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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 in the ill-fated Mier Expedition.
Brownsville (/ ˈ b r aʊ n z v ɪ l / BROWNZ-vil) is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the county 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]
Location of Cameron County in Texas. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Cameron County, Texas.. This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Cameron County, Texas, United States.
The tract is a former Texas state park located in the Boca Chica Subdelta separated from Mexico by the Rio Grande. The park was acquired by the state of Texas and opened in May 1994. The state park land is now managed by the US federal government as part of the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge. [1]
Cameron is located at (30.854544, –96.978716 It is situated at the junction of U.S. Highways 77 and 190 , approximately 71 miles northeast of Austin in north-central Milam County. [ 6 ]
A drawing of Lon Hill in 1912 Harlingen in 1927 Harlingen's Jackson Street in the late 1950s. Harlingen's strategic location at the intersection of U.S. Route 77 and U.S. Route 83, codesignated as Interstate 69 East and Interstate 2, respectively, in northwestern Cameron County, fostered its development as a distribution, shipping, and industrial center.
Los Fresnos is located slightly south of the geographic center of Cameron County at (26.073216, –97.478164 It is 12 mi (19 km) north of the center of Brownsville and 18 mi (29 km) southeast of Harlingen.
Port Isabel is located in eastern Cameron County at 26°4'25" North, 97°12'48" West (26.073675, –97.213234), [10] on the western side of the south end of Laguna Madre, an estuary of the Gulf of Mexico. The Queen Isabella Causeway crosses Laguna Madre to South Padre Island on the Gulf shore.