Donna, Texas Donna, Texas Location of Donna, Texas Location of Donna, Texas Donna is a town/city in Hidalgo County, Texas, United States.
Donna is titled for Donna Hooks, daughter of T.
Part of this purchase was given to his daughter, Donna Hooks Fletcher, a divorcee.
In 1907, the town was given a depot station that was titled Donna in Hooks' honor.
In May 1902 he helped to form the La Blanca Agricultural Company, which purchased 23,000 acres (93 km2) fronting the river two miles (3 km) east and two miles (3 km) west of the site of present Donna and extending north eighteen miles (29 km).
He gave part of his purchase to his twenty-one-year-old daughter, Donna Hooks Fletcher, a divorcee.
In 1907 the town received a depot and was titled Donna with respect to Donna Fletcher, who was postmistress when the Donna postal service opened in 1908.
That year the first store in west Donna was established by Ed Ruthven, and the improve was recognized as the Texas station that shipped the most produce annually.
A 500-ton-capacity sugar foundry was assembled in Donna that year.
The Donna Developer was first printed on December 1, 1910, in Chapin.
By 1912 the town was divided into Donna and East Donna.
East Donna, the Mexican side of town, had a postal service titled Beatriz, after Beatriz Hooks, from 1912 to 1916.
In 1913 the first graduating class of four graduated from Donna High School.
At that time the Donna school precinct encompassed all of Weslaco and reached to the Mercedes corporate boundary.
In 1915 Donna had a populace of 1,500, a bank, a hotel, four churches, two cotton gins, the sugar mill, and a weekly journal titled the Donna Dispatch, presented by B.
The American Legion Hall, Donna Border Post No.
Donna had an estimated populace of 1,579 in 1925.
The people of Donna first started using the motto "The City with a Heart in the Heart of the Rio Grande Valley" to promote the town/city in the 1940s.
In 1953 Donna had three gins, three wholesale food, hardware and farm implements dealers, a wholesale distributor for feed mills, and the Donna News.
The election of 1954 drew consideration to Donna when Bob Jefferys, a newspaperman, requested that a special contingent of Texas Rangersqv be sent to the town/city by Governor Allan Shivers.
In 1967 Donna reported 110 businesses (including eight manufacturers), ten churches, a bank, a library, and a newspaper.
From 1920 through the mid-1960s Donna had segregated schools.
Donna had a populace of 8,982 and 122 businesses in 1978.
In 2000 Donna had a populace of 14,768 and 369 businesses.
There are five colonias immediately south of the Donna town/city limits off Farm-to-Market Road 493.
Colonia Nueva is on Farm-to-Market Road 493 two miles (3 km) south of Donna; Colonia Algeria is on River Road and Eleventh Street next to the town/city dump; Colonia Tierra Prieta is on the east side of Farm-to-Market Road 493; Colonia Salinas is south of Donna; and South Donna is a subdivision.
Water is provided to the colonias by Colonia Nueva Water Distribution System, a privately owned enterprise that purchases water from the town/city of Donna and resells it to 400 colonia domiciles.
Donna Hooks Fletcher was equally surprised and in the coming years she played a prominent part in the town's development.
In 1915 Donna had a populace of 1,500, a bank, a hotel, four churches, two cotton gins, the sugar mill, and a weekly journal titled the Donna Dispatch, presented by B.
The American Legion Hall, Donna Border Post No.
Donna had an estimated populace of 1,579 in 1925.
The people of Donna first started using the motto "The City with a Heart in the Heart of the Rio Grande Valley" to promote the town/city in the 1940s.
In 1953 Donna had three gins, three wholesale food, hardware and farm implements dealers, a wholesale distributor for feed mills, and the Donna News.
The election of 1954 drew consideration to Donna when Bob Jefferys, a newspaperman, requested that a special contingent of Texas Rangersqv be sent to the town/city by Governor Allan Shivers.qv He alleged that the election campaign was becoming violent because political bosses were physically threatening voters.
In 1967 Donna reported 110 businesses (including eight manufacturers), ten churches, a bank, a library, and a newspaper.
Donna is positioned at 26 10 13 N 98 2 57 W (26.170336, -98.049037). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 5.1 square miles (13.1 km ), of which 5.0 square miles (13.1 km ) is territory and 0.20% is water.
Donna is bordered on the east by Weslaco, Texas and on the west by Alamo.
Donna is part of the Mc - Allen Edinburg Mission and Reynosa Mc - Allen urbane areas.
The United States Postal Service operates the Donna Post Office. In 1913 the first graduating class of four graduated from Donna High School.
At that time the Donna school precinct encompassed all of Weslaco and reached to the Mercedes corporate boundary.
Donna is served by the Donna Independent School District.
The mission of Donna ISD is to ensure academic excellence for all students through a rigorous and supportive learning surrounding that provides a character education in accordance with state and nationwide standards.
Donna ISD is the proud recipient of the 2010 - 2012 Connections Grant in the amount of $850,000 awarded by the Texas Education Agency.
Donna ISD presently has 13 elementary school, 4 middle schools, and 2 high schools.
In addition, South Texas Independent School District operates magnet schools that serve the improve in the area.
In 1998, IDEA Academy & College Preparatory opened their doors in Donna as a enhance charter school.
IDEA Donna is the flagship of the IDEA Public Schools network that continues to expanded and operate throughout the RGV The Donna Public Library is positioned in Donna. The Rio Grande Valley, which encompasses Donna, is recognized as one of the best Birding areas in the United States.
An global bridge athwart the Rio Grande is being constructed to link Donna to the town/city of Rio Bravo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, a town/city with a populace of approximately 150,000.
KTLM (Channel 40, Rio Grande City, Texas, licensee: Sunbelt Media Co., Telemundo affiliate) "Post Office Location - DONNA Archived June 6, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.." Donna Public Library.
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