Anderson County is a

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. Located within

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, its

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. As of the

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, the population of Anderson County was 57,922. Anderson County comprises the Palestine micropolitan statistical area. Anderson County was organized in 1846, and was named for Kenneth Lewis Anderson (1805-1845), the last vice president of the

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History

Native Americans

Native Americans friendly to the settlers resided in

before the

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, Kickapoo,

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, and

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relocated to the territory. These tribes hunted, farmed the land, and were adept traders. By 1772, they had settled on the Brazos at

Waco Waco ( ) is the county seat of McLennan County, Texas, United States. It is situated along the Brazos River and I-35, halfway between Dallas and Austin. The city had a 2020 population of 138,486, making it the 22nd-most populous city in the st ...

and on the

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upstream from present

. The Tawakoni branch of Wichita Indians originated north of Texas, but migrated south into East Texas. From 1843 onward, the Tawakoni were part of treaties made by both the

and the United States. On May 19, 1836, an alliance of Comanche, Kiowa,

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, and Wichita attacked Fort Parker (Limestone County), killing and taking settlers captive. The survivors escaped to Fort Houston, which had been erected in Anderson County in 1835 as protection against Indians. Some early residents of Anderson County were related to

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, who was among the captives. In October 1838, Gen. Thomas Jefferson Rusk conducted a raid against hostile Indians at Kickapoo, near Frankston. This ended the engagements with the Indians in East Texas for that year.

Anglo settlement

In 1826, empresario

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received a grant from the

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legislature to settle 300 families in what is now Anderson County. Most of the settlers came from the southern states and

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. Baptist leader Daniel Parker Texas Escapes - Blueprints For Travel, LLC. and eight other men organized the Pilgrim Predestinarian Regular Baptist Church in Lamotte, Illinois in 1833. This entire group migrated to the Texas frontier, arriving in Austins Colony in November 1833, and establishing

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( Limestone County) in 1834. In October 1834, in consequence of "their members were becoming scattered in a wilderness," the Church agreed to adjourn until the majority of their members settled. After the Texas Revolution and the attack on

, Daniel Parker and some of the survivors moved to Fort Houston (Anderson County). They established a new community south of the fort.

Incorporation

The First Legislature of the State of Texas formed Anderson County from Houston County on March 24, 1846. The county was named for Kenneth Lewis Anderson. Palestine was named the county seat. Anderson County voted for

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from the Union. When the

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began, former Palestine district judge Judge John H. Reagan served in the cabinet of the

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government as postmaster general, being captured at the end of the war and spending 22 months in solitary confinement. During

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, District Nine Court Judge Reuben A. Reeves, a resident of Palestine, was removed from office as "an obstruction to Reconstruction" in part because of his refusal to allow blacks to participate as jurors in the judicial process. In 1875, the

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placed its machine and repair shops and general offices in Palestine, causing the community to double in size over the next 5 years. For a time, it was a rough railroad town, dominated by male workers. White violence against blacks occurred in the county, most frequently by lynchings of black men. But in July 1910, at least 22 blacks were killed in white rioting near Slocum, a majority-black community, in what is called the Slocum Massacre. Racial and economic tensions had been high in the post-Reconstruction era and southern states had disenfranchised blacks and imposed

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in furtherance of

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. Anderson County tied for 13th place in a list of the 25 American counties with the highest number of lynchings between 1877 and 1950 (all were located in the South). Oral tradition in the African-American community holds that as many as 200 blacks may have been killed in the massacre. An estimated 200 whites rioted and attacked blacks on the roads, in the fields, and in Slocum on July 29–30, 1910. Many black homes were burned, and black families fled for their lives, having to abandon their property and assets. This town is about 20 miles east of the county seat at Palestine. At the time, as was usual, white newspapers described such events as a "race riot" by blacks. Texas newspapers had contributed to problems by reporting false rumors that 200 blacks were arming. Afterward, 11 men were arrested and seven were indicted, including James Spurger, said by many to be the instigator, but no prosecution resulted. The massacre had been preceded by racial tensions, rumors, and, for 6 months, at least one lynching per month of Blacks in East Texas.David Martin Davies, "Should Texas Remember Or Forget The Slocum Massacre?"
Texas Public Radio, January 16, 2015; accessed May 15, 2018 In January 2016, the state installed a highway historical marker in Slocum to recognize this unprovoked white attack on the black community. It was part of a history of white violence against blacks. In 1926, the Humble Oil and Refining Company, in partnership with the Rio Bravo Company, started an exploration drilling program along Boggy Creek, in what turned our to be the Boggy Creek

