Zapata, Texas Zapata, Texas Highway 83 in Zapata, just south of the intersection with Texas State Highway 16 Highway 83 in Zapata, just south of the intersection with Texas State Highway 16 Location of Zapata, Texas Location of Zapata, Texas Zapata County Zapata.svg County Zapata Zapata is a census-designated place (CDP) in and the governmental center of county of Zapata County, Texas, United States. The populace was 5,089 at the 2010 census.
As an unincorporated community, Zapata has no municipal government but like all 254 Texas counties has four propel county commissioners chosen by single-member districts and a countywide propel administrative judge.
7.2.1 Zapata County Independent School District Zapata was titled for Jose Antonio de Zapata (died 1839), the revolutionary commander who served in the cavalry of the Republic of the Rio Grande, of which the town was a part. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the CDP has a total region of 9.6 square miles (25 km2), of which, 7.6 square miles (20 km2) of it is territory and 2.0 square miles (5.2 km2) is water. Leading employers in Zapata County are the educational, community and civil services, natural gas and oil, and retail trade industries.
Figueroa Zapata County Public Library".
Zapata is represented in the Texas Senate by Democrat Judith Zaffirini, District 28, and in the Texas House of Representatives by Democrat Ryan Guillen, District 31.
Senators from Texas are Republicans John Cornyn and Ted Cruz; Zapata is part of Texas' US Congressional 28th District, which is presently represented by Democrat Henry Cuellar.
The United States Postal Service Zapata Post Office is positioned at 810 N US Highway 83.
The United States Border Patrol Zapata Station is positioned at 105 Kennedy Street.
All of Zapata County is inside the Zapata County Independent School District.
The Zapata High School Mariachi Band, Mariachi Halcon, has won the state championship in division 3 - A.
In addition, educational establishments are also available fifty miles to the south in Rio Grande City, through the Starr County campuses of both South Texas College of Mc - Allen and the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley of Edinburg.
Zapata has one school precinct within the county Zapata County Independent School District.
Zapata County Independent School District All of the schools listed here are in the town/city of Zapata.
All of the ZCISD section of Zapata is zoned to Zapata High School: Zapata Middle School[permanent dead link] Zapata North Elementary School[permanent dead link] Zapata South Elementary School[permanent dead link] More world records in hang gliding have been set from Zapata than any other locale in the world.
The World Record Encampment has been taking place at the Zapata County Airport since 2000, and the first hang glider flights to break the 308-mile barrier took place there the first year.
Major highways in Zapata and their starting and ending points: Texas 16.svg Texas State Highway 16 Zapata Wichita Falls Texas FM 496.svg Farm to Market Road 496 Zapata Falcon Mesa Zapata County Airport (FAA: APY) provides general aviation services to Zapata.
Falcon International Reservoir positioned in Zapata is becoming well known for its bass fishing.
Zapata High School Figueroa Zapata County Public Library The rustic Frontier Ranch Museum on State Highway 16 in Zapata The First Baptist Church of Zapata, positioned north of State Highway 16 The United Methodist Church of Zapata.
Side view of the Zapata County Courthouse.
Anderson, James Gerber Fifty Years of Change on the U.S.-Mexico Border 2008 Page 30 "The town of Zapata was not titled for the Mexican revolutionary war hero Emiliano Zapata but rather for Colonel Jose Antonio Zapata, who lost his life in 1839 while fighting to establish the Republic of the Rio Grande." "Zapata" at The Oz Report, retrieved 2008-05-14 Media related to Zapata, Texas at Wikimedia Commons Municipalities and communities of Zapata County, Texas, United States
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