Del Rio, Texas Del Rio, Texas City of Del Rio Location of Del Rio, Texas Location of Del Rio, Texas State Texas Del Rio City Hall at 109 W.
Del Rio Civic Center at 1915 Veterans Blvd.
Glimpse of the Whitehead Memorial Museum in Del Rio in Del Rio is a bed and breakfast inn directed by Laura Galvan.
Veterans Memorial outside the Del Rio Civic Center Del Rio is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Val Verde County, Texas . It is 152 miles west of San Antonio.
As of 2015, the town/city had a populace of 40,549. Del Rio is connected with Ciudad Acuna via the Lake Amistad Dam International Crossing and Del Rio Ciudad Acuna International Bridge.
Del Rio is also home to Laughlin Air Force Base, the busiest United States Air Force pilot training complex in the world.
11 Del Rio in film and tv The Spanish established a small settlement south of the Rio Grande in present-day Mexico, and some Spaniards settled on what became the United States side of the Rio Grande as early as the 18th century.
Development on the north shore of the Rio Grande did not begin until after the American Civil War.
The San Felipe Springs, about 8 mi (13 km) east of the Rio Grande on the U.S.
Developers acquired a several thousand acres of territory adjoining to the springs, and to San Felipe Creek formed by the springs, from the State of Texas in exchange for building a canal fitness to irrigate the area.
Residents referred to the slowly developing town as San Felipe Del Rio because small-town lore said the name came from early Spanish explorers who offered a Mass at the site on St.
The United States Postal Department shortened "San Felipe del Rio" to "Del Rio" to avoid confusion with San Felipe de Austin.
In 1885, Val Verde County was organized and Del Rio became the county seat.
The City of Del Rio was incorporated on November 15, 1911.
Many history items from Del Rio, especially from the 19th century, are preserved at the Whitehead Memorial Museum downtown.
Del Rio is known as the American address of legendary Mexican airways broadcasts XERA and XERF just over the U.S.-Mexico border in Ciudad Acuna; their 500,000-watt signals could be heard at evening as far away as Canada.
Legendary deejay Wolfman Jack directed XERF in the 1960s, using a Del Rio address to sell various products advertised on the station. In 1942, the Army Air Corps opened Laughlin Field 9 mi (14 km) east of Del Rio as a training base for the Martin B-26, but it was deactivated in 1945.
As the Cold War pressures built, along with new border control issues, Laughlin Field was rebuilt and retitled Laughlin Air Force Base.
Laughlin plays a large part in the Del Rio improve as the area's biggest employer.
At one time, Del Rio was in the running to turn into the home of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center for agents of the U.S.
This benefits Laughlin AFB and the town/city of Del Rio both financially and economically.
Del Rio was one of five metros/cities in the United States chose for an FBI county-wide headquarters' office; the building is adjoining to the six-story Roswell Hotel in downtown Del Rio.
Del Rio is positioned at 29 22 15 N 100 53 45 W (29.370716, 100.895839). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 20.2 square miles (52.3 km2), of which 52.2 km2 (20.2 sq mi) is territory and 0.1 km2 (0.039 sq mi), or 0.24%, is veiled by water. Del Rio lies on the northwestern edges of the Tamaulipan mezquital, also called the South Texas brush country.
It is also near the southwestern corner of the Edwards Plateau, which is the fringe of the famous, oak savanna-covered Texas Hill Country; that region is dotted with various small springs; one of these is the San Felipe Springs, which provides a constant flow of water to San Felipe Creek.
The creek supplied fresh water for drinking and irrigation to early pioneer of Del Rio, and the springs are still the town's waterworks.
The Del Rio region, west to about the Pecos River, has a mix of desert shrub and steppe vegetation, depending on soil type, with the gray-leafed cenizo (Leucophyllum spp.), a several different acacias, cacti, and grama grasses dominant members of small-town flora.
Cactus grows in the semiarid climate of Del Rio.
This gives Del Rio and adjoining areas the effect of being in a coastal dryland area, even though the Gulf of Mexico is over 300 mi (480 km) away.
The coldest temperature recorded in Del Rio is 10 F ( 12.2 C) on December 23, 1989, and the average window for freezing temperatures is December 2 to February 20.
On average there are amid each year 41 days receiving at least 0.04 inches or 1 millimetre of rainfall, thirteen days with at least 0.4 inches or 10 millimetres, and five with rainfall totalling at least 1.0 inch or 25 millimetres.
Climate data for Del Rio International Airport, Texas (1981 2010 normals, extremes 1905 present) Average snowy days ( 0.1 in) 0.5 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.6 In the city, the populace was distributed as 31.7% under the age of 18, 8.8% from 18 to 24, 27.6% from 25 to 44, 20.2% from 45 to 64, and 11.7% who were 65 years of age or older.
Route 277 crosses Lake Amistad north of Del Rio.
Brown Plaza in Del Rio is titled for its donor, George Washington Brown (1836 1918), both a county and precinct clerk originally from North Carolina.
Del Rio Chamber of Commerce is positioned by the Civic Center.
