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Val Verde County is a county located on the southern Edwards Plateau in the U.S. state of Texas. The 2020 population is 47,586. [1] Its county seat is Del Rio. [2] The Del Rio micropolitan statistical area includes all of Val Verde County. Val Verde, which means "green valley", [3] was named for a battle of the Civil War.
Location of Val Verde County in Texas. This is a list of the National Register Historic Places in Val Verde County, Texas. This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Val Verde County, Texas. There are seven districts and four individual properties listed on the ...
Del Rio is the principal city of the Del Rio micropolitan statistical area, which includes all of Val Verde County; [13] the micropolitan area had an estimated population over 50,000 in 2007. [14] Located across from Del Rio, in the Mexican state of Coahuila , is the city of Ciudad Acuña , with a city population of 201,161.
Phantly Roy Bean Jr. (c. 1825 – March 16, 1903) was an American saloon-keeper and Justice of the Peace in Val Verde County, Texas, who called himself "The Only Law West of the Pecos". According to legend, he held court in his saloon along the Rio Grande on a desolate stretch of the Chihuahuan Desert of southwest Texas.
Texas State Highway Loop 79 (Loop 79) is a state highway loop in Val Verde County in the U.S. state of Texas. [1] The highway, which opened in 2012, serves as a bypass of Del Rio , and provides access to Laughlin Air Force Base near its southern terminus.
It was founded in 1868 and given the name Valverde after the Civil War fight that two Milam County companies fought in New Mexico. James Pittman Whittington gave the community land for a church and a cemetery. 25 people lived in Val Verde in 2000. [2] The community was featured in the Geoff Mack song I've Been Everywhere.
A father and son were killed in what is being investigated as a homicide-suicide over the weekend in Val Verde, according to authorities. Father killed son, injured another relative before ...
Val Verde appears in the TV show NCIS ("Rendezvous", Season 14, Episode 24, 2017) as a remote part of Paraguay. Val Verde is one of the settings of the 2018 film Commando Ninja. Part of Hank Green's 2020 novel A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor is set in Val Verde. [8] The podcast Action Boyz, a comedy podcast that focuses on action movies and ...