Arroyo City is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in Cameron County,

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, United States. The community had a population of 510 in 2017. It is located within the

Rio Grande Valley Lower Rio Grande Valley (), often referred to as the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) of South Texas, is a region located in the southernmost part of Texas, along the northern bank of the Rio Grande. It is also known locally as the Valley or the 956 (the ...

and the

Brownsville-Harlingen metropolitan area Cameron County is the southernmost county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 421,017. Its county seat is Brownsville. The county was founded in 1848 and is named for Captain Ewen Cameron, a soldier durin ...

History

Mexican herders settled in the area in the 1860s and named it after its location on the

Arroyo Colorado Arroyo Colorado is a river in Hidalgo, Cameron and Willacy Counties, Texas, that flows mostly eastward some from Lake Llano Grande into the Laguna Madre. Arroyo Colorado is a name derived from Spanish meaning "red creek bed". See also * Ar ...

. A post office opened in 1887, then closed in 1907. In 1910, the community had about 10 people and two stores. Scattered houses remained in the area in the 1930s. Several businesses and dwellings remained in the 1970s. In 1990 Arroyo City was marked on Texas state highway maps. The community's population was reported as 510 per a 2017 Official Texas State Map. Vernon "Beau" Nelson, the stepfather of Joey Fischer, initially thought that his murder was tied to a legal dispute over a contract worth thousands of dollars he had with a Chinese shrimp firm based in Arroyo City that he had terminated.

Geography

Arroyo City is located along

Farm to Market Road 2925 A farm (also called an agricultural holding) is an area of land that is devoted primarily to agricultural processes with the primary objective of producing food and other crops; it is the basic facility in food production. The name is used fo ...

and a mile east of

Farm to Market Road 1847 A farm (also called an agricultural holding) is an area of land that is devoted primarily to agricultural processes with the primary objective of producing food and other crops; it is the basic facility in food production. The name is used fo ...

, northeast of Rio Hondo, northeast of Harlingen, and north of Brownsville in northeastern Cameron County.

Education

In 1904, Arroyo City had a school with one teacher and 24 students. Today, the community is served by the

Los Fresnos Consolidated Independent School District Los Fresnos Consolidated Independent School District is a public school district based in Los Fresnos, Texas ( USA). In addition to Los Fresnos, the district serves the towns of Bayview and Indian Lake as well as the communities of Arroyo ...

. Children in the community attend Las Yescas Elementary School, Liberty Memorial Middle School, and

Los Fresnos High School Los Fresnos High School (LFHS) is a public high school located in Los Fresnos, Texas (USA). It is the sole high school in the Los Fresnos Consolidated Independent School District and is classified as a 6A school by the UIL. For the 2021-2022 ...

Media

KVJS is a

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station licensed in the community.KVJS
fcc.gov. Accessed December 15, 2013

References

{{authority control Unincorporated communities in Texas Unincorporated communities in Cameron County, Texas