Clint, Texas Clint, Texas Clint is a town in El Paso County, Texas, United States.
The populace was 926 at the 2010 census. It is part of the El Paso Metropolitan Statistical Area.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 2.0 square miles (5.2 km2), of which 2.0 square miles (5.2 km2) is territory and 0.51% is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 980 citizens , 308 homeholds, and 255 families residing in the town.
There were 308 homeholds out of which 35.4% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 64.6% were married couples living together, 14.3% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 16.9% were non-families.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 26.5% under the age of 18, 10.5% from 18 to 24, 23.3% from 25 to 44, 26.5% from 45 to 64, and 13.2% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town was $34,000, and the median income for a family was $36,635.
About 16.6% of families and 20.0% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 25.6% of those under age 18 and 16.8% of those age 65 or over.
The Town of Clint is served by the Clint Independent School District.
It is zoned to Clint High School, Clint Junior High School, and Surratt Elementary School, all positioned in Clint.
Clint Early College High School, which serves the Clint Independent School District, is also positioned in Clint.
Clint, also known as Collinsburgh, is on the Southern Pacific Railroad at the intersection of State Highway 20 and Farm Road 1110, sixteen miles southeast of downtown El Paso in southern El Paso County.
For a several years after the establishment of the Clint postal service in 1886, the settlement was identified as the San Elizario station on the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway.
In 1890 the estimated populace of Clint was 100, and the town had a general store, a meat "Market", a fruit grower, and a hotel.
An estimated 600 inhabitants lived at Clint in the late 1920s, but the number declined to 250 by the mid-1930s.
Heinlein story The Year of the Jackpot, presented in 1952, Clint is the home of a messianic cult that arises after the collapse of America.
Clint was mentioned in the 1957 autobiographical novel On the Road by American novelist Jack Kerouac as the mailing address of XELO, a airways broadcast based in Ciudad Juarez.
Clint, Texas, was also mentioned in Johnny Cash's 1966 song "Red River Valley" from the album Everybody Loves a Nut, in which Cash repeatedly states that he bought his first harmonica for $2.98 in Clint.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Clint town, Texas".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
Municipalities and communities of El Paso County, Texas, United States
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