Falfurrias
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city in and county seat of Brooks County, Texas, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Texas
- County
- Brooks
- Type
- Council-Manager
- City council
- Mayor David longloria Homer Salinas Justo Ramirez Martin Cabrera Aaron Treviño Manual Perez
- City administrator
- David Flores
- Total
- 2.86 sq mi (7.41 km )
- Land
- 2.86 sq mi (7.41 km )
- Water
- 0 sq mi (0.00 km )
- Elevation
- 115 ft (35 m)
- Density
- 1,610/sq mi (622/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 (CDT)
- Fips code
- 48-25368
- Website
- www .falfurrias .us
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Falfurrias (/fælˈfjʊəriəs/ fal-FURE-ee-əss) is a city in and the county seat of Brooks County, Texas, United States. Its population was 4,609 at the 2020 census, in a county that in the same census was just over 7,000. The town is named for founder Edward Cunningham Lasater's ranch, La Mota de Falfurrias. In 1893, the Falfurrias ranch was one of the largest in Texas at some 350,000 acres (140,000 ha).
The biggest industry in Falfurrias is the United States Border Patrol interior checkpoint south of the city on U.S. Route 281. As an indirect consequence, many migrants seeking to bypass the checkpoint by setting off across the arid land die of exposure and dehydration.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Falfurrias” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.