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Sunday, September 7, 2008 |
Facts & Stats
| Estimated Population (July 2005) |
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| City of El Paso, Texas |
624,365 |
| Remainder of El Paso County |
130,720 |
| Total for County of El Paso |
755,085 |
| Ciudad Juarez, Mexico |
1,563,973 |
| Total Metro |
2,319,058 |
| Political |
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| Date Incorporated |
1873 |
| Mayor |
John Cook |
| County Judge |
Anthony Cobos |
| Geographical |
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| Time Zone |
Mountain |
| International Ports of Entry |
4 |
| Elevation |
4,000 ft. |
| City of El Paso Land Area |
250.9 sq. miles |
| El Paso County Land Area |
1,058 sq. miles |
| Weather |
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| Mean High Temperature |
76.8 Degrees F. |
| Mean Low Temperature |
50.6 Degrees F. |
| Mean number of days with the sun shining |
310 |
Miscellaneous
- El Paso is the 6th largest city in Texas.
- El Paso is the 21st largest city in the United States.
- Juarez, Mexico, which borders El Paso, is the 5th largest city in Mexico.
- El Paso is the safest city in Texas: Ranked 3rd in the country by FBI data; ranked among 40 largest cities in the United States in 2003.
- The first Thanksgiving in the nation was celebrated on the banks of the Rio Grande in El Paso 1598.
- El Paso features the oldest continuously operating missions in the country.
- El Paso/Juarez/Las Cruces is the largest International Metroplex in the world.
- In October 2005, Entrepreneur magazine ranked El Paso as the No. 1 midsize city in the United States on its Hot Cities for Entrepreneur's list.
- For two years El Paso was ranked second on the list of America’s Safest Cities. Currently, El Paso is ranked third. (list compiled by Morgan Quinto, Kansas-based publishing and research company).
- El Paso has 2,000-year-old pictographs at Hueco Tanks State Park.
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