Raymondville, Texas
| Raymondville | |
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| Nickname : Gateway to Rio Grande Valley | |
 Willacy Court House |
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| Location in Texas | |
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| Basic data | |
| Foundation : | 1904 |
| State : | United States |
| State : | Texas |
| County : | Willacy County |
| Coordinates : | 26 ° 29 ′ N , 97 ° 47 ′ W |
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) |
| Residents : | 11,087 (as of 2017) |
| Population density : | 1,131.3 inhabitants per km 2 |
| Area : | 9.8 km 2 (about 4 mi 2 ) of which 9.8 km 2 (about 4 mi 2 ) is land |
| Height : | 9 m |
| Postcodes : | 78580, 78598 |
| Area code : | +1 956 |
| FIPS : | 48-60836 |
| GNIS ID : | 1377181 |
| Website : | www.raymondvilletx.us |
| Mayor : | Gilbert Gonzales |
Raymondville is a city on the edge of the lower Rio Grande -Tals in the US - State of Texas . It is the capital of the surrounding Willacy County , lies in the broader catchment area of the statistical metropolitan area Brownsville - Harlingen and has made a name for itself as a trading center for agricultural products. According to the US census, the population in 2017 was 11,087.
geography
Raymondville is located in central eastern Willacy County. On the outskirts by leading US Highway 77 , which further leading to the south part of the informal name Texas Tropical Road carries. Another cross-regional connection road is State Highway 186, which runs through the city in a west-east direction. Not far from the city is the La Sal Vieja lake - a salt lake that was an important place for the extraction of salt even before the arrival of Europeans in the region . The landscape around the city is flat and even. In terms of the vegetation zone , Raymondville is in the transition zone between the lower Rio Grande Valley , a flat, fertile river bordering region in which mainly citrus and vegetable intensive cultivation is carried out, and the drier, less arable area, which is to the north and West adjoins it. The usability of the soils around the city varies accordingly from clayey and quite productive to sandy , salty and therefore not very suitable for agricultural purposes.
Neighboring cities and neighboring towns are in the north - compiled only for statistical purposes - common endings Ranchette Estates and Los Angeles, the cities of San Perlita and Lyford the east and south and the community Lasara in the West. Apart from the two exceptions listed, the area to the north of the city is largely free of closed settlements as far as neighboring Kenedy County . The straight line distance to the Rio Grande Valley centers Harlingen, Brownsville and McAllen is 31, 67 and 53 kilometers, that to San Antonio about 330 kilometers and that to the northeast Texas metropolis of Houston roughly 450 kilometers.
The climate in the region is subtropical and subhumid . The temperatures ranging from 9 ° C up to 29 ° C in January and 23 ° C to 35 ° C in July. The average rainfall is 27 centimeters per year. The growth period is approximately 318 days. As a coastal city, Raymondville is one of the areas that are potentially affected by hurricanes . Tropical storm Dolly in 2008 caused widespread flooding in the city .
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Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Raymondville, Texas
Source: US climate data
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history
| growth of population | |||
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| Census | Residents | ± in% | |
| 1930 | 2050 | - | |
| 1940 | 4050 | 97.6% | |
| 1950 | 9136 | 125.6% | |
| 1960 | 9385 | 2.7% | |
| 1970 | 7987 | -14.9% | |
| 1980 | 9493 | 18.9% | |
| 1990 | 8962 | -5.6% | |
| 2000 | 9778 | 9.1% | |
| 2010 | 11,284 | 15.4% | |
Raymondville was founded in 1904. The city's founder was Edward Burleson Raymond, temporarily foreman on the Kings Ranch - a ranch covering around 1200 square kilometers , the area of which stretched over five South Texas counties . Raymond, who temporarily served as a political officer for Cameron County and in the meantime had advanced to head of the El Sauz Division of Kings Ranch - in what is now Willacy County - founded the Raymond Town and Improvement Company and sold together with Henrietta King, the large ranch Owner and widow of the deceased ranch founder, land shares to newcomers from the north. First building of the new city's founding were a post office and a - financed by Raymond - Station of the newly built St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway .
The economy of the newly founded city was mainly based on the cultivation and sale of agricultural products - preferably sorghum , cotton , citrus fruits , vegetables and corn . In 1921 Raymondville became the district capital of Willacy County, which was founded in 1912 and restructured in 1921. In 1929 around 1,800 people lived in the city. In 1927 a politically significant court ruling was issued against citizens and police officers of the city. The background to the so-called Raymondville Peonage Cases were reprisals against Mexican farm workers who were forced to perform various forms of forced labor by means of measures not covered by law - such as the accusation of "vagabonding" . The Nueces County Federal Court's ruling was one of the first to rule this form of labor recruitment illegal and unlawful.
By the 1930s, three churches , two schools , a courthouse, a hospital and a hotel were built ; in addition, various manufacturing companies settled in the city. Between 1941 and 1952, the population grew from 4,050 to over 9,000 - an increase that may have been caused by the inclusion of previously rural settlements in the urban area. In the second half of the 20th century , Raymondville continued to distinguish itself as an agricultural trading center. There were also processing companies such as a cottonseed processing plant, companies producing agricultural implements, and leather goods , clothing and food processing companies .
