Crawford County (Arkansas)
The Crawford County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. The administrative headquarters ( County Seat), Van Buren. 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 northwest Arkansas, on the west by Oklahoma and has an area of 1,565 square kilometers, of which 23 square kilometers are water surface. It is bordered by the following counties:
History
The Crawford County was formed on October 18, 1820 from parts of Pulaski County and was in 1820 the largest county in Arkansas.
It was named after William Harris Crawford (1772-1834), a US- American War (1815-1816) and Minister of Finance (1816-1825)
From the Crawford County eight other counties, as well as an Indian reservation emerged in the subsequent period.
The first newspaper, the Arkansas Intelligencer was published in 1842. The first telegraph connection was laid in 1851 and the first stagecoach of the Butterfield Overland Mail perverted from September 1858.
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Crawford County 61 948 people in 21,350 households. The population density was 40.2 inhabitants per square kilometer.
The racial the population was composed of 89.1 percent white, 1.2 percent African American, 2.2 percent Native American, 1.4 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 2.9 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity or 6.1 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
In the 21,350 households lived statistically 2.74 per person.
26.4 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 60.9 percent were between 18 and 64 and 12.7 percent were 65 years or older. 50.6 percent of the population was female.
The median income for a household was $ 39,618. The per capita income was $ 18,637. 17.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Places in Crawford County
Citys
- Alma
- Cedarville
- Kibler
- Mountainburg
- Mulberry
- Van Buren
Towns
- Chester
- Dyer
- Rudy
Unincorporated communities
- Artist Point
- Dora
- Natural Dam
- Uniontown
- Artist Point
- Barcelona
- Cain
- Catcher
- Concord
- Cross Lanes
- Davidson
- Deans Market
- Dripping Springs
- Figure Five
- Furry
- Graphic
- Greenwood Junction
- Haroldton
- Hobbtown
- Lee Creek
- Meadows
- Mount Gaylor
- Natural Dam
- New Haroldton
- New Town
- Oak Grove
- Pleasant Hill
- Rena
- Schaberg
- Shibley
- Smeltzer
- Westville
- Wrightstown
- Yoestown
Townships
- Alma Township
- Bidville Township
- Cedar Creek Township
- Cedarville Township
- Chester Township
- Cove City township
- Dean Springs township
- Dora Township
- Dyer Township
- Jasper Township
- Kibler Township
- Lancaster Township
- Lees Creek Township
- Locke Township
- Mountain Township
- Mulberry Township
- Oliver Springs Township
- Porter Township
- Rudy Township
- Union Township
- Upper Township
- Van Buren Township
- Vine Prairie Township
- Whitley Township
- Winfrey Township