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Brownsville (/ ˈbraʊnzˌvɪl /) is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Cameron County, located on the western Gulf Coast in South Texas, adjacent to the border with Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico. The city covers 145.2 sq mi (376.066 km 2), and had a population of 186,738 at the 2020 census. [9]
Website. www.co.cameron.tx.us. Cameron County, officially the County of Cameron, is the southernmost county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 421,017. [1][2] Its county seat is Brownsville. [3] The county was founded in 1848 and is named for Captain Ewen Cameron, [4] a soldier during the Texas Revolution and ...
1,379,230. The Lower Rio Grande Valley (Spanish: Valle del Río Grande), commonly known as the Rio Grande Valley or locally as the Valley or RGV, is a region spanning the border of Texas and Mexico located in a floodplain of the Rio Grande near its mouth. [1] The region includes the southernmost tip of South Texas and a portion of northern ...
Aug. 30—Brownsville leads the United States in upward mobility, according to the results of a new study published recently by The Economist. The analysis, conducted by the Census Bureau and ...
The Brownsville–Harlingen–Raymondville combined statistical area is made up of two counties in the Rio Grande Valley region of Texas. The CSA consists of the Brownsville–Harlingen metropolitan statistical area and the Raymondville micropolitan statistical area. A 2013 census estimate puts its population at 439,197.
South Padre Island, Texas. South Padre Island is a resort town in Cameron County, Texas, United States. [4] It is part of the Brownsville – Harlingen Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 2,066 at the 2020 census. The town is located on South Padre Island, a barrier island with the Laguna Madre situated to the leeward of the ...
1771 - José Salvador de la Garza settles in area per Espíritu Santo land grant. [1][2][3] 1846. March: Fort Taylor established by Zachary Taylor. [4][5] May 8: Battle of Palo Alto. [4] 1848 - Brownsville founded by Charles Stillman. [6][5] 1849. Travellers of the California Gold Rush pass through town.
The U.S. State of Texas currently has 80 statistical areas that have been delineated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). On July 21, 2023, the OMB delineated 13 combined statistical areas, 26 metropolitan statistical areas, and 41 micropolitan statistical areas in Texas. [1] As of 2023, the largest of these is the Dallas-Fort Worth ...