Hot Spring County, Arkansas

The Hot Spring County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. The administrative headquarters ( County Seat) is Malvern. The county is one of the Dry counties, which means that the sale of alcohol is restricted or prohibited.

Geography

The County is located southwest of the geographic center of Arkansas, and has an area of 1,611 square kilometers, of which 19 square kilometers are water surface. It is bordered by the following counties:

History

2000 2010

The Hot Spring County was formed on November 2, 1829 from parts of Clark County as the 18th county in Arkansas. It was named for the hot springs is located here, which were later used as a medicinal springs. Ironically, the hot springs are no longer within the Countygrenzen.

First county seat was in Hot Springs. 1844 was Rockport. In 1866 the two-story County Courthouse was completed, which was destroyed again but on January 23, 1873 by fire. The Cairo and Fulton Railroad (later Missouri Pacific Railroad ) offered the city of Rockport against an investment with a connection to their rail network. As Rockport refused, the railroad company moved the rails in 1873 to Malvern, which seemed to her more profitable. Immediately Malvern served as a transfer point between the rail and stagecoach routes. On October 15, 1878 Malvern was elected County Seat.

Demographic data

According to the census in 2010 lived in Hot Spring County 32 923 people in 11,660 households. The population density was 20.7 inhabitants per square kilometer.

The racial the population was composed of 85.6 percent white, 10.8 percent African American, 0.5 percent Native American, 0.3 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 1.7 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 2.8 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

In the 11,660 households lived statistically 2.64 per person.

22.8 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 61.7 percent were between 18 and 64 and 15.5 percent were 65 years or older. 49.8 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was $ 36,387. The per capita income was $ 17,922. 17.2 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Places in Hot Spring County

City

Malvern

Towns

Donaldson
Friendship
Magnet Cove

Midway
Perla
Rockport

Unincorporated communities

Bismarck
Bonnerdale
Jones Mill
Social Hill

Abco
Beaton
Brown Springs
Caney
Central
Crossroads
Diamond Head
Glen Rose
Harp
Lambert
Landers
Lono
Morningstar
Mount Moriah
Oak Grove
Grandma
Cedar Point
Rolla
Saginaw
Shorewood Hills
Whittington
Witherspoon

Townships

Antioch Township
Big Creek Township
Bismarck Township
Brown Springs township
Butterfield Township
Clear Creek Township
De Roche Township
Dover Township
Fenter Township
Gifford Township
Harrison Township
Henderson Township
Lone Hill Township
Magnetic Township
Midway Township
Montgomery Township
Ouachita Township
Prairie Township
Saline Township
Valley Township

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