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. On 19 March 1927, the Elliott and Clark No. 1 encountered the

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at a depth of and produced 62 barrels of oil per hour, but showed salt water after producing only 15,000 barrels. On 10 November 1927, the Elliott and Clark No. 2, 150 feet to the west, was completed as a gas well. On 4 February 1928, the first oil-producing well in Anderson County, the Humble-Lizzie Smith No. 1, was completed, producing 80

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. By May 1931, 80 wells had been drilled in the Boggy Creek Oil Field, 6 of which produced gas, 33 oil, and 41 were dry holes. The Fairway Oil Field was discovered in 1960, and straddles the border of Anderson and Henderson Counties. Oil is produced from the

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James

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member of the Pearsall

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. The

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was purchased by the state between 1950 and 1960, much of it formerly owned by Milze L. Derden. The area was renamed in 1952 for Gus A. Engeling, the first state biologist assigned to the area who was killed by a poacher on December 13, 1951.

Geography

Anderson County is situated at the threshold of two ecoregions, the

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to the east, and the

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, also referred to as post oak savanna to the west. The terrain of Anderson County consists of hills carved by drainages and gullies, with numerous lakes and ponds. The Trinity River flows southward along the west boundary line of the county; the Neches River flows southward along its east boundary line, and Brushy Creek flows southeastward through the central portion of the county.''Anderson County TX'' Google Maps (accessed 12 February 2019)
/ref> The terrain slopes to the south and east, with its highest points along the midpoint of its northern boundary line at 551' (168m) ASL. The county has a total area of , of which are land and (1.4%) are covered by water. The county is wholly located within

area codes 430 and 903 Area codes 903 and 430 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Texas, including Texarkana, Tyler, and Sherman. The numbering plan area begins just north and east of the ...

Major highways

* U.S. Highway 79 * U.S. Highway 84 *

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* U.S. Highway 287 * State Highway 19 * State Highway 155 * State Highway 294

Adjacent counties

* Henderson County (north) *

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(east) * Houston County (south) * Leon County (southwest) * Freestone County (west)

Protected areas

* Big Lake Bottom Wildlife Management Area (part) *

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(part) * Richland Creek Wildlife Management Area (part)

Lakes

* Big Twin Lake * Cox Lake * Crystal Lake * Hudson Lake * Lake Dogwood * Lake Frankston * Lost Prairie Lake * Pineywoods Lake * Spring Lake * Williams Lake

Communities

City

(county seat)

Towns

* Elkhart * Frankston

Unincorporated areas

* Alderbranch *

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* Blackfoot *

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* Brushy Creek * Cayuga * Cronin *

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* Elmtown * Elmwood *

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* Greens Bluff * Long Lake * Massey Lake * Montalba * Mound City (partly in Houston County) * Neches *

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* Slocum * Springfield * Swanson Hill Church * Tennessee Colony * Todd City *

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* Wells Creek *

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Ghost towns

* Jarvis * Wild Cat Bluff

Population ranking

The population ranking of the following table is based on the 2020 census of Anderson County. † ''county seat''

Demographics

''Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos can be of any race.'' From its initial population of 2,684 in 1850, Anderson County's population increased to 55,109 people at the

2000 U.S. census The United States census of 2000, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13.2 percent over the 248,709,873 people enumerated during the 1990 cen ...

