Brownsville, Texas
| Brownsville | |
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| Nickname : Brown Town, The Green City | |
 Cameron County Courthouse |
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| Location of Brownsville, Texas | |
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| Basic data | |
| Foundation : | 1849 |
| State : | United States |
| State : | Texas |
| County : | Cameron County |
| Coordinates : | 25 ° 54 ′ N , 97 ° 30 ′ W |
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) |
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Inhabitants : - Metropolitan Area : |
183,823 (as of 2016) 422,135 (as of 2016) |
| Population density : | 882.9 inhabitants per km 2 |
| Area : | 215.0 km 2 (approx. 83 mi 2 ) of which 208.2 km 2 (approx. 80 mi 2 ) is land |
| Height : | 7 m |
| Postal code : | 78520 |
| Area code : | +1 956 |
| FIPS : | 48-10768 |
| GNIS ID : | 1372749 |
| Website : | www.ci.brownsville.tx.us |
| Mayor : | Patricio M. Ahumada, Jr. |
 Brownsville about 1857 |
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Brownsville is a city in Cameron County in the US state of Texas . The city is on the Rio Grande , across from Matamoros , Tamaulipas , Mexico .
Brownsville is the seat of the county seat of Cameron Counties and the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College and seat of the Diocese of Brownsville .
geography
The city is on the southernmost tip of Texas, on US Highways 77 and 83 . It has a total area of 215 km², of which 6.8 km² is water.
history
Brownsville was founded on January 13, 1849 by Charles Stillman. Stillman and his business associates, who had bought up the entire area, began selling landless people to settlers for $ 1,500 each. The population rose to around 1,000 within a year. A cholera epidemic in the spring of 1849 killed around half of the population. Nevertheless, the city continued to grow and profited from the profitable smuggling to Mexico.
During the war of civil secession , part of the cotton production was exported to Mexico via Brownsville and shipped from Mexican ports to Europe because of the blockade of the southern ports by the northern fleet . In order to prevent this bypassing of the naval blockade, Brownsville was occupied by Northern troops in November 1863 , the Confederate troops blew up Fort Brownsville before they withdrew. On July 30, 1864, Brownsville was retaken by Confederate troops, who refused to hand over Northern troops to Brownsville even after the southern surrender. The last battle of the Civil War took place on May 13, 1865 at the gates of Brownsville at the Palmito Ranch. A few days after the battle, Confederate forces in Brownsville also surrendered.
On December 8, 1911 , the "Brownsville & Matamoros Bridge" was opened, which connects the two border towns. In 2001 Brownsville was declared an All-America City .
Demographics
| growth of population | |||
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| Census | Residents | ± in% | |
| 1860 | 2734 | - | |
| 1870 | 4905 | 79.4% | |
| 1880 | 4938 | 0.7% | |
| 1890 | 6134 | 24.2% | |
| 1900 | 6305 | 2.8% | |
| 1910 | 10,517 | 66.8% | |
| 1920 | 11,791 | 12.1% | |
| 1930 | 22,021 | 86.8% | |
| 1940 | 22,083 | 0.3% | |
| 1950 | 36,066 | 63.3% | |
| 1960 | 48.040 | 33.2% | |
| 1970 | 52,522 | 9.3% | |
| 1980 | 84.997 | 61.8% | |
| 1990 | 107.027 | 25.9% | |
| 2000 | 139,722 | 30.5% | |
| 2010 | 175.023 | 25.3% | |
| 1860-2000 2010 | |||
According to the 2000 census, 139,722 people lived here in 38,174 households and 32,180 families. The population density was 671.0 inhabitants per km 2 . The racial the population was composed of 7.32% White, 0.41% African American, 0.42% Native American, 0.54% Asian, and 0.03% Pacific Islander residents. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 91.28% of the population.
Of the 38,174 households, 50.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them. 59.3% of them were married couples living together. 20.9% were single mothers and 15.7% were non-families. 13.7% of all households were single households and there were people living in 6.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.62 and the average family size was 3.99 people.
34.6% of the population were under 18 years old, 11.2% 18 to 24, 27.5% 25 to 44, 17.2% 45 to 64, and 9.5% who were 65 years of age or older . The median age was 28 years. For every 100 females of all age groups, there were 89.0 males. For every 100 women aged 18 and over there were 82.5 men.
The median income for a household in the 24,468 USD , and the median income for a family 26,186 USD. Males had a median income of $ 21,739 versus $ 17,116 for females. The per capita income was $ 9,762. 36.0% of the population and 32.4% of families are below the poverty line. Of these, 45.0% were children and adolescents under 18 years of age and 31.0% were 65 or older.
economy
sons and daughters of the town
- Shelbie Bruce (born 1992), actress
- Bernard L. Kowalski (1929–2007), film director
- Kris Kristofferson (born 1936), country singer, songwriter and actor
- Grace Napolitano (* 1936), politician
- Bruce Sterling (born 1954), science fiction writer
- William O. Studeman (* 1940), director of the National Security Agency (NSA), director of Naval Intelligence and then vice director of the CIA
- James Anthony Tamayo (born 1949), Bishop of Laredo
Climate table
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Monthly average temperatures and rainfall for Brownsville, Texas
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See also
- List of cities in Texas
- List of Entries on the National Register of Historic Places in Cameron County, Texas
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information from the National Association of Counties ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved October 10, 2012
- ↑ Texas Almanac (PDF; 1.2 MB). Retrieved October 4, 2012
- ↑ US Census data for 2010 ( Memento of the original from July 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved October 12, 2012
- ^ Brownsville City, Texas , 2000 census data sheet at factfinder.census.gov .
Web links
- Brownsville in the Handbook of Texas , (Eng.)
- Brownsville Chamber of Commerce , (Eng.)
- Brownsville, Texas statistics from city-data , (engl.)