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Carthage is a city in and the county seat of Panola County, Texas, United States. [4] The city is situated in deep East Texas , 20 miles west of the Louisiana state line. Its population was 6,569 at the 2020 census.
Panola County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.As of the 2020 census, its population was 22,491, [1] with its county seat in Carthage. [2] Located in East Texas and originally developed for cotton plantations, the county's name is derived from a Choctaw word for cotton.
Texas rank U.S. rank Metropolitan area Metropolitan division Population (2023 est.) 1 4 Dallas–Fort Worth 8,100,037: 2 5 Houston 7,510,253: 3 24 San Antonio 2,703,999: 4 26 Austin 2,473,275: 5 65 McAllen 898,471: 6 68 El Paso 873,331: 7 110 Killeen-Temple 501,333: 8 121 Corpus Christi 448,323: 9 127 Brownsville-Harlingen 426,710: 10 140
East Texas is within the Black Belt region, the fertile area that was the center of cotton culture and enslaved African-American labor. [11] [12] East Texas has the largest Black population in the state. [13] Unlike Texas's total state racial demographics, only two counties in East Texas outside of Greater Houston's sphere had a majority minority.
A post office was established in 1874 and by 1885, 150 people lived in the community. The population doubled to 300 in the early 1890s before declining in the 1910s. The discovery of oil in the area during the 1920s led to another population boom. By 1929, approximately 250 residents lived in DeBerry. Seven years later, that figure had dipped ...
Texas' population growth between 2000 and 2010 represents the highest population increase, by number of people, for any U.S. state during this time period. At the 2020 United States census it was reported that Texas had a resident population of 29,145,505, [1] a 15.9% increase since the 2010 U.S. census.
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In 1914 the population reached 750. In 1917 a fire destroyed a part of the business district. Beckville was incorporated by 1929, when it had a population of nearly 880. A drought in 1927 and the onset of the Great Depression, however, halted the town's growth. By the mid-1930s the population had dropped to 453, and many businesses were closed.