San Elizario
| San Elizario | |
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 Location in Texas
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| Basic data | |
| Foundation : | 5th November 2013 |
| State : | United States |
| State : | Texas |
| County : | El Paso County |
| Coordinates : | 31 ° 35 ′ N , 106 ° 16 ′ W |
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) |
| Residents : | 13,603 (as of 2010) |
| Population density : | 529.3 inhabitants per km 2 |
| Area : | 25.7 km 2 (approx. 10 mi 2 ) of which 25.7 km 2 (approx. 10 mi 2 ) are land |
| Height : | 1110 m |
| Postal code : | 79849 |
| Area code : | +1 915 |
| FIPS : | 48-65360 |
| GNIS ID : | 1367493 |
San Elizario is a city in El Paso County in the US state of Texas . In 2010 the city had 13,603 inhabitants on an area of 25.7 km². San Elizario is located directly on the Mexican border on the border river Rio Grande near El Paso and Ciudad Juárez .
history
Before 1760 there was a place called "Hacienda de los Tiburcios" at the site of the later city of San Elizario, which around 1865 had around 160 inhabitants. In 1789 the place became the seat of the Spanish provincial administration, and the place that developed around the administration was named San Elizario.
Before the establishment of the Santa Fe Trail , San Elizario was an important transit and supply point. After the independence of Mexico , the place belonged to the province of Chihuahua . Due to a shift in the river bed of the Rio Grande , San Elizario had been on an island in the middle of the river since 1831. In 1841 the place had just over 1000 inhabitants. In 1847 the site was occupied by Texas troops, and in 1848 San Elizario officially became part of the Republic of Texas .
When El Paso County was founded in 1850 , San Elizario was named the seat of the county government, and the city remained, with brief interruptions, the administrative seat until 1873. In 1851 the first post office was opened. After 1873 the place began to lose importance. The most famous event in local history is probably the "Salt War of San Elizario" in 1877, when it came to the fighting over salt mining rights east of the city. Numerous men died in the course of the conflict, and part of the population fled to Mexico via the Rio Grande. When the railway line to El Paso was built in 1881 and San Elizario therefore had no railway connection, the city's economic situation went downhill.
The population stayed at around 1500 until 1904, but in the following decades the number of residents fell to 300 in 1931. From the 1940s the number of residents rose again and reached 1,064 in the early 1960s. Since then, the city has grown considerably The population increased from 4,385 in 1990 to 11,046 in 2000 within a decade.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ factfinder2.census.gov 2010 census. Accessed April 8, 2014.
- ↑ CL Sonnichsen, "SALT WAR OF SAN ELIZARIO," Handbook of Texas Online , accessed July 11, 2013. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
Web links
- San Elizario in the Handbook of Texas, engl.
- Comprehensive and up-to-date information about San Elizario from city-data