. By the publication of the

, its population further grew to 57,922, though the 2020 tabulation is a decline of negative 0.9% from 2010's 58,458 residents at the 2010 U.S. census. Among the growing population of Anderson county, its racial and ethnic makeup has remained predominantly non-Hispanic or non-Latino white, although its

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population of any race increased to consist of more than 11,000 residents as of 2020; the increase in Hispanic and Latino American residency reflected nationwide trends of diversification since the 2020 census. Of note, its

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communities have remained relatively the same, though experiencing a slight decline;

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have increased to 2.73% of the population. Consisting of 16,555 households according to the 2020

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's 5-year estimates, there was a homeownership rate of 71.5%. Among the population, the median gross rent was $829 against the statewide median of $1,082. The median value of an owner-occupied housing unit was $110,000, and the median mortgage was $1,102; housing units without a mortgage had a median monthly cost of $441. In 2000, there were 15,678 households, 34.10% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 55.50% were married couples living together, 13.20% had a female householder with no husband present, and 27.70% were not families. About 24.80% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.80% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

2000 Census

In 2000, the median income for a household in the county was $31,957, and for a family was $37,513. Males had a median income of $27,070 versus $21,577 for females. The

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for the county was $13,838. About 12.70% of families and 16.50% of the population were below the

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, including 21.60% of those under age 18 and 16.60% of those age 65 or over. In 2020, its median household income grew to $45,847 and 14.1% of the population lived at or below the poverty line. The impoverished communities in Anderson County consisted of 21.5% of residents under the age of 18, and 9.9% were aged 65 and older.

Government and politics

Government

Anderson County is governed by a commissioners' court. It consists of the

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, who is elected at-large and presides over the full court, and four commissioners, who are elected from the county's four single-member precincts.

County commissioners

County officials

Constables

State prisons

The

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operates state prisons for men in the county. The prisons Beto, Coffield,

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, and Powledge units and the

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transfer facility are located in an

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west of

. The Beto Unit has the Correctional Institutions Division Region II maintenance headquarters.Beto Unit
.

. Retrieved June 5, 2010.

Courts

Justices of the peace

County court at law

Jeff Doran, a Republican, is the judge of the county court at law.

District courts

Politics

Anderson is a strongly Republican county, voting Republican in every election since 1980 (as of 2020). The county last voted Democratic in 1976, when Jimmy Carter won 57% of the county's votes. Hillary Clinton managed to win just 19.8% of the vote in the county, the least of any presidential candidate since 1944.

Education

These school districts serve areas in Anderson County: * Athens Independent School District (partial) *

Cayuga Independent School District Cayuga Independent School District is a public school district based in Cayuga, Texas ( USA) in unincorporated Anderson County, Texas ( USA). In 2009, the school district was rated " recognized" by the Texas Education Agency. Schools Located ...

Elkhart Independent School District Elkhart Independent School District is a public school district based in Elkhart, Texas ( USA). The district is located in southwest Anderson County and extends into northern Houston County. A small portion of the district extends to the cit ...

(partial) *

Frankston Independent School District The Frankston Independent School District is a public school district based in Frankston, Texas ( USA). The district is located in northeastern Anderson County and extends into southeastern Henderson County, including the town of Berryville ...

(partial) * La Poynor Independent School District (partial) * Neches Independent School District *

Palestine Independent School District Palestine Independent School District is a public school district based in Palestine, Texas (USA) that serves approximately 3,500 students in central Anderson County. In 2009, the school district was rated "academically acceptable" by the T ...

Slocum Independent School District Slocum Independent School District is a public school district based in the community of Slocum in unincorporated Anderson County, Texas (USA). Located in southeastern Anderson County, the district has two campuses: * Slocum High School (Gra ...

Westwood Independent School District Westwood Independent School District is a public school district based in Palestine, Texas (USA). The district serves part of Palestine and rural areas in west central Anderson County. In 2009, the school district was rated "academically ac ...

Media

Anderson County is part of the

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DMA. Local TV media outlets include:

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, KTVT-TV,

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KTXA-TV KTXA (channel 21) is an independent television station in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, serving the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. It is owned by the CBS News and Stations group alongside Fort Worth–based CBS station KTVT (channel 11). ...

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, and

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. Other nearby TV stations that provide coverage for Anderson County come from the

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market and they include:

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, KTRE-TV, KYTX-TV,

KFXK-TV KFXK-TV (channel 51) is a television station licensed to Longview, Texas, United States, serving East Texas as an affiliate of the Fox network. It is owned by White Knight Broadcasting, which maintains a shared services agreement (SSA) ...

, and

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. Newspapers serving Anderson County include the '' Palestine Herald-Press'' in Palestine and the weekly online ''Frankston Citizen'' in Frankston.

References

External links

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Geography

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Ghost towns

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