Stanton

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Stanton, Texas

Stanton is a city in and the county seat of Martin County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,492 at the 2010 census.

History

In 1887, New York native John Scharbauer established a cattle ranch in what later became known as Stanton.

Geography

Stanton is located at 32°7′51″N 101°47′31″W / 32.13083°N 101.79194°W / 32.13083; -101.79194 (32.130740, -101.792072).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.8 square miles (4.7 km²), of which, 1.8 square miles (4.7 km²) of it is land and 0.56% is water.

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there were 2,556 people, 854 households, and 651 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,458.1 people per square mile (563.9/km²). There were 1,002 housing units at an average density of 571.6 per square mile (221.1/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 73.98% White, 2.86% African American, 0.74% Native American, 0.31% Asian, 19.56% from other races, and 2.54% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 52.90% of the population.

Stanton (surname)

Stanton is an English toponymic surname (habitational surname).

Etymology and History

Stanton has its origins in the Anglo Saxon tribes, which settled in England around 5th-century CE. The word Stanton is derived from Old English term stan ‘stone’ and tun ‘enclosure’ or ‘settlement’, alluding to the stony grounds, where many of these tribes settled. Thus many places took on the name Stanton, like Stanton Harcourt in Oxfordshire, and Stanton Drew in Somerset, close to the Neolithic Stanton Drew stone circles. The origin of Stanton families has been researched by the Stanton DNA Project.

Many variants of the spellings, Stanton, Stainton, Stinton or Staunton, are recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 CE, and the surname can be found in England, Scotland, Ireland and their diaspora, which includes America.

Notable people with Stanton surname

Notable people with the surname include:

Polish language

Polish (język polski, polszczyzna) is a Slavic language spoken primarily in Poland and the native language of the Poles. It belongs to the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages. Polish is the official language of Poland, but it is also used throughout the world by Polish minorities in other countries. It is one of the official languages of the European Union. Its written standard is the Polish alphabet, which has 9 additions to the letters of the basic Latin script (ą, ć, ę, ł, ń, ó, ś, ź, ż). Polish is closely related to Kashubian, Lower Sorbian, Upper Sorbian, Czech and Slovak.

Although the Austrian, German and Russian administrations exerted much pressure on the Polish nation (during the 19th and early 20th centuries) following the Partitions of Poland, which resulted in attempts to suppress the Polish language, a rich literature has regardless developed over the centuries and the language currently has the largest number of speakers of the West Slavic group. It is also the second most widely spoken Slavic language, after Russian and just ahead of Ukrainian, which comes third.

Polska (dance)

The polska (Swedish plural polskor) is a family of music and dance forms shared by the Nordic countries: called polsk in Denmark, polska in Sweden and Finland and by several names in Norway in different regions and/or for different variants—including pols, rundom, springleik, and springar. The polska is almost always seen as a partner dance in  3/4-beat , although variants in 2/4 time and for two or more couples exist.

Evolution

As suggested by the name (even though its homonymity with the Polish word for "Poland" is probably accidental) the roots of the polska are often traced back to the influence of the Polish court throughout the northern countries during the early 17th century. (Polska also happens to be homonymous with the Swedish word for the Polish language.) This view is sometimes challenged by those who see earlier evidence of the musical tradition in Nordic visor or songs, that may have become grafted onto the newer foreign influences when the court dances began to filter out into the middle class and rural communities. Here and there also, a dance or a few dance melodies in triple meter have been found that may or may not be remnants of dances that the polska could have swallowed up.