The emerging tourism on the nearby Gulf Coast also had a positive effect on the economy . In the 1990s, Raymondville had several municipal infrastructure facilities such as the Raymondville Historical and Community Center and the Reber Memorial Library , a public assembly hall and - in 1977 - an extension for the courthouse.
Demographics
The population development of Raymondville proceeded in a steadily increasing, not characterized by big leaps pace. The population only experienced a strong increase in the period between 1930 and 1950 - at a time when the city was still relatively young. According to the US census , there were 11,087 residents in the city in 2017 . Of these, 6,536 were male , 4,551 female , 8,751 adults , 2,336 children or adolescents and 1,463 were older than 65 years. The disparity between women and men is 100 to 143.6. The median age was 33.2 years. The vast majority of 10,096 residents or 91.1% described themselves as Hispanic or Latino . 827 inhabitants described themselves as white (7.5%). 142 as African American (1.3%) and 22 as Asian (0.2%). Natives of Indian origin or people belonging to more than one ethnic group were not present in the survey. The median income per household based on the Quickfact information of the census was 41,389 US dollars (USD). The calculated median is below that of both the state of Texas (USD 54,700) and that of the United States (USD 55,300). The census showed 34.6% of people living in poverty and 39.7% of people without health insurance .
Others
The Raymondville Independent School District covers large parts of the surrounding area in the north, west and east beyond the immediate city area. Furthermore, parts of the urban infrastructure are three prisons , the maintenance of which is in the hands of private companies:
- the Willacy County Correctional Center . It is operated by the Management and Training Corporation on behalf of the United States Immigration and Customs Service . The center, which was built in 45 days, opened in 2006 and closed in March 2015 after destructive unrest, was designed as a tent city and served as a federal camp for illegal immigrants .
- The Willacy County Regional Detention Center , the Willacy County's regional detention center . It was opened in 2003, is operated by the Management and Training Corporation and is responsible, among other things, for the accommodation of federal prisoners of the US Marshals Service .
- The Willacy County State Jail . It is operated by Corrections Corporation of America under contract with the Texas criminal justice system. It is designated as a medium security facility and has a capacity of 1069 places. The previous operator of the facility, Wackenhut , which is now part of the Geo Group , was overlaid with a civil suit for 42.5 million US dollars after the murder of a prisoner in 2001 .
sons and daughters of the town
- Angela Via (* 1981), singer
- Eric Molina (born 1982), boxer
Web links
- Official homepage of Raymondville (Engl.)
- Prisons in Raymondville (Engl.)
- Raymondville in the Handbook of Texas Online (Engl.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ La Sal Vieja . Musgrave Coole, Texas State Historical Association (TSHA), June 15, 2010 (Engl.)
- ↑ Rio Grande Valley . David M. Vigness and Mark Odintz, Texas State Historical Association (TSHA), June 15, 2010; Upgrade: October 5th, 2015
- ↑ a b Willacy County . Alicia A. Garza, Texas State Historical Association (TSHA), June 15, 2010; modified: February 22, 2016 (Engl.)
- ↑ Overview of Willacy County, Texas , statisticalatals.com, accessed January 8, 2019.
- ↑ Information based on manual measurement in Google Earth , January 8, 2019
- ↑ Flooded neightborhood in Texas , fema.gov, accessed January 8, 2019.
- ^ Damages from Hurricane Dolly May Reach $ 750 million , insurancejournal.com, July 28, 2008 (Engl.)
- ^ A b Population of Raymondville, TX . population.us, accessed January 7, 2019
- ↑ a b c d Raymondville, TX . Stanley Addington, Texas State Historical Association (TSHA), June 15, 2010 (Engl.)
- ^ Raymondville Peonage Cases . Alicia A. Garza, Texas State Historical Association (TSHA), June 15, 2010 (Engl.)
- ^ Raymondville, Texas . ACS Demographic and Housing Estimates, 2017, American FactFinder, accessed January 7, 2019.
- ↑ a b Raymondville City, Texas , brief overview on the website of the United States Census Bureau, accessed January 7, 2019.
- ^ Household Income in Raymondville, Texas . Household income overview on statisticalatlas.com, accessed January 7, 2019.
- ^ Overview of Raymondville Independent School District, Texas , statisticalatlas.com, accessed January 8, 2019.
- ^ Raymondville: Inside the Largest Immigration Prison Camp in the US , democracynow.org, February 23, 2007 (Engl.)
- ↑ Goodbye to Tent City , Daniel Blue, Texas Observer, March 26, 2015 (Engl.)
- ↑ Willacy County State Jail , prisonpro.com, accessed January 8, 2019.
- ↑ Appeals Court upholds $ 42.5 million wrongful death suit against Wackenhut , Raymondville Chronicle, April 8, 2009 (Engl.)
- ↑ Angela Via , imdb.com