Wolfe City, Texas
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Wolfe City is a city in Hunt County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,566 at the 2000 census.
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[edit] Geography
Wolfe City is located at (33.367996, -96.070430)GR1.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 4.0 km² (1.5 mi²). 3.7 km² (1.4 mi²) of it is land and 0.2 km² (0.1 mi²) of it (5.84%) is water.
[edit] History
Wolfe City was settled in the late 1860s or early 1870s, when J. Pinckney Wolfe built a mill near the banks of Oyster Creek. For a brief time area farmers called the community Wolfe's Mill. By 1882, the year it received a post office, the name had become Wolfe City. In 1887 Wolfe City incorporated, and the tracks of the Santa Fe Railroad reached the community, establishing it as an important shipping point for area farmers. In the early 1880s Wolfe City had just over 200 residents and a dozen businesses. By 1892 it had 1,800 people and sixty businesses, including a bank, a planning mill, a foundry, the Sentinel Chronicle, two gristmills, and two cotton gins. On the eve of World War I fifteen businesses served the nearly 1,400 residents. Over the next decade the population of Wolfe City reached its peak, 1,859. In 1945 the town had just over 1,300 residents, and in 1990 the population was 1,505.
[edit] Demographics
As of the censusGR2 of 2000, there were 1,566 people, 615 households, and 413 families residing in the city. The population density was 419.9/km² (1,085.3/mi²). There were 687 housing units at an average density of 184.2/km² (476.1/mi²). The racial makeup of the city was 83.40% White, 13.09% African American, 1.02% Native American, 0.32% Asian, 0.06% Pacific Islander, 0.32% from other races, and 1.79% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.38% of the population.
There were 615 households out of which 34.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 47.5% were married couples living together, 15.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 32.7% were non-families. 30.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 16.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.46 and the average family size was 3.03.
In the city the population was spread out with 27.8% under the age of 18, 8.2% from 18 to 24, 28.0% from 25 to 44, 16.5% from 45 to 64, and 19.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females there were 86.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 76.4 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $26,786, and the median income for a family was $37,692. Males had a median income of $28,462 versus $19,336 for females. The per capita income for the city was $13,317. About 16.5% of families and 19.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 25.2% of those under age 18 and 19.9% of those age 65 or over.
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