Mission, Texas Mission, Texas City of Mission Location of Mission, Texas Location of Mission, Texas Mission is a town/city in Hidalgo County, Texas.
Mission is part of the Mc - Allen Edinburg Mission and Reynosa Mc - Allen urbane areas.
Mission is positioned at 26 12 41 N 98 19 17 W (26.211402, -98.321277). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 24.1 square miles (62 km2), of which, 24.1 square miles (62 km2) of it is territory and 0.04% is water.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 32.1% under the age of 18, 9.8% from 18 to 24, 26.8% from 25 to 44, 17.1% from 45 to 64, and 14.2% who were 65 years of age or older.
The United States Postal Service operates in the town/city of Mission. Local zip codes include 78571, 78572, 78573, and 78574.
Mission shares the same economic expansion that close-by Mc - Allen appreciates.
The Mission Economic Development Authority promotes evolution in the area.
The town/city has been advertised as the "Home of the Ruby Red Grapefruit" since 1921, due to the fruit being generally grown in the area.; the town/city is also home to the Texas Citrus Exchange.
The town/city holds an annual parade along Conway Avenue called the Texas Citrus Fiesta Parade, which features fruit-decorated floats, bands, law enforcement agencies, and fire departments, and many small-town and town/city government officials.
It is the locale of the First Lift Station of the Mission Canal Company that once irrigated 15,000 acres (61 km2) of farmland in the Rio Grande Valley.
William Jennings Bryan, presidential candidate and former Secretary of State, lived for a time in Mission Burroughs, writer of Naked Lunch, lived in Mission for a short while and wrote about it in Junkie Jorge Cantu, MLB player from Sharyland High School, who played for Tampa Bay Rays, Cincinnati Reds, Florida Marlins, Texas Rangers, San Diego Padres, and now playing for Colorado Rockies Koy Detmer, brother of Heisman Trophy winner Ty Detmer, played for and carried the Mission Eagles football team to the Semi-finals in Texas 5 - A football under the leadership of his father, Sonny Detmer Tom Landry, Hall of Fame coach of the Dallas Cowboys, born and raised, played for Mission High School Jamaar Taylor, attended Mission High School and played football, later being drafted by the New York Giants.
Then after his retirement he helped coach at Mission Veterans Memorial High School for a brief period.
Most of Mission is a part of the Mission Consolidated Independent School District.
In addition, South Texas Independent School District operates magnet schools that serve the community.
Mission is also the site of San Juan Diego Academy, a Catholic high school directed by the Catholic Diocese of Brownsville.
The College of Health Care Professions Mc - Allen, TX Campus: Programs offered at this locale include: Diagnostic Medical Sonography, Limited Medical Radiologic Technologist with Medical Assisting Skills, Medical Assistant, Medical Coding and Billing - Health Information Technology and Physical Therapy Technician.
The Mc - Allen, TX Campus serves and accepts inhabitants of Mission as well as encircling communities. The Speer Memorial Library serves Mission. The facility has 48,760 square feet (4,530 m2) of space. The library originated in March 1914, when the Civic League of Mission was formed to maintain a park and form a library.
In 1929 the City of Mission passed an ordinance making the library a part of the town/city government.
At a later time it moved to the Mission City Hall.
From the early 1930s until 1947 the town/city library shared facilities with the school library.
A new library, designed by Warren Suter, an architect from Mission, was constructed in 1976 and 1977.
The official culmination date of the 14,000 square feet (1,300 m2) library was June 1, 1977.
"Home of the Grapefruit (Mission slogan)".
"Aldine thrashes mission 54-21 despite Detmer's 364 yards.".
City of Mission.
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