Alamo, Texas This article is about the town positioned in the Rio Grande Valley and having no affiliation with the Alamo Mission in what is now downtown San Antonio, Texas, nor the San Antonio suburb of Alamo Heights, Texas.

Alamo, Texas .

Alamo, Texas Location of Alamo, Texas Location of Alamo, Texas Alamo is positioned in the Rio Grande Valley what is nicknamed the "Land of Two Summers," is a town known as "The Refuge to the Valley" in the irrigated region of southern Hidalgo County, Texas.

Alamo is also one of the Rio Grande Valley's gateways to Mexico, via U.S.

Alamo's populace was 18,353 at the time of the 2010 U.S.

Alamo was laid out in 1909, and titled after the Alamo Mission in San Antonio. Alamo is positioned at 26 11 6 N 98 7 4 W (26.185113, -98.117892). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 5.7 square miles (15 km2), all land, and lies inside Hidalgo County, Texas.

In the city, the populace was spread out with 30.0% under the age of 18, 9.8% from 18 to 24, 22.9% from 25 to 44, 17.5% from 45 to 64, and 19.8% who were 65 years of age or older.

The United States Postal Service operates the Alamo Post Office. Most of Alamo's populace resides inside the Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Independent School District (PSJAISD), although a portion does resides in the Donna Independent School District (DISD) boundaries. Elementary schools in the Pharr-San Juan-Alamo District positioned in Alamo include Zeferino Farias Elementary, Agusto Guerra Elementary, Santos Livas (Previously North Alamo) Elementary, Marcia R.

Garza Elementary, and John Mc - Keever Elementary. Middle schools: Alamo Middle School and Audie Murphy Middle all serve Alamo. Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Memorial High School is the zoned high school of PSJAISD Alamo. In addition, all Alamo inhabitants are allowed to apply to magnet schools directed by the South Texas Independent School District.

Valley Christian Heritage School is in Alamo.

Idea Public School District enrolls small-town students in any of a range of region campuses in positioned in Alamo, San Juan, Pharr, Donna, Edinburg.

Sergeant Fernando de la Rosa Memorial Library is positioned in Alamo. The library is titled after United States Army Sergeant Fernando "Nando" De La Rosa, who died amid a roadside bomb explosion on October 27, 2009 in the Arghandab River Valley in Afghanistan. United States Enumeration Bureau.

"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".

"SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP (2010 CENSUS): Hidalgo County, TX." "PSJA Elementary School Zones." Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Independent School District.

"PSJA Middle School Zones." Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Independent School District.

Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Independent School District.

"Sergeant Fernando de la Rosa." City of Alamo Article "Alamo" in Handbook of Texas Online Municipalities and communities of Hidalgo County, Texas, United States Alton Donna Edcouch Edinburg Elsa Granjeno Hidalgo La Joya La Villa Mc - Allen Mercedes Mission Palmhurst Palmview Penitas Pharr Progreso Progreso Lakes San Juan Sullivan City Weslaco Abram Cesar Chavez Citrus City Cuevitas Doffing Doolittle Faysville Hargill Havana Heidelberg Indian Hills La Blanca La Homa Laguna Seca Linn (former San Manuel-Linn) Llano Grande Lopezville Los Ebanos Midway North Midway South Mila Doce Monte Alto Muniz Murillo (former Nurillo) North Alamo Olivarez Palmview South Perezville Relampago San Carlos Scissors South Alamo Villa Verde West Sharyland