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Webb County, Texas. The Texas tourism travel station is located at the intersection of Interstate 35 and U.S. Route 83 north of Laredo. Webb County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 267,114. [1][2] Its county seat is Laredo. [3] The county was named after James Webb (1792–1856), who ...
1339633 [8] Website. laredotexas.gov. Laredo (/ ləˈreɪdoʊ / lə-RAY-doh; Spanish: [laˈɾeðo]) is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and seat of Webb County, on the north bank of the Rio Grande in South Texas, across from Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico.
Fort McIntosh was a U.S. Army base in Laredo, Webb County, Texas, from 1849 to 1946. Fort McIntosh was established on 3 March 1849 by the 1st US Infantry, under the command of Lt. E.L. Viele, [2] to guard the Texas frontier at the site of a strategic river crossing. Originally named Camp Crawford, the fort was renamed Fort McIntosh in 1850 in ...
This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Webb County, Texas. There are five districts and five individual properties listed on the National Register in the county. One property is also a State Antiquities Landmark, and two districts contain several Recorded Texas ...
Rio Bravo, Texas. Rio Bravo is a city in Webb County, Texas, United States. It lies16 miles (26 km) south of Laredo on U.S. Route 83, [4] on the left bank of the Rio Grande (Spanish: Rio Bravo). Founded in 1982 by Cecil McDonald, a property developer who also founded neighboring El Cenizo, [4] Rio Bravo was incorporated as a city in 1989. [5]
Dawson County, formed in 1858 in what is now Kinney County and Uvalde County and abolished in 1866 (not to be confused with the present-day Dawson County). Encinal County, formed in 1856. Abolished in 1899 and annexed to Webb County. Foley County, formed in 1887 from Presidio County. Annexed in 1897 to Brewster County.
Webb was established as a railroad stop on the International-Great Northern Railroad in 1881. The town was named in honor of the county in which it was founded. A Webb post office, established in 1909, was still in operation in 1980. According to a local count in 1914 Webb, Texas had a population of 100, but its population declined to 25 by 1936.
Webb County Courthouse (Texas) / 27.50722°N 99.50556°W / 27.50722; -99.50556. The Webb County Courthouse is located in Laredo in the U.S. state of Texas. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.