, which includes parts of four states Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas.
Geography
Clarksville is located in the northeast of the state of Texas in the southern United States. It is set in an era marked by great lakes landscape that stretches from the northeastern Oklahoma to the Gulf of Mexico.
Nearby Cities are other Annona (12 km east), Detroit (18 miles west), Bogata (19 m southwest ), Avery (24 km east), Blossom (29 miles west) and Paris (34 km west). Nearest large city with about 1.2 million inhabitants over 160 kilometers southwest away Situated Dallas.
Traffic
In west-east direction of the city from the U.S. Highway 82 is run through, which leads to a length of 2589 kilometers from New Mexico in the west to Georgia in the East. In the north- west of the city he runs partly on the same route with the Texas State Highway 37, which connects Albion in the north with the south Mineola. About 40 kilometers southeast of the city extends Interstate 30
In the south of the city is also home to the Clarksville / Red River County Airport, which is served primarily by regional air traffic and has a 914 -meter-long airstrip. About 3300 aircraft movements are handled annually.
Demography
The 2000 census showed a population of 3883 people, spread over 1530 households and 1006 families. The population density was more than 501 people per square kilometer. 53.4 % of the population were white, 42.2 % black, 0.3 % Asian and 0.2 % Indians. 3.0% were from a different ethnicity, 1.0% had two or more ethnicities, 7.3% were Hispanic or Latino of any ethnicity. For every 100 females 85 males. The average age was 37 years, the per capita income was nearly 13,500 U.S. dollars, which almost 24 % of the population were below the poverty line.
Until the 2010 census, the population has dropped to 3285.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Tommie Smith ( born 1944 ), track and field athlete and Olympic champion
- JD Tippit (1924-1963), police officer and one of the victims of the Kennedy assassination
- John Williams (1922-1994), author and professor