Frio County

Frio County, Texas

Frio County, Texas

Frio County Sign in Frio County, Texas. Photograph by Billy Hathorn.
Frio County, Texas

Frio County, Texas

Map of Frio County, Texas. Map Credit: Robert Plocheck.

Frio County, in the Winter Garden Region of Southwest Texas, shares its eastern border with Atascosa County, its southern border with La Salle County, its western border with Zavala County, and its northern border with Medina County. The county is named after the Frio River, which flows northwest to southeast through the county. Pearsall, the county seat, is located on the Union Pacific Railroad fifty miles southwest of San Antonio and seventy miles east of the United States-Mexican border at Eagle Pass. Interstate Highway 35 passes north to south through the communities of Moore, Pearsall, and Dilley. The county's center lies two miles southwest of downtown Pearsall, near 28°52' north latitude and 99°07' west longitude. Frio County forms a rectangle thirty-seven miles east and west and thirty miles north and south; it comprises 719,360 acres or 1,133 square miles. The county is in the Nueces River basin and is drained by the Frio and Leona rivers in the west and by San Miguel Creek in the east.

The county terrain of flat to slightly undulating plains is surfaced by deep to moderately deep, light-colored loam and underlain by limestone and calcareous to neutral clayey subsoils. Hickory, oak, brush, mesquite, huisache, prickly pear, and grasses predominate in the flora. Elevations average 600 feet above sea level and range from 400 feet in far south central Frio County to 800 feet at the summit of Pilot Knob in the northwest. As much as 50 percent of the county is prime farmland.

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Currently Exists

Yes

Place type

Frio County is classified as a County

Altitude Range

400 ft – 763 ft

Size

Land area does not include water surface area, whereas total area does

  • Land Area: 1,133.5 mi²
  • Total Area: 1,134.4 mi²

Temperature

January mean minimum: 35.0°F
July mean maximum: 97.4°F

Rainfall, 2019

24.7 inches

Population Count, 2019

20,306

Civilian Labor Count, 2019

9,959

Unemployment, 2019

6.2%

Property Values, 2019

$3,258,901,550 USD

Per-Capita Income, 2019

$27,545 USD

Retail Sales, 2019

$186,362,354 USD

Wages, 2019

$99,089,869 USD

Frio County

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