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Hedley, Texas
Hedley is a city in Donley County, Texas, United States. Its population was 329 at the 2010 census, down from 379 at the 2000 census. Geography Hedley is located in southeastern Donley County at (34.867099, –100.659761). U.S. Highway 287 passes through the community, leading northwest to Clarendon, the county seat, and southeast to Childress. Texas State Highway 203 leads east from Hedley to Wellington. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land. Demographics As of the census of 2000, 379 people, 161 households, and 98 families were residing in the city. The population density was 520.1 people/sq mi (200.5/km2). The 209 housing units averaged 286.8/sq mi (110.5/km2). The racial makeup of the city was 91.29% White, 1.85% African American, 1.58% Native American, 5.01% from other races, and 0.26% from two or more races. Hispanics or Latinos of any race were 9.76% of the population. Of the 161 households, 24.8% had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City
A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be defined as a permanent and densely settled place with administratively defined boundaries whose members work primarily on non-agricultural tasks. Cities generally have extensive systems for housing, transportation, sanitation, utilities, land use, production of goods, and communication. Their density facilitates interaction between people, government organisations and businesses, sometimes benefiting different parties in the process, such as improving efficiency of goods and service distribution. Historically, city-dwellers have been a small proportion of humanity overall, but following two centuries of unprecedented and rapid urbanization, more than half of the world population now lives in cities, which has had profound consequences for g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clarendon, Texas
Clarendon is a city in Donley County, Texas, United States. Its population was 2,026 at the 2010 census. The county seat of Donley County, Clarendon is located on U.S. Highway 287 in the Texas Panhandle, east of Amarillo. History Clarendon, established in 1878, was one of the three original Panhandle settlements, the other two being Mobeetie and Tascosa. Clarendon was relocated after its original location was bypassed by the Fort Worth and Denver Railway. The town founder was a Methodist clergyman, L.H. Carhart, who envisioned a "sobriety settlement" in contrast to typical boomtowns of that era. Clarendon acquired the sobriquet "Saints Roost" from local cowboys, hence the unusual name of the Clarendon museum, the Saints' Roost Museum. The town was hit by two tornadoes simultaneously on March 13, 2021. The first tornado caused minor damage west of town before strengthening and causing EF2 damage on the north side of town. The other tornado damaged several homes an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hedley High School
Hedley Independent School District is a public school district based in Hedley, Texas, USA. Located in southeast Donley County, a portion of the district extends into Collingsworth County. In addition to Hedley, the district also serves the community of Quail. Hedley ISD has one school, Hedley School that serves students in grades pre-kindergarten through twelve. In 2009, the school district was rated " recognized" by the Texas Education Agency. In 2013, the school was rated " Met Standard" by the Texas Education Agency. Athletics The Hedley Owls compete in the following sports Cross Country, 6-Man Football, Basketball, Golf, Tennis, Track, Powerlifting Faculty *Don Haskins: His second basketball head coaching job was at Hedley from 1956 to 1960. In 1959 his team advanced to the state tournament. He became the men's basketball head coach at Texas Western College (renamed the University of Texas at El Paso in 1967) from 1961 to 1999, including the 1966 season when his tea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hedley Independent School District
Hedley Independent School District is a public school district based in Hedley, Texas, USA. Located in southeast Donley County, a portion of the district extends into Collingsworth County. In addition to Hedley, the district also serves the community of Quail. Hedley ISD has one school, Hedley School that serves students in grades pre-kindergarten through twelve. In 2009, the school district was rated " recognized" by the Texas Education Agency. In 2013, the school was rated " Met Standard" by the Texas Education Agency. Athletics The Hedley Owls compete in the following sports Cross Country, 6-Man Football, Basketball, Golf, Tennis, Track, Powerlifting Faculty *Don Haskins: His second basketball head coaching job was at Hedley from 1956 to 1960. In 1959 his team advanced to the state tournament. He became the men's basketball head coach at Texas Western College (renamed the University of Texas at El Paso in 1967) from 1961 to 1999, including the 1966 season when his tea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poverty Line
The poverty threshold, poverty limit, poverty line or breadline is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country. The poverty line is usually calculated by estimating the total cost of one year's worth of necessities for the average adult.Poverty Lines – Martin Ravallion, in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition, London: Palgrave Macmillan The cost of housing, such as the rent for an apartment, usually makes up the largest proportion of this estimate, so economists track the real estate market and other housing cost indicators as a major influence on the poverty line. Individual factors are often used to account for various circumstances, such as whether one is a parent, elderly, a child, married, etc. The poverty threshold may be adjusted annually. In practice, like the definition of poverty, the official or common understanding of the poverty line is significantly higher in developed countries than in developing countries. In October 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Per Capita Income
