Van Horn is a city located in the west of Texas ( USA ), about 170 km southeast of El Paso and 640 km west of San Antonio . Van Horn is the county seat of Culberson County . According to the US Census Bureau , according to the 2010 census, the population of Van Horn was 2063 people [1] .
| City | |
| Van horn | |
|---|---|
| Van horn | |
 Culberson County Courthouse | |
| A country |  USA |
| State | Texas |
| County | Calberson |
| History and Geography | |
| Founded | 1881 |
| City with | 1945 |
| Area | 7.4 km² |
| Center height | 1232 m |
| Timezone | UTC − 6 ; summer UTC − 5 |
| Population | |
| Population | 2,063 people ( 2010 ) |
| Digital identifiers | |
| Telephone code | +1 432 |
| Postcode | 79855 |
| GNIS | |
Content
- 1 History
- 2 population
- 3 Geography
- 4 Climate
- 5 Education
- 6 Transport
- 7 Photo Gallery
- 8 Notes
History
Van Horn was founded in 1881 as a stopping point on the . It was named for James Judson Van Horn (1834-1898), who commanded a garrison in 1859-1861, whose location ( Van Horn Wells ) was several kilometers south of the future city [2] [3] [4] .
In 1886, the first store, as well as a post office, opened in Van Horn. In 1887, the first school opened, a separate building for which was built in 1893. By 1890, about 450 people lived in the Van Horn area, although in the settlement itself there were only a few dozen residents - about thirty in 1892 and about seventy in 1896 [2] .
At the beginning of the 20th century, the population of Van Horn grew, a number of new buildings were built. Culberson County was founded in 1911 and Van Horn became its district center. In 1912, construction began on the administrative building of the district court, which was completed in 1914. By this time, the population of Van Horn was already about 500 people, in the city there were two mixed goods stores, a hotel, a bank, a pharmacy, a telephone company and a meat market [2] .
By 1927, about 800 people were already living in Van Horn, and in the 1930s the population reached 1,600. This was facilitated by the construction of the US 80 highway (which is currently part of the Interstate 10 ) and the development of road communication, as well as the favorable location of Van Horn as a tourist center - between the mountains of and the Carlsbad caves in the north and the mountains of and the Rio Grande River in the south (where the Big Bend National Park was founded in 1944) [2] .
Van Horn received city rights on September 1, 1945, after which he was elected the first mayor of the city [2] .
Population
| Population census | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Census year | Us. | % ± | |
| 1950 | 1161 | ||
| 1960 | 1953 | 68.2% | |
| 1970 | 2889 | 47.9% | |
| 1980 | 2772 | -four% | |
| 1990 | 2930 | 5.7% | |
| 2000 | 2435 | -16.9% | |
| 2010 | 2063 | -15.3% | |
| 1950-ND Texas Almanac [5] | |||
According to the 2010 census, Van & Horn lived 2063 people [1] and there were 779 households [6] .
Racial Composition:
- 78.0% white
- 0.6% African American
- 1.3% Native Americans
- 1.0% Asians
- 3.1% belonging to two or more races
Age distribution: 28.7% under the age of 18 (of which 7.7% are under 5), 56.7% are between 18 and 64 years old, and 14.6% are over 65 years old. The average age is 37.3 years. For every 100 females there were 93.4 males (that is, 51.7% of females and 48.3% of males) [1] .
Geography
Van Horn is located in western Texas, in the Chihuahua Desert, about 100 km south of the Guadalupe Mountains National Park and 40 km north-east of the nearest border with Mexico .
Climate
| Climate Van Horn [7] | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indicator | Jan | Feb | March | Apr | May | June | July | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Absolute maximum, ° C | 26.7 | 28.9 | 31.7 | 35.6 | 39,4 | 42,2 | 40.6 | 40.6 | 38.3 | 34,4 | 30,0 | 25.6 | 42,2 |
| Average maximum, ° C | 13,4 | 16.3 | 20.6 | 25.7 | 30,2 | 34.3 | 34.1 | 33,2 | 29.8 | 25.0 | 18.3 | 14.1 | 24.6 |
| Average minimum ° C | −3.4 | −1.2 | 2.7 | 8.0 | 12.7 | 17.7 | 19.8 | 18.8 | 15.4 | 8.3 | 1.9 | −1.8 | 8.3 |
| Absolute minimum, ° C | −25 | −12.2 | −12.8 | −5 | −1.1 | 6.7 | 10.0 | 11.7 | 1.7 | −5 | −15.6 | −13.3 | −25 |
| Precipitation rate, mm | eleven | 7 | 3 | 6 | 12 | eighteen | 44 | 47 | 56 | 32 | 7 | 10 | 254 |
| Source: www.weatherbase.com | |||||||||||||
Education
Schools of the city belong to the Culberson County-Allamoore Independent School District Independent School District [8] .
Transport
- Car traffic
- Major Highways Crossing Van Horn:
- Interstate I-10 passes through Van Horn from the west (from El Paso ) to the east, towards Fort Stockton and further to San Antonio .
- US 90 ( Eng. US Highway 90 ) approaches Van Horn from the southeast (from Martha ).
- Texas State Highway 54 is heading north from Van Horn toward the Guadalupe Mountains National Park.
- Major Highways Crossing Van Horn:
Photo Gallery
One of the main streets of Van Horn | Van Horn Post Office | The Three Mile Mountain by Van Horn |
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Van Horn town, Texas (HTML). American FactFinder . US Census Bureau . Date of treatment December 8, 2014.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Martin Donell Kohout . Van Horn, Texas . Handbook of Texas Online . Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved December 4, 2014 .
- ↑ Robin J. Hoffer. History of Van Horn, Texas and Van Horn Wells (PDF). New Mexico Geological Society Handbook - nmgs.nmt.edu (1980). Date of treatment December 4, 2014.
- ↑ Martin Donell Kohout . Van Horn, James Judson . Handbook of Texas Online . Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved December 5, 2014 .
- ↑ Van Horn . Texas Almanac. Date of treatment December 4, 2014.
- ↑ Van Horn town, Texas: Households and families (HTML). American FactFinder . US Census Bureau . Date of treatment December 8, 2014.
- ↑ Van Horn, Texas: Monthly Weather Averages Summary . www.weatherbase.com. Date of treatment December 4, 2014.
- ↑ Culberson County-Allamoore Independent School District . www.ccaisd.net. Date of treatment December 8, 2014.