San Elizario, Texas
El Paso County
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San Elizario is a city in El Paso County in the U.S. state of Texas. The city had 2010 13.603 inhabitants on an area of 25.7 square km. San Elizario is right on the Mexican border at the border river Rio Grande near El Paso and Ciudad Juárez.
History
Before 1760 was located on the site of the future town of San Elizario a place called " Hacienda de los Tiburcio ", which in 1865 had about 160 inhabitants. 1789 was the place to seat the Spanish province of administration, and the resultant to the administration site was given the name San Elizario.
Prior to the establishment of the Santa Fe Trail San Elizario was an important transit and destination of supply. After the independence of Mexico the place belonged to the province of Chihuahua. By a River diversion of the Rio Grande San Elizario was located since 1831 on an island in the river. 1841 was one of the place just over 1000 inhabitants. 1847 the place was occupied by the Texas troops, and 1848 San Elizario officially part of the Republic of Texas.
As in 1850, the El Paso County was established, he was named San Elizario for the county seat, and the city remained, except for brief interruptions, administrative headquarters until 1873., 1851, the first post office was opened. After 1873 the city began to lose importance. The most famous event in history is probably the "Salt War of San Elizario " in 1877, when it came to the combative dispute about salt mining rights east of the city. Many men died in the course of the debate, and part of the population fled across the Rio Grande to Mexico. When the railway line was built in 1881 according to El Paso and San Elizario thus got no train connection, it went downhill economically with the city.
While holding the population to 1904 at about 1500, but the residents choice declined in the following decades, to 300 in 1931. Starting in the 1940s, the number of inhabitants rose early 1960s, 1064 and reached. Since then the city grew considerably, the population increased within a decade of 4385 in 1990 to 11046 in 2000 to.