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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | ||||||||
| 1870 | ||||||||
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| 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.