|
Home
About
Us
Board
of Directors
Commercial
Real Estate
Upcoming
Events
Statistics
Area
Attractions
Links
of Interest
Contact Us
|
|
Wood
County, Texas Profile
|
|
|
Approximate precinct lines
are drawn in green on the map below.
|
Corporate
Tax Base
|
|
Population 40,855 (723 sq. mi)
|
$197,352,522
(2007) (+9.0%)
|
|
Precinct 1* 9,468
Alba 490
Yantis 368
Precinct 2* 8,555
Mineola 5,091
Precinct 3* 10,131
Hawkins 1,495
Precinct 4* 8,598
Winnsboro 3,861
Quitman* 2,241
|
|
12X12mi
square = market area
|
|
Market
Area Population based on Census Tract Data
|
|
Yantis 22,643
Alba 15,707
Mineola 41,342
Quitman 17,083
Hawkins 26,489
Winnsboro
21,314
Holly Lake Ranch 25,903
Golden
36,605
|
|
(69.4%
of Wood County population is in unincorporated areas of the county)
|
|
Economic Development Contacts
|
Chambers
|
|
Wood Co. Ind.
Commission: Gary McKinley (903) 768-2402
|
Quitman (903) 763-4411
Mineola (903)
569-2087
Hawkins (903) 769-4482
Winnsboro (903) 342-3666
Lake Fork (888)
265-1822
Holly Lake (903)
769-1207
|
|
Quitman Development Corporation: Trey Taeff (903)
763-4045
|
|
Mineola ED: Mercy
Rushing (903) 569-6944
|
|
Hawkins EDC: Frank Rucker (903) 769-4468
|
|
Yantis EDC: Tonya Norris
(903) 383-2610
|
|
Winnsboro ED: Shane Shepard
(903) 342-3654
|
|
Tax
Rates
|
School
Districts (Tax Rate per 100)
|
State and Local Incentives
|
|
County
Property .4700/100
Sales .5
Solid Waste .018/100
Hospital District .0280/100
Hotel/Motel Tax 4%
City
(ad valorum/sales)
Quitman (.4216/1.5)
Mineola (.5765/1.5)
Hawkins (.4799/1.5)
Winnsboro (.4515/1.5)
Yantis (.1608/1.5)
Alba (.5953/1.5)
|
Yantis (1.13016)
Quitman (1.14)
Harmony (1.111896)
Mineola (1.17)
|
Alba-Golden (1.127)
Winnsboro (1.04)
Hawkins (1.1485)
|
Econ. Dev.
Sales Tax Revenue
Property Tax
Abatements (City / County)
Texas
Capital Access Fund
Texas
Capital Fund
Enterprise Zone: (Quitman,
Hawkins, Mineola, Yantis, Winnsboro, Wood County)
|
|
Labor Force Information (04/08)
|
|
Total
Labor Force: 18,054
Employed:
17,248
Unemployed:
806
Unemployment
rate: 4.5%
|
|
|
|
|
|
Distance to Interstates
(Miles)
|
County Roads (40K lb
capacity)
|
Airports
|
|
I-20:
Mineola
(11)
Quitman (20)
Alba (19)
Hawkins (11)
|
I-30:
Yantis (15)
Winnsboro (14)
|
County Total 757.09 mi.
Pct 1: 228.28 mi.
Pct 2: 97.64 mi.
Pct 3:
178.97 mi.
Pct 4:
252.20 mi.
(post
re-districting)
|
Wood Co. 4000'
(Mineola/Quitman)
Winnsboro 3150'
Pounds Field Airport
(Tyler, 40
mi)
|
|
Railroads
|
High Speed Digital Access
|
Utilities
|
|
Kansas City
Southern (Winnsboro)
Union Pacific/AMTRAK* (Mineola*,
Hawkins)
|
LCII
& Peoples Wireless
Suddenlink
(Mineola/Quitman/Winnsboro)
Fiber
Optic (People's Comm.)
|
Wood County Electric
Upshur
Rural Electric
AEP
Southwest
People's
Communications
Verizon
TXU/Reliant
Natural Gas
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Major
Businesses
|
Newspapers
|
Colleges
|
|
Wood County Electric
Presbyterian Hospital of
Winnsboro
East Texas Medical
Center
Trinidad-Benham
Georgia
Pacific
Texas Wall
Systems
Exxon
Keller's
Creamery
Team
Worldwide
Ozarka
Bottled Water
Brookshire's
Grocery Stores
USA
Harness
ProTec
Lab
BioPlus
Wal-Mart Supercenter
Mineola Packing
Johnston
Correctional Unit
People's
Communications
|
Wood
Co Democrat (Weekly-Quitman)
Mineola
Monitor (Weekly)
Winnsboro
News (Weekly)
Big
Sandy-Hawkins Journal (Weekly)
Hawkins Herald & Holly Lake
Ranch Gazette (Biweekly)
Tyler Morning Telegraph
(Daily)
|
Jarvis Christian College,
Hawkins
Tyler Junior College
University of Texas
at Tyler
NE Texas Community College,
Mount Pleasant
|
|
Radio
|
County Lakes and
Recreation
|
|
KMOO
99.9 FM Real Country (Mineola)
KWNS
104.7 FM Gospel
(Winnsboro)
|
Lake
Fork 27, 690 acres
Lake
Winnsboro 806 acres
Lake
Quitman 814 acres
Lake
Hawkins 776 acres
Lake
Holbrook 653 acres
|
|
