Cottle County, Texas

Founding: 1892 (declared in 1876)
Parent county: Unorganized territory
Namesake: George Cottle, early Texas resident
Seat: Paducah (1892–)
Land area: 901 square miles
Population (2020): 1,380
Population (historic): 240 (1890); 4,396 (1910); 9,395 (1930)
Periods of population growth: 1890–1930
Subdivisions: One town
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 236 (22.5%)
Pre-1940 housing survival rate: 13.5%

Farm housing in disrepair (1950): 28.8%

Nonfarm housing in disrepair (1950): 17.8%

Average farmhouse value (1930): $1,033
Average outbuilding value (1930): $589

Average farmhouse size (1940): 3.1 rooms

Number of farms (1920): 686
Average farm size (1920): 145.5 acres
Sources of settlement: Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Alabama, and Georgia
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Paducah

 
Namesake: Paducah, Kentucky
Founding: circa 1890 (platting); 1891 (post office); 1910 (incorporation)
Population (2020): 1,063
Population (historic): 1,350 (1910); 1,357 (1920); 2,802 (1930)
Periods of population growth: 1891–1930; 1940s; 1970s
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 186 (24.7%)
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