Eagle Pass, Texas Eagle Pass, Texas Bienvenidos, Eagle Pass, TX IMG 0442.JPG Location of Eagle Pass, Texas Location of Eagle Pass, Texas Eagle Pass, Texas is positioned in Texas Eagle Pass, Texas - Eagle Pass, Texas Location of Eagle Pass in Texas Eagle Pass is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Maverick County in the US state of Texas.
Eagle Pass borders the town/city of Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico, which is to the southwest and athwart the Rio Grande.
The Eagle Pass-Piedras Negras Metropolitan Area (EG-PN) is one of six binational urbane areas along the United States-Mexican border.
As of January 2008, as stated to the US census, the Eagle Pass Metropolitan Area's populace was 48,401 citizens , and the Piedras Negras Metropolitan Area's populace was 169,771.
3.2 City of Eagle Pass gasoline card theft and fraud Eagle Pass was the first American settlement on the Rio Grande.
Originally known as Camp Eagle Pass, it served as a temporary outpost for the Texas militia, which had been ordered to stop illegal trade with Mexico amid the Mexican-American War. Eagle pass is so titled because the contour of the hills through which the Rio Grande flows bore a fancied resemblance to the outstretched wings of an eagle. General William Leslie Cazneau (1807 1876) established the Eagle Pass townsite in the 1840s. In 1850, Rick Pawless opened a trading post called Eagle Pass.
In 1871, Maverick County was established, and Eagle Pass was titled the county seat.
The United States Army established the presumably permanent Fort Duncan on March 27, 1849, a several miles upstream from Camp Eagle Pass.
Shelby, en route to offer his troops' service to Maximilian in Mexico, stopped at Fort Duncan and buried in the Rio Grande the last Confederate flag to have flown over his men. After a several decades of deactivation, Fort Duncan was activated as a training camp amid World War I.
In 1938, the City of Eagle Pass acquired the fort and still operates a exhibition and a children's library at the site. The rancher and gunfighter King Fisher lived in Eagle Pass until his ambush and murder in San Antonio in 1884.
During World War I Camp Eagle Pass was established as a post of the U.S.
The City of Eagle Pass was sued by the US government in 2008 to gain access to the territory and construct a fence on the United States-Mexico border. Eagle Pass and Maverick County have been the subject of a several state and federal criminal investigations which have attained state and nationwide media attention.
An ongoing enhance corruption, bid-rigging, and kickback investigation by the FBI and Texas Department of Public Safety has resulted in the arrest and imprisonment of all four Maverick County Commissioners, one Justice of the Peace, and multiple small-town government employees and businessmen since October 2012, making it the biggest enhance criminal probe in Eagle Pass and Maverick County history. On February 20, 2015, a federal grand jury in Del Rio, Texas, indicted a County Commissioner and a former County Justice of the Peace in connection to an alleged bribery, kickback and bid-rigging scheme, all related to the ongoing enhance corruption investigation. On February 23, 2015, former Maverick County Commissioner Rodolfo Heredia was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release and ordered to perform 1,200 hours of improve service after completing his prison term.
City of Eagle Pass gasoline card theft and fraud District Court in Del Rio, Texas, indicted five Eagle Pass residents, including a former Public Works Department employee in connection with an estimated $70,000 credit card fraud scheme.
According to the indictment, amid 2011, City of Eagle Pass employee Edgar Aguilar obtained five town/city of Eagle Pass-owned "Fuelman" credit cards designated for fuel purchases for Public Works department vehicles and distributed them to his accomplices to purchase fuel for their own vehicles and to purchase fuel for the rest at the city's cost.
(born 1948), the former Eagle Pass town/city manager, pleaded guilty to lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation regarding a bribery scheme involving enhance contracts in Maverick County.
The Eagle Pass Industrial Park hosts a number of larger companies including the O.F.
Eagle Pass is a primary entry point for the Los Zetas cartel's drug smuggling operations.
Approximately 2,000 pounds of cocaine moves from Mexico to Eagle Pass each month.
Eagle Pass has a hot semi-arid climate (Koppen: BSh), typical of South Texas.
Climate data for Eagle Pass, Texas Eagle Pass is positioned at 28 42 38 N 100 29 22 W (28.710622, -100.489331). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 7.4 mi2 (19.2 km2), of which, 7.4 mi2 (19.2 km2) of it is territory and 0.04 mi2 (0.1 km2) of it (0.40%) is veiled by water.
Maverick County Memorial International Airport is a general aviation field, The nearest commercial air service is 50 miles away via the Del Rio International Airport in Del Rio, Texas, which will be served by Texas Sky Airlines in 2016.
In the city, the populace was distributed as 32.7% under the age of 18, 8.6% from 18 to 24, 25.6% from 25 to 44, 19.9% from 45 to 64, and 13.1% who were 65 years of age or older.
Crystal City, Texas Del Rio, Texas Texas 131.svg State Highway 131 The United States Postal Service operates a postal service in positioned at 455 S Bibb Ave Eagle Pass, TX.
The United States Border Patrol has two stations in Eagle Pass.
The Eagle Pass North Station positioned at 2285 Del Rio Blvd and the Eagle Pass South Station at 4156 El Indio Hwy Eagle Pass, TX.
Eagle Pass is the command posts of the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas, a federally recognized tribe of Kickapoo citizens . Eagle Pass Chronicles Eagle Pass Daily Eagle Pass is served by the Eagle Pass Independent School District.
The precinct operates 15 elementary schools, two junior high schools, and two high schools, which compete in UIL academics and sports.
Henry B Gonzalez Elementary School Eagle Pass Junior High School Eagle Pass High School The improve is served by chapters of four-year Sul Ross University in Alpine, in the form of Rio Grande College, and Southwest Texas Junior College, a two-year improve college based in Uvalde.
In 2000, as part of the power exchange between Texas and Mexico, a HVDC facility equipped with IGBTs was built.
Main article: Piedras Negras-Eagle Pass tornadoes CST, a tornado tore through the outside of Eagle Pass and caused loss of life and property damage.
Downtown Eagle Pass Eagle Pass City Hall at the foot of International Bridge The Rio Grande at Eagle Pass, Texas, with Mexico in the background The restored Fort Duncan in Eagle Pass is positioned near the International Bridge.
The International Bridge athwart the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass The Eagle Pass enhance library is positioned on Main Street east of the Maverick County Courthouse.
Fort Duncan Medical Center in Eagle Pass is titled after the former US Army outpost.
Mall de las Aguilas on Bibb Street in Eagle Pass Eagle Pass Piedras Negras International Bridge a b Texas Transportation Commission, Texas State Travel Guide, 2008, p.
Handbook of Texas Online a b Texas Historical Commission, historical marker at Fort Duncan, Eagle Pass, Texas, 1970 Texas City Ordered to Turn Over Land to Feds for Border Fence Construction, January 16, 2008 Guillermo Contreras, "Ex-Eagle Pass manager faces up to 5 years for lying to FBI," San Antonio Express-News, April 1, 2017, p.
"Tornado Kills 7 Near Eagle Pass On Mexican Border".
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