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S/ fal-fyoor-ee- s) is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Brooks County, Texas, United States. The populace was 4,981 at the 2010 census. The town is titled for founder Edward Cunningham Lasater's ranch, La Mota de Falfurrias.
In 1893, the Falfurrias ranch was one of the biggest in Texas at some 350,000 acres (1,400 km2).
Falfurrias is positioned in northeastern Brooks County at 27 13 36 N 98 8 42 W (27.226529, -98.144922). The town/city is centered on the intersection of U.S.
Falfurrias is approximately 78 miles (126 km) southwest of Corpus Christi, 90 miles (140 km) east of Laredo, and 36 miles (58 km) south of Alice. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 2.9 square miles (7.4 km2), all land. Falfurrias' beginning and evolution were largely due to the accomplishments of Edward Cunningham Lasater, a pioneer Rio Grande Valley rancher and developer. In 1895, he started a cattle ranch in what was then northern Starr County.
With the extension of the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway south from Alice to his ranch in 1904, Lasater established the town of Falfurrias and subdivided a sizeable portion of his ranch territory for sale to other farmers. In 1898, a postal service opened in the community.
Lasater brought in his Jersey cows and established a creamery in 1909. Sweet cream butter and other products from Edward Lasater's creamery business made the town a familiar name athwart the state. But that butter is no longer made from milk produced in Falfurrias.
Don Pedro Jaramillo, a Mexican-born curandero known as "The Healer of Los Olmos", was buried in Falfurrias in 1907 and is venerated at a shrine there.
The state granted a petition by small-town inhabitants to form a new county, Brooks, with Falfurrias as its governmental center of county in 1911.
There were 5,297 citizens living in Falfurrias in 2000 and 4,981 in 2010. The name "Falfurrias" antedates Anglo association with the area, and its derivation is uncertain. Town founder Edward C.
Another theory is that Falfurrias is a misspelling of one or another Spanish or French word.
Falfurrias has a hot semi-arid climate (Koppen BSh), bordering on a humid subtropical climate (Cfa) and characterized by very hot, humid, but generally dry summers and warm, dry winters with cold mornings.
During the summer, the weather is very unpleasant owing to the heat and humidity, and twelve mornings can be expected to stay at or above 77 F or 25 C, with twenty-two mornings staying this hot in June 1998 and the hottest morning on record being 86 F (30 C) on August 19 and 20 of 1915.
The hottest temperature on record has been 116 F (46.7 C) on July 13, 2016, whilst twenty-six afternoons over 100 F or 37.8 C can be expected each year, and 146 afternoons can be expected to exceed or reach 90 F (32.2 C).
The winter months are the driest and mildest, although average afternoon temperatures remain above 68 F or 20 C all year.
The coldest temperature on record has been 9 F or 12.8 C on January 12, 1962 the temperature later climbed to 88 F or 31.1 C on January 15 and the coldest maximum 26 F or 3.3 C on December 23, 1989.
Occasionally a strong eastern flow from the Gulf will disturb the normally dry winter conditions: 9.81 inches (249.2 mm) fell in January 1958, yet only 0.97 inches (24.6 mm) was recorded in five months from November 1970 to January 1971.
Overall the wettest calendar year in Falfurrias has been 1967 with 55.15 inches (1,400.8 mm) and the driest 1917 with only 8.98 inches (228.1 mm).
The hottest month on record has been June 1998 with a mean of 90.4 F (32.4 C) and a mean maximum of 103.1 F (39.5 C); however August 1923's mean maximum was 103.8 F or 39.9 C.
The coolest month has been December 1989 with a mena of 47.4 F (8.6 C); however the coolest month by mean maximum has been December 1914 at 58.4 F or 14.7 C.
Climate data for Falfurrias, Texas (1981 2010; extremes 1907 present) Record high F ( C) 96 Average high F ( C) 68.9 Average low F ( C) 42.5 Record low F ( C) 9 Average rainy days ( 0.01 inch) 5 5 4 4 5 5 5 4 7 5 3 5 59 In the city, the populace was distributed as follows: 32.2% under the age of 18, 8.9% from 18 to 24, 23.5% from 25 to 44, 20.7% from 45 to 64, and 14.7% 65 years of age or older.
Falfurrias is served by the Brooks County Independent School District.
Falfurrias Lasater School [Grades Pre-K - 1st] Falfurrias Elementary School [Grades 2nd - 5th] Falfurrias Jr.
Falfurrias High School [Grades 9th - 12th] Falfurrias and Brooks County were featured in a 2014 Latino USA story on illegal immigration in South Texas. Brooks County Courthouse (Texas) a b c "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Falfurrias city, Texas".
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