Cleburne County (Arkansas)
The Cleburne County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. The administrative headquarters ( County Seat) is Heber Springs. 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 northeastern Arkansas and has an area of 1533 square kilometers, of which 101 square kilometers are water surface. It is bordered by the following counties:
History
The Cleburne County was formed on February 20, 1883 from parts of Independence County, the Van Buren County and White County last county in Arkansas. It was named after Patrick Ronayne Cleburne (1828-1864), a general of the Confederate army.
Demographic data
According to the census in 2000 lived in Cleburne County 24,046 people in 10,190 households and 7,408 families. The population density was 17 people per square kilometer. The racial the population was made up of 98.20 percent White, 0.12 percent African American, 0.47 percent Native American, 0.15 percent Asian, 0.02 percent of residents from the Pacific Islander, and 0.15 percent from other races groups; 0.89 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 1.17 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
Of the 10,190 households out of which 26.3 per cent of children or young people under the age of 18 who lived with them. 61.7 percent were married couples living together, 7.9 percent were single mothers, 27.3 percent were non-families. 24.4 percent of all households were single-person households, and 12.3 percent had someone living alone at the age of 65 years or older. The average household size was 2.33 and the average family size is 2.74 people.
21.3 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 6.6 percent between 18 to 24, 24.1 percent between 25 and 44, 26.9 percent between 45 and 64 and 21.1 percent were 65 years or older. The average age was 44 years. For every 100 females there were 93.9 males to every 100 females age 18 and over, there were an average of 92.5 males.
The median income for a household was $ 31,531, and the median income for a family $ 37,273. Males have a median income of $ 28,844, women $ 19,672. The per capita income was $ 17,250. 9.0 percent of families and 13.1 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Places in Cleburne County
City
- Fairfield Bay1
- Greers Ferry
- Heber Springs
- Quitman2
Towns
- Concord
- Higden
Unincorporated communities
- Drasco (Texas )
- Edgemont
- Hopewell
- Ida
- Prime
- Christmas tree
- Wilburn
- Almond
- Banner
- Brewer
- Brownsville
- Concord
- Crossroads
- Drasco
- Edgemont
- Fairfield Bay
- Fivemile
- Greers Ferry
- Heber Springs
- Higden
- Hiram
- Hopewell
- Ida
- McJester
- Partain
- Pearson
- Prime
- Quitman
- Sandiff
- Tumbling Shoals
- West Pangburn
- Whispering Springs
- Wilburn
- Wolf Bayou
- Woodrow
Townships
- California Township
- Center Township Post
- Clayton Township
- East Peter Creek Township
- Francis Township
- Giles Township
- Grassey Township
- Heaing Springs Township
- Heber Township
- McJester Township
- Morgan Township
- Mountain Township
- North Cadron Township
- Pickens Township
- Pine Township
- Piney Township
- Poff Township
- Saline Township
- South Cadron Township
- Sugar Camp Township
- Sugar Loaf Township
- Valley Township
- Peter West Creek Township
- Wilburn Township