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Kouts, IN
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Porter County, 50 miles SE of the Loop. A trading post existed just southwest of the town on the Kankakee River during theearly nineteenth century when
Native Americans
controlled the region. Kouts developed around a
railroad
station in the nineteenth century. The town has remained sparsely populated.
| Kouts, IN (inc. 1921) | |||||
| Year |
Total
(and by category) |
Foreign Born | Native with foreign parentage | Males per 100 females | |
| 1930 | 583 | — | — | — | |
| 1960 | 1,007 | — | — | — | |
| 1990 | 1,603 | 1.1% | — | 96 | |
| 1,580 | White (98.6%) | ||||
| 10 | Black (0.6%) | ||||
| 2 | American Indian (0.1%) | ||||
| 11 | Asian/Pacific Islander (0.7%) | ||||
| 7 | Hispanic Origin* (0.4%) | ||||
| 2000 | 1,698 | 0.7% | — | 97 | |
| 1,681 | White alone (99.0%) | ||||
| 2 | Asian alone (0.1%) | ||||
| 11 | Some other race alone (0.6%) | ||||
| 4 | Two or more races (0.2%) | ||||
| 21 | Hispanic or Latino* (1.2%) | ||||
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