Carthage, Texas

Carthage, Texas
City
The historic Hawthorn-Clabaugh-Patterson House is now the location of the Carthage Chamber of Commerce.
Location of Carthage, Texas
Country	United States
State	Texas
County	Panola
Area
• Total	10.5 sq mi (27.3 km2)
• Land	10.5 sq mi (27.2 km2)
• Water	0.0 sq mi (0.1 km2)
Elevation	312 ft (95 m)
Population  (2000)
• Total	6,664
• Density	633.8/sq mi (244.7/km2)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP code	75633
Area code	903
FIPS code	48-13108Template:GR
GNIS feature ID	1353900Template:GR

Carthage is a city in Panola County, Texas, United States. The population was 6,664 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Panola CountyTemplate:GR, and is situated in East Texas near the Louisiana state line.

According to the United States Census Bureau, Carthage has a total area of 10.5 square miles (27.3 km²), of which, 10.5 square miles (27.2 km²) of it is land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km²) of it (14.2%) is water.

As of the censusTemplate:GR of 2000, there were 6,664 people, 2,598 households, and 1,771 families residing in the city. The population density was 633.8 people per square mile (244.8/km²). There were 2,931 housing units at an average density of 278.7 per square mile (107.7/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 74.65% White, 21.02% African American, 0.47% Native American, 0.59% Asian, 1.98% from other races, and 1.29% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 4.35% of the population.

There were 2,598 households out of which 32.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 49.9% were married couples living together, 15.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 31.8% were non-families. 29.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 15.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.43 and the average family size was 3.00.

In the city the population was spread out with 25.3% under the age of 18, 10.9% from 18 to 24, 24.7% from 25 to 44, 20.9% from 45 to 64, and 18.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females there were 80.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 74.8 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $31,822, and the median income for a family was $37,031. Males had a median income of $33,080 versus $21,473 for females. The per capita income for the city was $16,332. About 11.8% of families and 13.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 15.2% of those under age 18 and 12.9% of those age 65 or over.

The City of Carthage is served by the Carthage Independent School District.

There is also the two-year Panola College, a community college located across from Carthage City Hall.

The Texas Country Music Hall of Fame is located in Carthage, which also houses the Tex Ritter museum. The Jim Reeves Memorial is located just on the outskirts of Carthage, east on U.S. 79. Reeves and Ritter were from the near-by unincorporated communities of Galloway and Murvaul, respectively.

The old Panola County Jail Museum is located on North Shelby Street.

Panola County Heritage Museum is located at 100 East Sabine Street across from the gazebo in downtown Anderson Park.

Lake Murvaul is fifteen miles west of Carthage on Murvaul Bayou.

KGAS 104.3 FM Radio Station

• Linda Davis, singer
• Philip Humber, MLB Pitcher with Chicago White Sox
• Michael Montgomery, NFL player for the Green Bay Packers
• Drew Nixon, former Republican member of the Texas State Senate, whose career (1995–2001) was cut short by a sex scandal.^[1]
• Bill O'Neal, historian of the American West, Country music, and baseball
• Perfect Stranger, a 1990s country band
• Jim Reeves, singer
• Tex Ritter, singer
• Brandon Rhyder, singer
• Mildred Fay Jefferson, First African-American women to graduate from Harvard Medical School, founding member and former President of the National Right to Life Committee

• Carthage, Texas
• The Carthage_TX community on LiveJournal.com
• The 1997 Nugent murder