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Lufkin is the largest city in Angelina County, Texas, United States and is the county seat. The city is situated in Deep East Texas and is 60 mi (97 km) west of the Texas- Louisiana state line. Its population is 34,143 as of 2020. [5] Lufkin was founded in 1884 and named for Abraham P. Lufkin.
Before 2000, the Texas congressional delegation was mostly Democratic, and local Democrats still dominated most Texas counties, even as their residents increasingly voted for Republicans for ...
(The Center Square) – There are multiple key races to watch in Texas in the last few hours of Election Day, with border districts a central focus. According to multiple polls, former President ...
The population reached 1,165, of whom 196 were slaves, in 1850. The first county seat was Marion; successively, Jonesville became county seat in 1854, Homer in 1858, and Lufkin in 1892. Lufkin was favored by the route of the Houston, East and West Texas Railway (now the Southern Pacific), which had been built in 1882 from Houston to Shreveport.
Texas' population growth between 2000 and 2010 represents the highest population increase, by number of people, for any U.S. state during this time period. At the 2020 United States census it was reported that Texas had a resident population of 29,145,505, [1] a 15.9% increase since the 2010 U.S. census.
The population density was 827.9 inhabitants per square mile (319.7/km 2). There were 1,390 housing units at an average density of 303.5 units per square mile (117.2 units/km 2 ). The racial makeup of the city was 83.91% White , 3.96% African American , 0.21% Native American , 0.29% Asian , 9.81% from other races , and 1.82% from two or more races.
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The Lufkin Daily News was the first daily newspaper in Lufkin, founded in 1906 [2] by Charles L. Schless, who came to the city from Chicago to begin the afternoon publication. In 1909, he organized local stockholders to form a company and bought the Lufkin Tribune, a weekly in operation since 1887. Schless left Lufkin in 1912, and the company ...