Prospect, North Carolina

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Prospect is a census-designated place (CDP) in Robeson County, North Carolina, and the former tribal seat of the Lumbee Indian Tribe of North Carolina. The population was 690 at the 2000 census.

1 Geography
2 Demographics
3 History
4 External links

[edit] Geography

Prospect is located at 34°43′45″N, 79°13′15″W (34.729295, -79.220714)^GR1.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 7.0 km² (2.7 mi²), all land.

[edit] Demographics

As of the census^GR2 of 2000, there were 690 people, 239 households, and 183 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 98.7/km² (255.8/mi²). There were 248 housing units at an average density of 35.5/km² (91.9/mi²). The racial makeup of the CDP was:

96.23% Native American
2.03% White
0.14% African American
0.14% Pacific Islander
0.29% from other races
1.16% from two or more races.
Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.59% of the population.

There were 239 households out of which 38.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 52.7% were married couples living together, 17.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 23.4% were non-families. 20.9% of all households were made up of individuals and 4.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.89 and the average family size was 3.38.

In the CDP the population was spread out with 27.7% under the age of 18, 12.2% from 18 to 24, 30.6% from 25 to 44, 21.0% from 45 to 64, and 8.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 33 years. For every 100 females there were 87.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 89.0 males.

The median income for a household in the CDP was $34,038, and the median income for a family was $42,143. Males had a median income of $31,583 versus $11,705 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $11,359. About 20.1% of families and 21.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 23.9% of those under age 18 and 13.2% of those age 65 or over.

[edit] History

The Tuscarora Indian Tribe of North Carolina makes up 96.23%, or an overwhelming majority of Prospect's population.

The Tuscarora settlement with the longest continuous documentation from the mid-eighteenth century onward is Long Swamp, or present-day Prospect, North Carolina. Prospect, according to the anthropologist James Campisi, "is located in the heart of the so-called old field of the Cheraw documented in land records between 1737 and 1739." Campisi further notes that the earliest census and county records document the presence of an extended Locklear family who functioned throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as tribal leaders, both by descent and marriage. The Locklear family originated on the Bertie Tuscarora reservation.

The Cheraw Old fields were not located in Prospect North Carolina, they were located in South Carolina and were sold to a non-Indian by the name of Thomas Grooms in the year 1739.