Laserfiche WebLink
<br /> PQQ.ulation <br />City IT own 1920 1940 <br />Lubbock 4,051 31,853 <br />Plainview 3,989 8.263 <br />Brownfield 4,009 <br />Littlefield 3,871 <br />Slaton 1,523 3,587 <br />Levelland 3.091 <br /> <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />. <br />- <br /> <br />Lubbock area since its foundino in 1925, <br />A bri ef sumlla ry of demographi c trends revea 1 s the nature of <br /> <br />the area's growth during the decades before full-scale irrigated <br /> <br />agricultural and agri-business development. The remarkable rural <br /> <br />character of the nine counties is evident from the small population <br /> <br />of what are now (1981) its main urban centers. These were the six <br /> <br />largest communities in 1940: <br /> <br />Source: Texas Almanac, 1978-1979 Edition <br />County populations over the period from settlement days are <br />even more revealing of the pace of growth. showing particularly the <br />unusual influx of inhnbitnnts -- often immi~rants co~in~ directly from <br />foreign lands -- during the great railroad-building era of 1910 to <br />1930 and the coincident era of agricultural prosperity; <br /> <br />IV-14 <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Arthur D Litlle.lnc I <br />