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San Angelo, Texas, USA
San Angelo, Texas is located at
31°27′11″N,
100°27′9″W
(31.453113, -100.452502)GR1.
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San Angelo is a city in and the county seat of Tom Green County, Texas,
United States. It is also the principal city of the "San Angelo, Texas
Metropolitan Statistical Area" that includes all of Irion and Tom Green county.
As of the 2000 census, San Angelo had a total population of 88,439.
The city is located at the confluence of the North Concho River and South Concho
River, which in turn form the Concho River, a tributary of the Colorado River
(in Texas, not to be confused with the Colorado River in Colorado and Arizona).
San Angelo is also home to the Fort Concho National Historic Landmark. During
the late 19th century, it was the headquarters of the 10th Cavalry, which was
made up mainly of "buffalo soldiers." A yearly Christmas festival called
"Christmas at Old Fort Concho" is held at the fort today.
Local sports teams include the San Angelo Colts, a United League Baseball minor
league team; as well as the San Angelo Stampede Express, a minor league indoor
football team.
Goodfellow Air Force Base is also located at the city's outskirts. The primary
tasks of the units stationed there are intelligence specializing in linguistics
training and firefighter training.
Mathis Field (also known as San Angelo Regional Airport) is the commercial
airport serving the city.
San Angelo's main newspaper is the San Angelo Standard-Times.
In the TV world, there are three stations-- KSAN/3, which is NBC, KIDY/6, which
is Fox, and KLST/8, which is CBS.
San Angelo Links
History
The history of the frontier town began in the late 1860s across
the North Concho River from Fort Concho, which had been
established in 1867. As an early frontier town, San Angelo was
characterized by saloons and gambling. Officers of nearby Fort
Concho would not leave the garrison after dark. Shortly after
the fort was established, Bartholomew DeWitt, the founder of San
Angelo, bought 320 acres of land from Granville Sherwood for a
dollar an acre and, over the river, established a trading post,
which was later called Santa Angela. There are several stories
as to how the town was named, including one in which it was
named for DeWitt's sister-in-law, a nun in San Antonio. A local
historian found that DeWitt named the town in memory of his
wife, Carolina Angela, who died in 1866. The name had changed to
San Angela by 1883, when application was made for a post office.
The proposed name of San Angela was rejected because of the
ungrammatical construction. The name should be Santa Angela or
San Angelo. The latter was chosen. Oscar Ruffini,qv the
architect of many of the early business buildings in San Angelo,
arrived in the town shortly after the flood of 1882, which
destroyed the county courthouse in Ben Ficklin, the county seat.
After the voters decided on San Angelo as the new county seat,
Ruffini was asked to design and supervise the construction of
the new county courthouse. Ruffini remained in San Angelo, where
he was the architect of about forty buildings in the downtown
area, some of which are still in use.
Geography and Climate
According to the
United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 150.9
km² (58.2
mi²).
144.8 km² (55.9 mi²) of it is land and 6.1 km² (2.3 mi²) of it (4.03%) is water.
Education
Demographics
As of the
censusGR2
of 2000, there were 88,439 people, 34,006 households, and 22,409
families residing in the city. The
population density was 610.8/km² (1,582.2/mi²). There were
37,699 housing units at an average density of 260.4/km²
(674.5/mi²). The racial makeup of the city was 77.10% White,
4.73% African American, 0.65%
Native American, 0.95% Asian, 0.08% Pacific Islander, 13.96%
from other races, and 2.53% from two or more races. Hispanic or
Latino of any race were 33.15% of the population.
There were 34,006 households out of which 32.3% had children
under the age of 18 living with them, 49.5% were married couples
living together, 12.5% had a female householder with no husband
present, and 34.1% were non-families. 28.8% of all households
were made up of individuals and 11.5% had someone living alone
who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was
2.48 and the average family size was 3.08.
In the city the population was spread out with 25.8% under
the age of 18, 13.8% from 18 to 24, 26.9% from 25 to 44, 19.6%
from 45 to 64, and 13.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The
median age was 33 years. For every 100 females there were 92.1
males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 88.1
males.
The median income for a household in the city was $32,232,
and the median income for a family was $38,665. Males had a
median income of $27,532 versus $20,470 for females. The per
capita income for the city was $17,289. About 11.6% of families
and 15.7% of the population were below the
poverty line, including 21.3% of those under age 18 and
11.5% of those age 65 or over.
Notable residents
San Angelo in Popular Culture
Marty Robbins wrote a song, "San Angelo," which he
recorded and released on his 1960 album, More Gunfighter
Ballads & Trail Songs. The recording has since resurfaced on
many Robbins compilations.
The city is mentioned in the
Hank Williams, Jr. song "Texas Women."
The city is in Texas Country artist,
Mark David Manders,
song, "Leaving San Angelo."
Part of the
Cormac McCarthy novel
All The Pretty Horses is set in San Angelo, as is the
2000 movie adaptation. The crew of the movie version scouted
locations in San Angelo, and actors
Matt Damon and
Henry Thomas visited the city, but no filming took
place there.
The Christian rock band
Third Day has a song called "San Angelo" on their
"Wire" album.
Country artist
Aaron Watson has a hit single named "San
Angelo" on his album of the same name: "San Angelo".
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