Jasper, Texas
Jasper, Texas Downtown Jasper from corner of Lamar and Zavalla Downtown Jasper from corner of Lamar and Zavalla Location of Jasper, Texas Location of Jasper, Texas County Jasper Jasper is a town/city and the governmental center of county of Jasper County, Texas, in the United States.
Jasper is situated in the Deep East Texas subregion, about 130 miles (210 km) northeast of Houston.
Jasper (the "Butterfly Capital of Texas") holds an annual Butterfly Festival the first Saturday in October to jubilate the migration of the monarch butterflies.
The Jasper County Courthouse In 1835, the town was retitled after William Jasper, a war hero from the American Revolution, who was killed attempting to plant the American flag at the storming of Savannah in 1779. Jasper was one of the 23 initial counties when the Republic of Texas was created in 1836. Jasper became the governmental center of county in 1844, becoming part of the United States with the Texas annexation in 1845.
Jasper was a Confederate Army command posts for a nine-county area.
Following the war, Union troops led by General George Custer occupied Jasper, camping in the town square. The only known soldier of the American Revolution to be buried in Texas was Jasper resident Stephen Williams, in whose honor a marker has been placed on the courthouse lawn.
Educational establishments encompassed the Jasper Male and Female High School, which directed until 1878, when it became the Southeast Texas Male and Female College, and Jasper Collegiate Institute, which directed from 1851 until 1874.
In 1896, Jasper had a populace of 1,200.
With the arrival of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway early in the 20th century, Jasper interval into a center for the manufacture of timber products.
Jasper served as command posts for the Lower Neches Valley Authority's assembly program, including Dam "B" at Town Bluff and engineering and surveying for a dam at Magee Bend on the Angelina River.
Jasper also became the command posts of the Morgan and Lindsey chain of range stores (otherwise known as dimestores), which at one time directed 85 outlets in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.
Catapulted Jasper into nationwide news and led to the creation of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr.
In 2000, Jasper had 8,247 inhabitants and around 250 businesses. Jasper was also one of the major locations for the recovery of the Space Shuttle Columbia wreckage in February 2003.
Jasper was greatly affected by Hurricane Rita on September 25, 2005, as it moved inland.
The Jasper Arboretum Project began in 2000 and the Outdoor Learning Center was added in 2012 to problematic 14 acres of enhance plant nurseries, walking trails, a master gardener arboretum, and a nature classroom. In 2012, Jasper returned to nationwide attention amid a bitterly fought political feud over the hiring and firing of Jasper's first black police chief, Rodney Pearson. In order to fire Pearson, two Black town/city council members were recalled in the narrowly divided city. Free of Voting Rights Act preclearance requirements, Jasper is moving to annex largely white suburbs. The feud highlighted Jasper's persistent struggle with racism through its troubled history According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 10.4 square miles (27 km2), of which 10.3 square miles (27 km2) of it is territory and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2) of it (0.58%) is veiled by water.
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The primary ethnic and ethnic groups in the city, as a percentage of the total town/city population, were: 44.2% non-Hispanic African American; 41.9% non-Hispanic White; 10.8% Hispanic or Latino of any race; and 1.5% Asian, with the remaining 1.6% mainly consisting of non-Hispanics of two or more competitions.
The Hispanic or Latino populace was subdivided (as a percentage of total town/city population) into 5.9% other competitions, 3.9% White, 0.8% African American, and 1.1% in other categories, mainly two or more competitions.
In the city, the populace was distributed as 29.4% under the age of 18, 8.3% from 18 to 24, 22.8% from 25 to 44, 24.3% from 45 to 64, and 15.2% who were 65 years of age or older.
Jasper is administered by a town/city council of six members.
Sam Rayburn Reservoir, about 9 miles north of Jasper, is visited by thousands of vacationers each year; it is the biggest lake wholly inside the state of Texas.
Toledo Bend Reservoir is positioned a several miles east of Jasper.
The town/city is served by Jasper Independent School District and Vista Academy of Jasper.
A weekly newspaper, the Jasper Newsboy, has been presented continuously since 1865.
Roger Mobley, a pastor in Jasper, was a child actor in the 1950s and 1960s.
"Official Website of Jasper Texas".
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TSHA Online Texas State Historical Association "Profile for Jasper, Texas, TX".
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Jasper city, Texas Population Finder American Fact - Finder Jasper Agri - Life Extension Service.
"In Jasper, Texas, Racial Tensions Flare Again".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
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