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Waller County
; Waller County, Texas;
	; The Waller County Courthouse in Hempstead;
	; ; Location in the U.S. state of Texas;
	; ; Texas's location in the U.S.;
Founded	1873
Named for	Edwin Waller
Seat	Hempstead
Largest city	Hempstead
Area
• Total	518 sq mi (1,342 km2)
• Land	513 sq mi (1,329 km2)
• Water	4.4 sq mi (11 km2), 0.8%
Population
• (2010)	43,205
• Density	84/sq mi (32/km2)
Congressional district	10th
Time zone	; Central: UTC−6/−5;
Website	www.co.waller.tx.us

Waller County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 43,205.^[1] Its county seat is Hempstead.^[2] The county was named for Edwin Waller, a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence and first mayor of Austin.

Waller County is included in the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is a majority-white county, and home of the HBCU Prairie View A&M University.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 518 square miles (1,340 km²), of which 513 square miles (1,330 km²) are land and 4.4 square miles (11 km²) (0.8%) are covered by water.^[3]

Adjacent counties

Grimes County (north)

Montgomery County (northeast)

Harris County (east)

Fort Bend County (south)

Austin County (west)

Washington County (northwest)

Demographics

Historical population
Census	Pop.		%±
1880	9,024		—
1890	10,888		20.7%
1900	14,246		30.8%
1910	12,138		−14.8%
1920	10,292		−15.2%
1930	10,014		−2.7%
1940	10,280		2.7%
1950	11,961		16.4%
1960	12,071		0.9%
1970	14,285		18.3%
1980	19,798		38.6%
1990	23,390		18.1%
2000	32,663		39.6%
2010	43,205		32.3%
Est. 2016	50,115	^[4]	16.0%
U.S. Decennial Census^[5] 1850–2010^[6] 2010–2014^[1]

As of the 2000 Census,^[7] 32,663 people, 10,557 households, and 7,748 families resided in the county. The population density was 64 people per square mile (25/km²). The 11,955 housing units averaged 23 per square mile (9/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 57.83% White, 29.25% Black or African American, 0.49% Native American, 0.38% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 10.28% from other races, and 1.76% from two or more races. About 19.42% of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Of the 10,557 households, 35.10% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 55.70% were married couples living together, 13.00% had a female householder with no husband present, and 26.60% were not families. About 21.00% of all households were made up of individuals, and 7.50% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.79 and the average family size was 3.25.

In the county, the population was distributed as 25.70% under the age of 18, 18.10% from 18 to 24, 26.40% from 25 to 44, 20.50% from 45 to 64, and 9.40% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 30 years. For every 100 females, there were 98.70 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 96.10 males.

The median income for a household in the county was $38,136, and for a family was $45,868. Males had a median income of $34,447 versus $25,583 for females. The per capita income for the county was $16,338. About 11.50% of families and 16.00% of the population were below the poverty line, including 20.00% of those under age 18 and 12.30% of those age 65 or over.

Economy

Igloo Corporation, a manufacturer of cooling and portable refrigeration products, is headquartered in unincorporated Waller County between Brookshire and Katy.^[8] In 2004, Igloo announced that it was consolidating its corporate, distribution, and manufacturing operations in Waller County.^[9]

Goya Foods has its Texas offices in an unincorporated area of the county near Brookshire.^[10]

Politics

Presidential elections results

**Presidential elections results**^[11]
Year	Republican	Democratic	Third parties
2016	62.7% 10,531	34.3% 5,748	3.0% 505
2012	58.1% 9,244	41.0% 6,514	0.9% 144
2008	53.3% 8,265	46.1% 7,153	0.6% 90
2004	55.3% 7,679	44.3% 6,145	0.4% 57
2000	52.4% 5,686	46.5% 5,046	1.2% 126
1996	41.3% 3,559	52.6% 4,535	6.1% 528
1992	33.8% 3,065	47.1% 4,270	19.0% 1,723
1988	47.3% 3,607	51.9% 3,957	0.8% 60
1984	51.7% 4,116	48.1% 3,828	0.2% 19
1980	46.7% 3,019	51.5% 3,329	1.8% 115
1976	41.0% 1,992	58.2% 2,828	0.9% 42
1972	59.0% 2,263	40.1% 1,538	1.0% 38
1968	27.9% 958	49.0% 1,684	23.2% 797
1964	31.1% 980	68.8% 2,167	0.1% 2
1960	49.2% 1,115	48.6% 1,101	2.3% 51
1956	59.5% 1,426	38.8% 929	1.8% 42
1952	54.0% 1,487	45.9% 1,264	0.1% 2
1948	27.4% 448	49.7% 812	22.9% 374
1944	13.2% 190	70.1% 1,007	16.6% 239
1940	22.0% 300	78.0% 1,065	0.1% 1
1936	11.1% 111	88.7% 889	0.2% 2
1932	6.9% 89	92.9% 1,192	0.2% 2
1928	42.7% 376	57.2% 504	0.1% 1
1924	13.9% 203	84.8% 1,239	1.3% 19
1920	13.4% 167	53.9% 674	32.7% 409
1916	22.0% 182	77.0% 636	1.0% 8
1912	16.8% 144	69.2% 594	14.0% 120

