Vidor, Texas
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Vidor (/ va d r/ vye-d r) is a town/city in Orange County, Texas, United States.
A town/city of Southeast Texas, it lies at the intersection of Interstate 10 and Farm to Market Road 105, six miles east of Beaumont.
The region was heavily logged after the assembly of the Texarkana and Fort Smith Railway that was later part of a line that ran from Kansas City to Port Arthur, Texas.
The town/city was titled after lumberman Charles Shelton Vidor, owner of the Miller-Vidor Lumber Company and father of director King Vidor.
By 1909 the Vidor improve had a postal service and four years later a business tram road was built.
Almost all Vidor inhabitants worked for the company.
In 1924 the Miller-Vidor Lumber Company moved to Lakeview, just north of Vidor, in search of virgin timber.
Vidor was known as a "sundown town," where African Americans were not allowed after sunset; it was long considered a haven for the Ku Klux Klan.
Federal government attempted to bring African Americans into Vidor's enhance housing, the Klan held a march in the community, prompting African American families to move out inside a matter of months. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 10.6 square miles (27 km2), of which, 10.6 square miles (27 km2) of it is territory and 0.09% is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 11,440 citizens , 4,222 homeholds, and 3,158 families residing in the city.
There were 4,222 homeholds out of which 34.7% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 56.3% were married couples living together, 13.4% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 25.2% were non-families.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 26.7% under the age of 18, 9.9% from 18 to 24, 27.4% from 25 to 44, 21.9% from 45 to 64, and 14.1% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $31,982, and the median income for a family was $37,572.
The City of Vidor is served by the Vidor Independent School District, which is the biggest school precinct in the county.
"Texas town/city haunted by 'no blacks after dark' past".
City of Vidor - Official site.
Vidor, Texas from the Handbook of Texas Online Municipalities and communities of Orange County, Texas, United States Bridge City Orange Pine Forest Pinehurst Port Arthur Rose City Vidor West Orange
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Cities in Orange County, Texas - Cities in Texas - Cities in the Beaumont Port Arthur urbane region - Racism in the United States
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