Silsbee, Texas Silsbee, Texas.
Location of Silsbee, Texas Location of Silsbee, Texas Silsbee is a town/city in Hardin County, Texas, United States.
The populace was 6,611 at the 2010 census.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 7.5 square miles (19 km2), all land.
Silsbee was first referred to as Mill Town when the site was first reached by the Gulf, Beaumont, and Kansas City Railway in 1894.
The town was retitled in recognition of Nathaniel Silsbee, an shareholder from Boston, Massachusetts who helped furnish funds for the stockyards . The barns was a universal of John Henry Kirby who would soon establish the Kirby Lumber Company in the city.
This company would be the chief employer and strength of the Silsbee economy from the city's beginning. As of the census of 2010, there were 6,611 citizens , 2,520 homeholds, and 1,763 families residing in the city.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 65.8% White, 30.3% African American, 0.4% Native American, 0.6% Asian, 0.015% Pacific Islander, 1.4% from other competitions, and 01.5% from two or more competitions.
There were 2,520 homeholds out of which 30.8% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 47.1% were married couples living together, 18.4% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 30.0% were non-families.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 25.7% under the age of 18, 8.2% from 19 to 24, 23.1% from 25 to 44, 25.6% from 45 to 64, and 17.4% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $49,121, and the median income for a family was $51,518.
The City of Silsbee is served by the Silsbee Independent School District, with a total of 5 schools The John Henry Kirby Elementary School (Pre K-1), The Read-Turrentine Elementary School (2-3), The Laura Reeves Elementary (4-5), The Edwards-Johnson Memorial Silsbee Middle School (6-8), and Silsbee High School.
Handbook of Texas Online, Handbook of Texas Online, accessed May 5, 2007 Houstonian founds Silsbee because of natural resources, access May 5, 2007 "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Silsbee, Texas City of Silsbee Municipalities and communities of Hardin County, Texas, United States This populated place also has portions in an adjoining county or counties
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Cities in Texas - Cities in Hardin County, Texas - Beaumont Port Arthur urbane region - Logging communities in the United States - 1894 establishments in Texas
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