A glimpse of downtown Del Rio in Del Rio; pastor John Fluth (2016) Del Rio is the principal town/city of the Del Rio Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Val Verde County; the micropolitan region had an estimated populace of over 50,000 in 2007. Located athwart from Del Rio, in the Mexican state of Coahuila, is the town/city of Ciudad Acuna with a town/city population of 146,161.
Del Rio is home to the George Paul Memorial Bullriding, which is the earliest stand-alone bull riding event in the world. The United League Baseball is looking into placing an expansion charter in Del Rio for the 2014 season.
Home games will be played at Del Rio Bank and Trust Ram Stadium (formerly Roosevelt Park); the stadium is going through a renovation and seating expansion project.
The town/city is served by the San Felipe Del Rio Consolidated Independent School District.
Del Rio is now home to Premier High School of Del Rio, a enhance charter school. SWTJC Del Rio (part of Southwest Texas Junior College) Rio Grande College Del Rio (part of Sul Ross State University) The Del Rio News-Herald is a daily journal presented in Del Rio, covering Val Verde County.
Del Rio Amtrak station Del Rio International Airport serves the city.
United Express operating county-wide jet airplane on behalf of United Airlines had provided daily nonstop service between Del Rio (DRT) and Houston Intercontinental Airport (IAH); however, the airline ceased serving the DRT-IAH route in April 2013.
Texas Sky Airlines will furnish air service to Del Rio/Cd.
Acuna and the Middle Rio Grande region in 2016.
Bus service to Del Rio is provided by Greyhound Bus Lines.
Amtrak provides passenger rail service at the Del Rio station on the Sunset Limited route which proceeds eastbound to San Antonio, closing on to New Orleans, and westbound to El Paso and Los Angeles.
Route 377 Crosses sparsely populated west Texas through a several small suburbs before eventually reaching Fort Worth.
Texas State Highway Loop 79 in Val Verde County and Del Rio: This four-lane road, known as a Super Two, Loop opened for traffic in mid-May 2012.
Post Office on Broadway Street in Del Rio The United States Border Patrol Del Rio zone command posts is positioned at 2401 Dodson Ave.
The United States Postal Service operates two postal service facilities in the Del Rio area: the Downtown Post Office (Broadway Street) and Northside Post Office (Bedell Avenue); the Laughlin Post Office (Laughlin AFB) closed because of budget cuts. The GEO Group, a private correctional facility corporation based in Boca Raton, Florida, manages the Val Verde Correctional Facility in Del Rio.
It is one of the primary employers in the Del Rio region and is in accordance with standards required by the State of Texas and federal guidelines.
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice operates the Del Rio Parole Office in Del Rio. Judge Roy Bean, an eccentric justice of the peace associated primarily with close-by Langtry, Texas, is interred, along with a son, at Del Rio's Whitehead Memorial Museum Del Rio in film and tv In the episode "The Young Gun" (February 7, 1958) of the CBS tv series Trackdown, starring Robert Culp as the Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman, the Ranger travels to Del Rio to investigate a bank robbery and goes undercover to gain inside knowledge to solve the case.
Michener novel Texas, was partly filmed in Del Rio. The movie, which took place in the beginning of the 19th century as many Anglo Americans were settling in the Mexican province of Texas, featured Randy Travis and Anthony Michael Hall.
Del Rio features prominently (even though scenes were shot elsewhere) in No Country for Old Men, the 2007 neo-Western thriller film directed, written, and edited by Joel and Ethan Coen, based on the Cormac Mc - Carthy novel of the same name.
Other presentations with a Del Rio setting include: 1986 Houston: The Legend of Texas (TV) Sam Elliott 1992 Rio Diablo (TV) Travis Tritt Michener's Texas (TV) John Schneider as Davy Crockett Rincon del Diablo the section where Barron St.
Barrio Chihuahua: In the southern part of the city, this neighborhood, titled after the Chihuahua Soccer Field, is positioned between West Gibbs to the north, Texas State Spur 29 to the west, Garfield Ave., West Garfield to the southeast, and S.
Lake Amistad and North Del Rio are positioned past the Buena Vista area.
Cienegas Terraces: Outside the town/city limits, it is home to the "Duck Pond" and various ranches, on the west side of the city.
San Felipe: The initial neighborhood in Del Rio, the town/city originally got its name from it as in "San Felipe del rio", south of Barrio Chihuahua and the Northside.
Anywhere south of Chihuahua but not past San Felipe Creek is known as The Winery, due to its close adjacency to Val Verde Winery, the earliest privately owned winery still operating in the United States.
Westside: Home to Del Rio International Airport, the neighborhood is surrounded to the north by W.
"Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Del Rio city, Texas".
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Del Rio city, Texas".
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"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Annual Estimates of the Population of Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas: April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2006 (CBSA-EST2006-01)". Population Division.
Del Rio Chamber of Commerce Del Rio ground Archived May 9, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
Rio Grande College Sul Ross State University "Del Rio News-Herald".
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"Post Office Location PECAN Archived June 9, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.." United States Postal Service.
"Post Office Location DEL RIO Archived June 9, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.." United States Postal Service.
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