Alamo
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city in Hidalgo County, Texas, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States of America
- State
- Texas
- County
- Hidalgo
- Incorporated
- May 12, 1924
- Named after
- Alamo Mission
- Total
- 7.51 sq mi (19.45 km )
- Land
- 7.51 sq mi (19.45 km )
- Water
- 0 sq mi (0.00 km )
- Elevation
- 98 ft (30 m)
- Density
- 2,596/sq mi (1,002/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( Central (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 (CDT)
- Fips code
- 48-01576
- Website
- www .alamotexas .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- Alamo
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Hidalgo County
- Population
- 19493
- Area
- 18.401304
- Elevation
- 30
- Official website
- www.alamotexas.org
- Households
- 6106
- Dialing code
- 956
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- postal code
- 78516
- inception
- 1924-05-12
- P8168
- Die Brücke
- water as percent of area
- 0
- different from
- Alamo
- per capita income
- 16783
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Encyclopedic overview
Alamo (/ˈæləmoʊ/ AL-ə-moh), located in the Rio Grande Valley is a city in the irrigated area of southern Hidalgo County, Texas, United States in an area of vegetable farming and citrus groves, and is a noted winter resort/retirement town near the Mexico–U.S. border. Alamo is one of the Rio Grande Valley's gateways to Mexico, via U.S. Route 281 and Nuevo Progreso, Tamaulipas, as well as a gateway to the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge. Alamo's population was 19,493 at the 2020 census.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alamo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.