Greenlee County, Arizona
The Greenlee County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arizona in the United States. The administrative headquarters ( County Seat) is Clifton.
Geography
The Greenlee County is located within Arizona to the southeast and at the eastern edge has a common border with the state of New Mexico. It has a total area of 4786 square kilometers, of which three square kilometers of water. Greenlee bordered clockwise to the following counties: Apache County, Catron County ( New Mexico), Grant County ( New Mexico), Hidalgo County ( New Mexico), Cochise County and Graham County.
Depopulated Greenlee County is grouped with the western neighboring Graham County from the United States Census Bureau for the Safford Micropolitan Statistical Area.
History
The Greenlee County was formed on 10 March 1909 and after the pioneer settlers Mason Greenlee ( Greenlee also Masin ) named. It was as Arizona's 14th County founded by splitting off a portion of Graham County, which resisted the Neuausgründung.
Demography
2000 2010
According to the census of 2000, there were 8,547 people in the Greenley County; were counted 3,117 households and 2,266 families. The population density was 2 people per square kilometer. There 3,744 residential units were recorded. The racial the population was composed of 74.2 percent white, 0.5 percent African American, 1.7 percent Native American, 0.2 percent Asian, and 20.1 percent from other ethnic groups; 3.5 percent said the lineage of several ethnicities. 43.1 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. 25.2 percent of the population reported speaking Spanish at home.
Of the 3,117 households out of which 39.2 per cent of children or young people who lived with them. 58.3 percent were married couples living together, 9.0 percent were single mothers and 27.3 percent were non-families. 24.5 percent of all households and 7.3 percent had someone living alone at the age of 65 years or older. The average household size was 2.73 and the average family size 3.26 persons.
The population was spread out with 31.7 percent under the age of 18, 7.5 percent from 18 to 24, 28.2 percent 25-44 years, 22.6 percent from 45 to 64 years and 9.9 percent of 65 years or older. The average age (median) was 34 years. For every 100 females there were 109.2 males to 100 females age 18 and over, there were 108.0 males.
The median income for a household (median) was $ 39 384, and the median income for a family $ 43,523. Males have a median income of $ 38,952, women $ 23,333. The per capita income was $ 15,814. Under the poverty line lived 8.0 percent of families and 9.9 percent of the population.
The following table lists the population of the Greenlee County since 1920, according to the results of the censuses from 1920 to 2000 and a projection for 2005 by the United States Census Bureau:
Towns and villages
- Apache Grove
- Blue
- Blue Vista
- Carlton Vista
- Cleaveland
- Clifton
- Duncan
- East Plant Site
- Fox
- Franklin
- Granville
- Guthrie
- Hannagan Meadow
- Morenci
- Plant Site
- Sheldon
- Sprucedale
- Spur Cross
- Stargo
- Stray Horse
- Three Way
- Whispering Pines
- York
Nature and landscape protection areas
Parts of the Apache Sitgreaves National Forest and the Gila Box Riparian National Conservation Area are in Grennlee County.