Hugo (Oklahoma)
Hugo is located in the southeast of the State of Oklahoma in the southern United States, about ten kilometers from the southern border of Texas and 95 km away from the eastern border with Arkansas. In the northeast of Hugo Lake State Park and on to the more than 52 square kilometers of Hugo Lake. Southwest of the town is the nature reserve of the Pat Mayse Lake.
Nearby cities include Grant (5 km south), Sawyer (7 km to the east ), Soper (15 miles west), rattan (20 km northeast) and Antlers (22 km north). Nearest large city with over 1.2 million inhabitants over 165 kilometers southwest away Located in Dallas Texas.
History
The current urban area Hugos was once part of a large Indian Territory in the United States, which arose in the wake of the expulsion of the Indians and fell apart with the establishment of the State of Oklahoma. In the area of today's County Choctaw Indians were located, how it got its name.
In the early 20th century, many Jews moved to Hugo, fleeing the increasingly anti -Semitic attitudes in Europe. They were mostly merchants, business owner or peddlers. One of them, Abe Romick, became the first Minister of Commerce of the State and moved to Alaska later. Until the early 1950s, almost all Jews had left the city and settled in major cities like Dallas or Fort Worth. Currently there is no Jewish origin people live longer in Hugo, so that many residents of this part of their city's history is not even aware of.
In 1993, the city population was repeatedly ravaged by disaster. Thus occurred on a Walmart parking lot a firefight and during just one week in December broke two major fire and destroyed a local school as well as parts of the business center. The historic Belmont Hotel could not be saved.
From the northwest to the east of the city runs the U.S. Highway 70 leading to a length of about 3800 miles of Arizona in the west to North Carolina in the East. In the southwest, around the city also leads the U.S. Highway 271, which runs from Fort Smith in the north to Tyler. In addition, in the South leads the city's Indian Nation Turnpike, which begins north of Henryetta, the U.S. Highway 70 about 95 kilometers south of the city extends Interstate 30
Demography
The 2000 census showed a population of 5536 people, spread over 2309 households and 1415 families. The population density was 386 people per square kilometer. 49.3 % of the population were white, 30.6 % Black, 14.1% Native American, 0.3 % Asian and Pacific Islanders at 0.1 %. 0.4 % were from a different ethnicity, 5.3% had two or more ethnicities, 1.6% were Hispanic or Latino of any ethnicity. For every 100 females 80 males. The average age was 38 years, the per capita income was about 11,500 U.S. dollars, with which almost 30 % of the population lived below the poverty line.
Until the 2010 census, the population fell slightly to 5310th