San Benito, Texas San Benito, Texas City of San Benito Location of San Benito, Texas Location of San Benito, Texas San Benito is a town/city in Cameron County, Texas, United States.
The populace was 24,250 at the 2010 census. On April 3, 2007, San Benito jubilated the 100th anniversary of its naming.
On October 25, 1975, on the tv show Hee Haw, Freddy Fender saluted his hometown of San Benito, populace 15,177.
San Benito is part of the Brownsville Harlingen Raymondville and the Matamoros Brownsville urbane areas.
San Benito is known as the "Resaca City".
San Benito was at first titled "Diaz" with respect to Porfirio Diaz, president of Mexico at that time.
The citizens in the San Benito region were dominantly of Mexican ancestry.
Some time later, when the town site was surveyed, the name was changed to "San Benito" with respect to Benjamin Hicks.
Moreno suggested the name "San Benito" for his beloved "Saint Benjamin" Hicks.
San Benito was a village with a moderate number of homes, businesses, churches, and enhance schools a several years before they were incorporated in 1911.
San Benito (Benny) Montalvo was born on September 20, 1907 to Ismael and Francisca Esparza Montalvo.
On the evening he was born, the town/city of San Benito was having a celebration with respect to its new name.
Sam Robertson suggested to Ismael and Francisca Montalvo to name their new son San Benito, which is how Benny got his name.
Enumeration count for the first time, San Benito had turn into a town/city of 4,070 citizens .
As a result of the availability of irrigation water, San Benito and all of the Lower Rio Grande Valley metros/cities came to serve a newly developing agricultural territory.
The mild winter climate in this southmost section of Texas has played a dominant part in the expansion of San Benito and the other metros/cities of the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
San Benito is positioned west of the center of Cameron County at 26 8 12 N 97 38 9 W (26.136603, -97.635878). Interstate 69 - E passes through the city, dominant northwest 6 miles (10 km) to Harlingen and southeast 19 miles (31 km) to Brownsville.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, San Benito has a total region of 16.1 square miles (41.8 km2), of which 15.8 square miles (40.9 km2) is territory and 0.3 square miles (0.9 km2), or 2.12%, is water. San Benito is also known as "The Resaca City", due to its resaca (a former tributary of the Rio Grande, which has been cut off for irrigation purposes).
According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, San Benito has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. The United States Postal Service operates the San Benito Post Office. The San Benito Consolidated Independent School District serves San Benito.
The small-town high school is San Benito High School.
SBCISD has 2 high schools, Veterans Memorial Academy and San Benito High School; three middle schools, Riverside, Berta Cabaza, and Miller Jordan.
In addition, South Texas Independent School District serves San Benito and many close-by communities by providing a several magnet schools.
South Texas Academy of Medical Technology (Med Tech) is positioned in San Benito.
San Benito Public Library is the city's library. IDEA Public Schools also has a school in San Benito.
A list of San Benito's most notable citizens includes: a b "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Enumeration Summary File 1 (G001): San Benito city, Texas".
Climate Summary for San Benito, Texas City of San Benito.
City of San Benito official website San Benito, Tx in Handbook of Texas Online
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