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<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 />I <br />I <br />I <br /> <br />002257 <br /> <br />Coun ty <br />Lubbock <br />Hale <br />Hockley <br />Lamb <br />Terry <br />Floyd <br />Crosby <br />Lynn <br />Garza <br /> <br />Population <br />1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 <br />~ <br /> <br />293 3,624 11,096 39,104 51,782 <br />1.680 7,566 10,104 20,189 18,813 <br />44 137 137 9,298 12,693 <br />31 540 1,175 17,452 17,606 <br />48 1,474 2,236 8,883 11.160 <br />2,020 4,638 9,758 12,409 10,659 <br />788 1,765 6,084 11,023 10,046 <br />17 1,713 4,751 12,372 11,931 <br />185 1.995 4,253 5,486 5.678 <br />5,106 23.452 49,594 136,316 150,368 <br /> <br />Totals <br /> <br />Source: Texas Almanac, 197-1979 Edition. <br />From the turn of the century the major growth has taken place <br />in Lubbock County, the trade center and cultural hub of west central <br />Texas, In outlying smaller communities. the population growth rate <br />was rapid from 1900 to 1920, the great farm development period, but <br />moderated in the decade 1930-1940 and actually declined in half the <br />county areas. Nevertheless, the entire region grew at twice the <br />rate of the State in the 1920-1940 decades, the period of greatest <br />railroad develonl'lent in "estern Texas. But concentration had <br />already begun, as 90 percent of growth from 1930 to 1940 took place <br />in Lubbock County -- and mos t of that in the City of Lubbock. <br />This brief profile of the dry1and agricultural economic and <br />social trends in the South Plains in roughly the first half of this <br /> <br />IV-15 <br /> <br />Arthur D Little, Inc <br />