Per capita income (PCI) or total income measures the average income earned per person in a given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year. It is calculated by dividing the area's total income by its total population. Per capita income is national income divided by population size. Per capita income is often used to measure a sector's average income and compare the wealth of different populations. Per capita income is also often used to measure a country's standard of living. It is usually expressed in terms of a commonly used international currency such as the euro or United States dollar, and is useful because it is widely known, is easily calculable from readily available gross domestic product (GDP) and population estimates, and produces a useful statistic for comparison of wealth between sovereign territories. This helps to ascertain a country's development status. It is one of the three measures for calculating the Human Development Index of a country. Per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Race (United States Census)
Race and ethnicity in the United States census, defined by the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the United States Census Bureau, are the Self-concept, self-identified categories of Race and ethnicity in the United States, race or races and ethnicity chosen by residents, with which they most closely identify, and indicate whether they are of Hispanic or Latino (demonym), Latino origin (the only Race and ethnicity in the United States, categories for ethnicity). The racial categories represent a social-political construct for the race or races that respondents consider themselves to be and, "generally reflect a social definition of race recognized in this country." OMB defines the concept of race as outlined for the U.S. census as not "scientific or anthropological" and takes into account "social and cultural characteristics as well as ancestry", using "appropriate scientific methodologies" that are not "primarily biological or genetic in reference." The race cat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Population Density
Population density (in agriculture: standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area. It is mostly applied to humans, but sometimes to other living organisms too. It is a key geographical term.Matt RosenberPopulation Density Geography.about.com. March 2, 2011. Retrieved on December 10, 2011. In simple terms, population density refers to the number of people living in an area per square kilometre, or other unit of land area. Biological population densities Population density is population divided by total land area, sometimes including seas and oceans, as appropriate. Low densities may cause an extinction vortex and further reduce fertility. This is called the Allee effect after the scientist who identified it. Examples of the causes of reduced fertility in low population densities are * Increased problems with locating sexual mates * Increased inbreeding Human densities Population density is the number of people per unit of area, usuall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses include censuses of agriculture, traditional culture, business, supplies, and traffic censuses. The United Nations (UN) defines the essential features of population and housing censuses as "individual enumeration, universality within a defined territory, simultaneity and defined periodicity", and recommends that population censuses be taken at least every ten years. UN recommendations also cover census topics to be collected, official definitions, classifications and other useful information to co-ordinate international practices. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), in turn, defines the census of agriculture as "a statistical operation for collecting, processing and disseminating data on the structure of agriculture, covering th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wellington, Texas
Wellington is a city and county seat of Collingsworth County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,189 at the 2010 census. History Sometime in 1889 or 1890, as smaller ranches and farmlands were being purchased, Ernest Theodore O'Neil, his brother-in-law John Simon McConnell, and John W. Swearingen, together had purchased the land upon which the town currently sits, for $5.00 per acre. Subsequently, O'Neil, who originally owned a fourth of the section of the township, purchased the interests of McConnell and Swearingen, and retained sole ownership of the land. The 1890 census showed 357 inhabitants across the county, with 89 ranches and farms and of land in cultivation. In August 1890, a petition was circulated to organize the county, choose a county seat, and elect county officers. Two potential townships were proposed: Wellington and Pearl. The proposed town of Wellington was located on the land owned by Ernest T. O'Neil who was promoting this location, and had been giv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Texas State Highway 203
State Highway 203 is a nearly state highway in the U.S. state of Texas. It runs through the Texas panhandle from Hedley to the Oklahoma state line. History SH 203 was added to the state highway system by 1919, as part of SH 13; the former alignment of SH 13 via Wheeler became SH 33 and is now SH 152. By 1926, SH 13 had taken the alignment that became US 66, while the route through Wellington became SH 52.Rand McNally Auto Road Atlas, 1926Texas/ref> On March 13, 1934, the part of SH 52 east of Wellington remained, but the highway west of Wellington was renumbered SH 203, along with a proposedTexas State Highway Department 1935 route from Wellington to the state line near Dodson, Texas, Dodson. On June 23, 1945, the state designated the route via Dodson as part of Farm to Market Road 338, causing this section of SH 203 to conflict in designation. SH 203 was rerouted on September 26, 1945 to absorb the rest of SH 52, as the old route was already part of FM 338. There have been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Childress, Texas
Childress ( ) (established 1887; incorporated 1890) is a city in Childress County, Texas, United States. The population was 6,905 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Childress County. The city and county were named in honor of George Campbell Childress, a native of Nashville, Tennessee, who was the principal author of the Texas Declaration of Independence. The county and city were incorporated more than four decades after Childress's death. In December 2015, the ''Seattle Post-Intelligencer'' voted Childress ninth among the ten "most conservative" cities in the United States in regard to political contributions. Other West Texas communities in the most conservative lineup are Hereford (No. 1), Monahans (No. 5), and Dalhart in Dallam County in the far northwestern Texas Panhandle (No. 8). Princeton in Collin County north of Dallas ranked No. 2. In contrast, Vashon Island, Washington was named the "most liberal" city in the nation in terms of political donations. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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