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Pharr is a city in Hidalgo County, Texas, United States. As of the 2020 census , the city population was 79,715, [ 6 ] and in 2022, the estimated population was 80,187. [ 7 ] Pharr is connected by bridge to the Mexican city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas .
Las Milpas (Spanish: "the milpas ") is a colonia in the City of Pharr, in central Hidalgo County, Texas in the Rio Grande Valley. It was previously an unincorporated area . Las Milpas is located off of U.S. Highway 281 , 5 miles (8.0 km) south of the city center of Pharr, [ 1 ] and between McAllen and the United States-Mexico border .
The Pharr–Reynosa International Bridge (Spanish: Puente Internacional Reynosa–Pharr) is an international bridge across the Rio Grande, along the U.S.–Mexico border. It connects the city of Pharr in the U.S. state of Texas with the city of Reynosa in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas.
Map of Hidalgo County Texas highlighting Pharr: Source: Own work: Author: 25or6to4: Licensing. ... Usage on zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org Pharr (Texas) Usage on zh ...
In the city of Weslaco, the highway passes by the South Texas College - Mid-Valley Campus. Bus. US 83-S next passes through the towns of Donna, Alamo, and San Juan before entering Pharr. In Pharr, the highway intersects US 281, just south of Interstate 69C. Crossing I-2/US 83 for the first time since Harlingen, Bus.
US 281 has two signed segments near its southern terminus in the Rio Grande Valley, both of which are signed west–east.The eastern segment, considered mainline US 281 by TxDOT, begins in Brownsville at an intersection with Business US 77 and SH 48 about 2 miles (3.2 km) from the Mexico border, and travels west through several communities along the border to Pharr.
The South Texas region is an area of 28 counties defined by the Texas Comptroller for economic reporting in 2022, as mapped here. The region included 2020 population of 2.4, or 8.3 percent of Texas' population, with about 32 percent in Hidalgo County (which includes McAllen) alone.
On March 15, 1919, Common School District No. 4 in Hidalgo County became Pharr-San Juan Independent School District. Forty years later in 1959, Alamo merged with the district, establishing what is now known as the Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Independent School District, a district that caters to over 31,000 students in the tri-city area.