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El Paso (/ ɛ l ˈ p æ s oʊ /; Spanish: [el ˈpaso]; lit. ' the route ' or ' the pass ') is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States.The 2020 population of the city from the U.S. Census Bureau was 678,815, [5] making it the 22nd-most populous city in the U.S., the most populous city in West Texas, and the sixth-most populous city in Texas. [8]
Website. www .epcounty .com. El Paso County is the westernmost county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, the population was 865,657, [1] making it the ninth-most populous county in the state of Texas. Its seat is the city of El Paso, [2] the sixth-most populous city in Texas and the 22nd-most populous city in the United States.
State Highway Loop 375. Loop 375 is a beltway that partially encircles the city of El Paso, Texas. The beltway is mostly a freeway, except for its northern section, which includes at-grade intersections. The highway passes through various areas of El Paso, funneling traffic within and around the city. The road is known locally under different ...
On August 3, 2019, a mass shooting occurred at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, United States. The gunman, 21-year-old Patrick Wood Crusius, killed 23 people [n 1] and injured 22 others. [14] [15] The Federal Bureau of Investigation investigated the shooting as an act of domestic terrorism and a hate crime.
Juan de Oñate, was the New Spain, born in present-day Zacatecas, Zacatecas, Mexico, first explorer to arrive at the Rio Grande near El Paso (near the current small town of San Elizario, which is about 30 miles (48 km) downstream of El Paso), where he ordered his expedition party to rest and where the official act of possession, La Toma, was executed and celebrated, on April 30, 1598.
Fort Bliss is a United States Army post in New Mexico and Texas, with its headquarters in El Paso, Texas.Named in honor of LTC William Bliss (1815–1853), a mathematics professor who was the son-in-law of President Zachary Taylor, Ft. Bliss has an area of about 1,700 square miles (4,400 km 2); it is the largest installation in FORSCOM (United States Army Forces Command) and second-largest in ...
Northeast 54 and Dyer. Northeast El Paso is part of the city of El Paso, Texas and is located north of Central El Paso, and east of the Franklin Mountains.Its southern boundary is variously given as Fred Wilson Boulevard or Cassidy Road and Van Buren Avenue, and it extends northward to the New Mexico state line; some portions of this region lie outside the city limits, including parts of ...
1859 - Anson Mills surveys and lays out a town on Ponce's Rancho and names it El Paso, the layout of Downtown El Paso still follows this original plan. 1873 – El Paso incorporated. [3] 1876 – Lone Star newspaper begins publication. [4] 1881.