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About McAllen, Texas
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McAllen, Texas
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       Images, from top down, left to right: Chase Bank Tower in downtown McAllen; Bentsen Tower in downtown McAllen; PNC Bank Building (formerly BBVA Compass Building) in North McAllen; McAllen Convention Center at night; McAllen Performing Arts Center; Interior of the Quinta Mazatlan; Entrance to McAllen Public Library
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“The City of Palms”
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Location within Hidalgo County
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 McAllen
Location within Texas
McAllen
Location within the United States
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26ยฐ12โฒ59โณN 98ยฐ14โฒ11โณW๏ปฟ / ๏ปฟ26.21639ยฐN 98.23639ยฐW |
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| Country | United States |
| State | Texas |
| County | Hidalgo |
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| ย โขย Type | Council-Manager |
| ย โขย City Council | Mayor Javier Villalobos Tony Aguirre (District 1) Joaquin J. Zamora (District 2) Julian Omar Quintanilla (District 3) Rodolfo “Rudy” Castillo (District 4) Victor Sebastian Haddad (District 5) Pepe Cabeza de Vaca(District 6) |
| ย โขย City Manager | Roel “Roy” Rodriguez |
| ย โขย Texas State Representative | Robert Guerra |
| ย โขย Texas State Senator | Juan Hinojosa |
| ย โขย U.S. Representative | Monica De La Cruz |
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| ย โขย City | 62.73ย sqย mi (162.48ย km2) |
| ย โขย Land | 62.31ย sqย mi (161.37ย km) |
| ย โขย Water | 0.43ย sqย mi (1.11ย km2) |
| Elevation | 121.4ย ft (37.1ย m) |
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| ย โขย City | 142,210 |
| ย โขย Density | 2,283/sqย mi (881.3/km) |
| ย โขย Urban | 779,553 (US: 56th) |
| ย โขย Urbanย density | 2,389.7/sqย mi (922.7/km2) |
| ย โขย Metro | 870,781 (US: 65th) |
| Time zone | UTCโ6 (CST) |
| ย โขย Summer (DST) | UTCโ5 (CDT) |
| ZIP Codes |
78501โ78504
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| Area code | 956 |
| Sales Tax | 8.25% |
| GNIS feature ID | 1374829 |
| Website | www |
McAllen is the largest city in Hidalgo County, Texas, United States, and the 22nd-most populous city in Texas. It is located at the southern tip of the disclose in the Rio Grande Valley, on the MexicoโUnited States border. The city limits extend south to the Rio Grande, across from the Mexican city of Reynosa. McAllen is very nearly 70ย mi (110ย km) west of the Gulf of Mexico. As of the 2020 census, McAllen’s population was 142,210. It is the fifth-most populous metropolitan area (McAllenโEdinburgโMission) in the come clean of Texas, and the binational ReynosaโMcAllen metropolitan area counts a population of higher than 1.5 million.
From its agreement in 1904, the Place around McAllen was largely rural and agricultural in character, but the latter half of the 20th century had steady growth, which has continued in the 21st century in the metropolitan area. The launch of the maquiladora economy and the North American Free Trade Association led to an growth in cross-border trading like Mexico.
In 1904, the Hidalgo and San Miguel Extension (now the Sam Fordyce Branch) of the St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway reached the Santa Anita Ranch. John McAllen and his son James had donated house to the railroad to guarantee it would infuriated this area. On December 5, 1904, the McAllen Townsite Company was formed by Uriah Lott, Leonidas C. Hill Sr., John McAllen, James Ballรญ McAllen, and John J. Young. The supplementary community, which was named for John McAllen, had the depot nearest the county seat, Hidalgo, 8ย mi (13ย km) to the south.