Texas
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Independent City or Town
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Don’t Know
- Unions, Organized Labor?
- Don’t Know
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Probable
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Surely Not
Census Information
Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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1860 | ||||||||
1870 | ||||||||
1880 | ||||||||
1890 | ||||||||
1900 | ||||||||
1910 | ||||||||
1920 | 4273 | 0 | ||||||
1930 | 13735 | 490 | ||||||
1940 | 12604 | 12047 | 556 | 1 | ||||
1950 | ||||||||
1960 | ||||||||
1970 | 28735 | 26852 | 1518 | |||||
1980 | ||||||||
1990 | ||||||||
2000 | 25233 | 19352 | 339 | 163 | 150 | 11265 | 4229 | 407 |
2010 | ||||||||
2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
There are several oral reports of a sundown sign in Big
Spring until World War II, when an Air Force base was
opened there.