United States Congress

Senators		Name	Party	First Elected	Level
	Senate Class 1	John Cornyn	Republican	2002	Senior Senator
	Senate Class 2	Ted Cruz	Republican	2013	Junior Senator
Representatives		Name	Party	First Elected	Area(s) of Waller County Represented
	District 10	Michael McCaul	Republican	2004	Entire county

Texas Legislature

Texas Senate

District 18: Lois Kolkhorst (R)- first elected in 2014.

Texas House of Representatives

District 28: John Zerwas (R)- first elected in 2006.

Voting controversies

A history of controversies exists regarding the reluctance of county officials to allow students attending historically black Prairie View A&M University to vote in Waller County.^[12]^[13][1]

As reported by the US District Court (Southern District of Texas, Corpus Christi Division) in Veasey v Perry, October 2014 (CIVIL ACTION NO. 13-CV-00193), pp 6–7 verbatim:

In 1971, after the 26th Amendment extended the vote to those 18 years old and older, Waller County, which was home to Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU), a historically Black university, became troubled with race issues. Waller County's tax assessor and voter registrar prohibited students from voting unless they or their families owned property in the county. This practice was ended by a three-judge court in 1979.

In 1992, a county prosecutor indicted PVAMU students for illegally voting, but dropped the charges after receiving a protest from the DOJ.

In 2003, a PVAMU student ran for the commissioner's court. The local district attorney and county attorney threatened to prosecute students for voter fraud—for not meeting the old domicile test. These threatened prosecutions were enjoined, but Waller County then reduced early voting hours, which was particularly harmful to students because the election day was during their spring break. After the NAACP filed suit, Waller County reversed the changes to early voting and the student narrowly won the election.

In 2007-08, during then Senator Barack Obama's campaign for president, Waller County made a number of voting changes without seeking clearance. The county rejected “incomplete” voter registrations and required volunteer deputy registrars (VDRs) to personally find and notify the voters of the rejection. The county also limited the number of new registrations any VDR could submit, thus limiting the success of voter registration drives. These practices were eventually prohibited by a consent decree.

In 2018 (October 10) Jacob Aronowitz, a field director for Democratic U.S. House candidate Mike Siegel, delivered a letter from Siegel, which indicated a solution to attempts to keep students at Prairie View A&M University from voting, to a clerk on the county executive's staff. As a result, Aronowitz was arrested for what he was told was "48 hour investigative detention". It appears the arrest was due to his being a Democrat. ^[14]

Education

School districts serving Waller County include:

Hempstead Independent School District

Royal Independent School District

Katy Independent School District (portions of the district are in other counties)

Waller Independent School District (portions of the district are in other counties)

Brazos Valley Sudbury School was previously in operation in Waller County.

Prairie View A&M University is the only university located within the county.

Transportation

Houston Executive Airport

Major highways

Interstate 10

U.S. Highway 90

U.S. Highway 290

State Highway 6

The TTC-69 component (recommended preferred) of the once-planned Trans-Texas Corridor went through Waller County.^[15]

Airports

Houston Executive Airport is located between Brookshire and Katy in an unincorporated area. Skydive Houston Airport (Skylake Airport) is located south of Waller in an unincorporated area.

The Houston Airport System stated that Waller County is within the primary service area of George Bush Intercontinental Airport, an international airport in Houston in Harris County.^[16] In addition William P. Hobby Airport in Houston and in Harris County has commercial airline service.^{[citation needed]}

Media

The Waller Times publishes local community news, school news, and sports news weekly on Mondays.^[17] It was founded in 1991 and is still family owned and operated.

Communities

Cities

Brookshire

Hempstead (county seat)

Katy (partly in Harris and Fort Bend Counties)

Pattison

Prairie View

Waller (partly in Harris County)

Town

Pine Island

Unincorporated areas

Fields Store

Monaville

Second Corinth

Shiloh

Sunny Side

References

^ ^a^b "State & County QuickFacts". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved December 29, 2013..mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em

^ "Find a County". National Association of Counties. Retrieved 2011-06-07.

^ "2010 Census Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. August 22, 2012. Retrieved May 12, 2015.

^ "Population and Housing Unit Estimates". Retrieved June 9, 2017.

^ "U.S. Decennial Census". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved May 12, 2015.

^ "Texas Almanac: Population History of Counties from 1850–2010" (PDF). Texas Almanac. Retrieved May 12, 2015.

^ "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2011-05-14.

