De Kalb, Texas
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DeKalb is a city in Bowie County
Bowie County, Texas
Bowie County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. It is part of the Texarkana, Texas - Texarkana, Arkansas, Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of 2000, the population was 89,306. Its legal county seat is Boston, though its courthouse is located in New Boston...

, Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

, United States
United States
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. The population was 1,769 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Texarkana, Texas
Texarkana, Texas
Texarkana is a city in Bowie County, Texas, United States. It effectively functions as one half of a city which crosses a state line — the other half, the city of Texarkana, Arkansas, lies on the other side of State Line Avenue...

 - Texarkana, Arkansas
Texarkana, Arkansas
As of the census of 2000, there were 26,448 people, 10,384 households, and 7,040 families residing in the city. The population density was 830.5 people per square mile . There were 11,721 housing units at an average density of 368.1 per square mile...

 Metropolitan Statistical Area
Texarkana metropolitan area
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. Its two area codes are 430 and 903. Its ZIP code
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 is 75559. It is in the Central Time Zone
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.

DeKalb was the birthplace of Bonanza
Bonanza
Bonanza is an American western television series that both ran on and was a production of NBC from September 12, 1959 to January 16, 1973. Lasting 14 seasons and 430 episodes, it ranks as the second longest running western series and still continues to air in syndication. It centers on the...

star Dan Blocker
Dan Blocker
Dan Blocker was an American actor best remembered for his role as Eric "Hoss" Cartwright in the NBC western television series Bonanza.-Early life:...

, who played the character "Hoss Cartwright" on the popular NBC
NBC
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 television
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 Western
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. DeKalb is also the hometown of former major league baseball player Luke Walker
Luke Walker
James Luke Walker is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball who played between and for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Detroit Tigers . He batted and threw left-handed....

.

Singer Ricky Nelson
Ricky Nelson
Eric Hilliard Nelson , better known as Ricky Nelson or Rick Nelson, was an American singer-songwriter, instrumentalist, and actor...

 was killed in an airplane crash near DeKalb on December 31, 1985, while he was en route to a concert in Dallas
Dallas, Texas
Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...

. In the history museum of DeKalb the keep the tail of the plane.

Geography

DeKalb is located at 33°30′29"N 94°36′59"W (33.508016, -94.616264).

According to the United States Census Bureau
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, the city has a total area of 1.3 square miles (3.4 km²), all of it land.

Demographics

As of the census
Census
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of 2000, there were 1,769 people, 725 households, and 477 families residing in the city. The population density
Population density
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 was 1,349.1 people per square mile (521.4/km²). There were 853 housing units at an average density of 650.5 per square mile (251.4/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 66.70% White, 30.81% African American, 0.57% Native American, 0.06% Asian, 0.68% from other races
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, and 1.19% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.43% of the population.

There were 725 households out of which 30.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 43.2% were married couples
Marriage
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 living together, 19.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 34.2% were non-families. 32.4% of all households were made up of individuals and 20.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.32 and the average family size was 2.92.

In the city the population was spread out with 25.7% under the age of 18, 7.4% from 18 to 24, 21.0% from 25 to 44, 20.7% from 45 to 64, and 25.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 42 years. For every 100 females there were 79.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 70.1 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $23,713, and the median income for a family was $32,212. Males had a median income of $27,955 versus $20,750 for females. The per capita income
Per capita income
Per capita income or income per person is a measure of mean income within an economic aggregate, such as a country or city. It is calculated by taking a measure of all sources of income in the aggregate and dividing it by the total population...

 for the city was $14,360. About 25.3% of families and 28.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 44.3% of those under age 18 and 25.0% of those age 65 or over.
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