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De Kalb, TX - History
We would like to provide the residents of De Kalb a basic history overview.
Welcome to the De Kalb Home page. The De Kalb Home page provides as much information as possible on De Kalb. Knowing De Kalb’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within De Kalb’s Home page, you will also find De Kalb’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
De Kalb has a population of 1616. 49.5% of De Kalb’s inhabitants are Male, and 50.5 are female. 33.4% of De Kalb is married and 47.7% own their own home. The Average Home price is $78,666, and the average rent is $694. Household median income in De Kalb is $34,178, and the individual median income is $21,674. De Kalb’s Ethnic is the following: White(69.8%), Black(16.8%), Hispanic(15.7%), Multiple(11.3%), Asian(1.1%), Other(0.7%), Native(0.4%).
On December 31, 1985, at approximately 5:14 pm, a Douglas DC-3 private aircraft, N711Y, owned by Ricky Nelson, with a pilot, co-pilot, and seven passengers, including Nelson, his fiancée, and five members of his band, crashed in a wooded area near De Kalb. The plane was on a flight from Guntersville, Alabama, to Dallas, Texas, where Nelson was scheduled to appear at a New Year's Eve performance.
All seven passengers were killed in the accident when the plane caught fire. The pilot and co-pilot were able to escape and survived.
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