^ "Igloo Worldwide Headquarters Archived 2010-04-21 at the Wayback Machine.." Igloo Corporation. Accessed September 5, 2008. "Igloo Products Corp. 777 Igloo Road Katy, Texas 77494"

^ "Igloo consolidating operations in Katy facility." Houston Business Journal. Monday October 18, 2004. Retrieved on March 2, 2011. "1001 W. Sam Houston Parkway North" for the old Houston facility

^ "Contact Us." Goya Foods. Retrieved on March 26, 2016. "Goya Foods of Texas 30602 McAllister Road Brookshire, TX 77423"

^ "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections".

^ "2 Voter Rights Cases, One Gripping a College Town, Stir Texas" by Ralph Blumenthal, New York Times, May 28, 2008

^ "Judges slap Waller voter rules, give hand to Prairie View" by Cindy George, Houston Chronicle October 24, 2008

^ "Texas cops arrest Democratic campaign worker after asking his candidate's party affiliation". 2018-10-11.

^ TxDoT, TTC Section C & S, Detailed Map 1, 2007-12-17 Archived 2009-02-07 at the Wayback Machine.

^ "Master Plan Executive Summary." George Bush Intercontinental Airport Master Plan. Houston Airport System. December 2006. 2-1 (23/130). Retrieved on December 14, 2010.

^ McLemee, Scott (February 6, 2004). "Justice Department to Look Into Alleged Threat to Students' Voting Rights", The Chronicle of Higher Education 50 (22): A30.

External links

Waller County government's website

Waller County from the Handbook of Texas Online

The Waller Times official website

Coordinates: 30°01′N 95°59′W / 30.01°N 95.98°W / 30.01; -95.98

[QF-1] "State & County QuickFacts". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved December 29, 2013..mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em

[GR6-2] "Find a County". National Association of Counties. Retrieved 2011-06-07.

[GR1-3] "2010 Census Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. August 22, 2012. Retrieved May 12, 2015.

[USCensusEst2016-4] "Population and Housing Unit Estimates". Retrieved June 9, 2017.

[5] "U.S. Decennial Census". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved May 12, 2015.

[6] "Texas Almanac: Population History of Counties from 1850–2010" (PDF). Texas Almanac. Retrieved May 12, 2015.

[GR8-7] "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2011-05-14.

[8] "Igloo Worldwide Headquarters Archived 2010-04-21 at the Wayback Machine.." Igloo Corporation. Accessed September 5, 2008. "Igloo Products Corp. 777 Igloo Road Katy, Texas 77494"

[HQ-9] "Igloo consolidating operations in Katy facility." Houston Business Journal. Monday October 18, 2004. Retrieved on March 2, 2011. "1001 W. Sam Houston Parkway North" for the old Houston facility

[10] "Contact Us." Goya Foods. Retrieved on March 26, 2016. "Goya Foods of Texas 30602 McAllister Road Brookshire, TX 77423"

[11] "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections".

[12] "2 Voter Rights Cases, One Gripping a College Town, Stir Texas" by Ralph Blumenthal, New York Times, May 28, 2008

[13] "Judges slap Waller voter rules, give hand to Prairie View" by Cindy George, Houston Chronicle October 24, 2008

[14] "Texas cops arrest Democratic campaign worker after asking his candidate's party affiliation". 2018-10-11.

[15] TxDoT, TTC Section C & S, Detailed Map 1, 2007-12-17 Archived 2009-02-07 at the Wayback Machine.

[16] "Master Plan Executive Summary." George Bush Intercontinental Airport Master Plan. Houston Airport System. December 2006. 2-1 (23/130). Retrieved on December 14, 2010.

[17] McLemee, Scott (February 6, 2004). "Justice Department to Look Into Alleged Threat to Students' Voting Rights", The Chronicle of Higher Education 50 (22): A30.

v t e Municipalities and communities of Waller County, Texas, United States
County seat: Hempstead
Cities	Brookshire Hempstead Katy‡ Pattison Prairie View Waller‡
Town	Pine Island
Unincorporated communities	Fields Store Monaville Second Corinth Shiloh Sunny Side
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

v t e Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land
Counties	Austin Brazoria Chambers Fort Bend Galveston Harris Liberty Montgomery Waller
"Principal" cities	Houston The Woodlands Sugar Land Baytown Conroe
Other cities	Alvin Angleton Bellaire Clute Deer Park Dickinson Freeport Friendswood Galena Park Galveston Humble Jacinto City Katy Lake Jackson La Marque La Porte League City Manvel Missouri City Pasadena Pearland Richmond Rosenberg South Houston Stafford Texas City West University Place For a complete listing, see list of cities and towns in Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land MSA
Unincorporated areas	Atascocita Channelview Cloverleaf Crosby Cypress Fresno Hockley Klein Port Bolivar Spring The Woodlands
Bodies of water	Buffalo Bayou Galveston Bay Gulf Intracoastal Waterway Houston Ship Channel San Jacinto River Trinity River Lake Houston Lake Conroe

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