Pottsboro, Texas Pottsboro, Texas Location of Pottsboro, Texas Location of Pottsboro, Texas Pottsboro is a town in Grayson County, Texas, United States.
The populace was 2,160 at the 2010 census, up from 1,579 at the 2000 census.
Pottsboro is positioned in northern Grayson County at 33 46 54 N 96 40 34 W. Texas State Highway 289 passes through the west side of the town, dominant south 10 miles (16 km) to Southmayd and north 10 miles to a dead end at Preston on Lake Texoma.
Denison is 8 miles (13 km) east of Pottsboro via Farm Road 120, and Sherman, the county seat, is 12 miles (19 km) to the southeast.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Pottsboro has a total region of 2.9 square miles (7.4 km2), all of it land. Potts, a pioneer settler who donated territory for a town and a right-of-way so that the Missouri Kansas Texas Railroad would extend its tracks westward from Denison to his settlement.
Pottsboro declined to a populace of 358 by 1936 and 312 by the mid-1940s.
By 1967 Pottsboro reported thirty businesses and a populace of 750, and by 1990 its populace was 1,177.
As of the census of 2000, there were 1,579 citizens , 586 homeholds, and 454 families residing in the town.
The populace density was 554.3 citizens per square mile (213.9/km ).
There were 586 homeholds out of which 43.5% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 57.3% were married couples living together, 16.0% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 22.5% were non-families.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 31.4% under the age of 18, 6.6% from 18 to 24, 31.0% from 25 to 44, 21.6% from 45 to 64, and 9.4% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town was $43,977, and the median income for a family was $49,643.
About 6.9% of families and 8.2% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 10.7% of those under age 18 and 10.4% of those age 65 or over.
The town is served by the Pottsboro Independent School District.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Pottsboro town, Texas".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
Municipalities and communities of Grayson County, Texas, United States This populated place also has portions in an adjoining county or counties
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