Miller County (Arkansas)
The Miller County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. The administrative headquarters ( County Seat) is Texarkana.
Geography
The County is located in the extreme southwest of Arkansas, on the south by Louisiana, to the west by Texas and has an area of 1,651 square kilometers, of which 35 square kilometers are water surface. It borders the following counties and parishes:
History
2000 2010
The Miller County was first formed on 1 April 1820 and disbanded in 1838. 1820 included the County essentially the present territory, plus additional areas in Texas. The first county seat was at John Hall House in the settlement Gilliland.
The preservation of the county was not feasible at this time, since Mexico dominated the greater part of East Texas and Texas its independence from Mexico until 1836, after the Texan War of Independence, declared and proclaimed the Republic of Texas. This Republic was never recognized by the Mexican government. Only in the Mexican - American War (1846-1848) was the " Texan issue" resolved.
On 22 December 1874, the Miller County was re-formed from parts of Lafayette County. It was named after each James Miller (1776-1851), the first governor of Arkansas - Territory ( 1819-1825 ).
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Miller County 43,462 people in 16,600 households. The population density was 26.9 inhabitants per square kilometer.
The racial the population was composed of 71.6 percent white, 24.5 percent African American, 0.7 percent Native American, 0.5 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 1.7 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 2.4 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
In the 16,600 households lived statistically 2.51 per person.
23.9 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 61.8 percent were between 18 and 64 and 14.3 percent were 65 years or older. 51.2 percent of the population was female.
The median income for a household was $ 38,855. The per capita income was $ 19,445. 19.0 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Places in Miller County
City
- Texarkana
Towns
- Fouke
- Garland
Unincorporated communities
- Doddridge
- Genoa
- Mandeville
- Artex
- Beck
- Black Diamond
- Boggy
- Boyd
- Bright Star
- Capps City
- Clipper
- Dooley
- Ferguson Crossroads
- Fort Lynn
- Gertrude
- Hammons
- Hervey
- Homan
- Index
- Jonesville
- Kiblah
- Mayton
- McKinney
- Mount Pleasant
- Paup
- Ravanna
- Rocky Mound
- Rondo
- Smithville
Townships
- Beech Township
- Cleveland Township
- Cut Off township
- Days Creek Township
- Garland Township
- Homan Township
- Red River Township
- Sulphur Township