Pecos, Texas
Pecos, Texas Storefronts in downtown Pecos Storefronts in downtown Pecos Location of Pecos, Texas Location of Pecos, Texas State Texas Pecos (/ pe k s/ pay-k s) is the biggest city in and the governmental center of county of Reeves County, Texas, United States. It is in the valley on the west bank of the Pecos River at the easterly edge of the Chihuahuan Desert, in the Trans-Pecos region of west Texas and just below New Mexico's border.
On January 24, 2012, Pecos City appeared on the Forbes 400 as the second fastest-growing small town in the United States. The town/city is a county-wide commercial center for ranching, petroleum and gas manufacturing and agriculture.
The town/city is most recognized for its association with the small-town cultivation of cantaloupes. Pecos claims to be the site of the world's first rodeo on July 4, 1883. Signpost in Pecos Water fortress and an old church in Pecos, Texas Pecos is one of the various suburbs in West Texas organized around a train depot amid the assembly of the Texas and Pacific Railway.
Prior to the arrival of the barns , a permanent camp existed close-by where cattle drives crossed the Pecos River.
In 1962 Pecos resident and tycoon Billie Sol Estes was indicted for fraud by a federal grand jury.
Of the Pecos Independent and Enterprise journal won a Pulitzer Prize for breaking the story.
Pecos is the site of the biggest private prison in the world, the Reeves County Detention Complex, directed by the GEO Group. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 7.3 square miles (19 km2), all of it land.
As of the census of 2000, there were 9,501 citizens , 3,168 homeholds, and 2,455 families residing in the city.
There were 3,168 homeholds out of which 39.9% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 59.0% were married couples living together, 14.9% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 22.5% were non-families.
The average homehold size was 2.97 and the average family size was 3.47.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 32.5% under the age of 18, 8.7% from 18 to 24, 24.2% from 25 to 44, 21.7% from 45 to 64, and 13.0% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $24,943, and the median income for a family was $26,376.
About 23.4% of families and 27.1% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 36.0% of those under age 18 and 15.6% of those age 65 or over.
The City of Pecos is served by the Pecos-Barstow-Toyah Independent School District, which presently has five schools: Pecos Kindergarten Pecos High School - 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th undertaking Pecos experiences a desert climate with hot summers and mild winters.
Pecos' aridity results in a substantial diurnal temperature variation, resulting in cool evenings even after hot summer days.
Climate data for Pecos, Texas Roger Mobley, later child actor, resided in Pecos in the 1950s.
Paul Patterson, author spent his later years in both Pecos and Crane, Texas.
"Pecos, Texas (TX 79772) profile: population, maps, real estate, averages, homes, statistics, relocation, travel, jobs, hospitals, schools, crime, moving, homes, news, sex offenders".
Pecos Cantaloupe Industry SULFUR INDUSTRY from the Handbook of Texas Online "Billie Sol Estes, Texas Con Man Whose Fall Shook Up Washington, Dies at 88".
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"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Population estimates, July 1, 2015, (V2015)".
"Weatherbase: Weather for Pecos, Texas".
"Pulitzer Prize Awardees - The University of Texas at Austin".
Pecos, Texas - Official Site Pecos, Texas from the Handbook of Texas Online Pecos Area Chamber of Commerce Municipalities and communities of Reeves County, Texas, United States State of Texas County seats of Texas
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