Mission, Texas, United States

Economy | Geography

🇺🇸 Mission is a city in Hidalgo County, Texas, United States. Mission is part of the McAllen–Edinburg–Mission and Reynosa–McAllen metropolitan areas.

Economy Mission shares the same economic growth that nearby McAllen is experiencing. The Mission Economic Development Corporation promotes development in the area.

The city has been advertised as the "Home of the Ruby Red Grapefruit" since 1921, due to the fruit being commonly grown in the area. The city is also home to the Texas Citrus Exchange. The city holds the annual Texas Citrus Fiesta Parade along Conway Avenue, which features fruit-decorated floats, bands, law enforcement agencies, and fire departments, and many local and city government officials.

Moore Air Force Base (deactivated) is located 15 miles (24 km) north of the city. It is the location of the First Lift Station of the Mission Canal Company that once irrigated 15,000 acres of farmland in the Rio Grande Valley.

Geography Mission is in southern Hidalgo County. It is bordered to the east by McAllen, the largest city in the county, to the north by Palmhurst, to the west by Palmview, and to the south by the Mexico–United States border along the Rio Grande.

The Interstate 2/U.S. Route 83 freeway passes through Mission, south of the centre of town. The highway leads east 5 miles (8 km) to downtown McAllen and 41 miles (66 km) to Harlingen. Interstate 2 ends 7 miles (11 km) west of Mission; US 83 leads west 34 miles (55 km) to Rio Grande City.

According to the United States Census Bureau, Mission has a total area of 34.1 square miles (88.2 km²), of which 0.1 square miles (0.2 km²), or 0.20%, is covered by water.

Mission, Texas, United States 

Mission has a population of over 85,621 people. Mission also forms one of the centres of the wider McAllen-Edinburg-Mission metropolitan area which has a population of over 986,000 people.

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Twin Towns, Sister Cities Mission has links with:

🇲🇽 Allende, Mexico 🇲🇽 Autlán de Navarro, Mexico 🇲🇽 Axochiapan, Mexico 🇲🇽 Cadereyta Jiménez, Mexico 🇲🇽 Casimiro Castillo, Mexico 🇲🇽 Ciudad Ayala, Mexico 🇲🇽 General Terán, Mexico 🇲🇽 Linares, Mexico 🇲🇽 Monclova, Mexico 🇲🇽 Ocuituco, Mexico 🇲🇽 Puente de Ixtla, Mexico 🇲🇽 Puerto Vallarta, Mexico 🇲🇽 Salinas Victoria, Mexico 🇲🇽 Valle Hermoso, Mexico 🇲🇽 Villa del Carbón, Mexico
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Antipodal to Mission is: 81.677,-26.214

Locations Near: Mission -98.3233,26.2138

🇺🇸 McAllen -98.229,26.203 d: 9.5  

🇲🇽 Reynosa -98.278,26.092 d: 14.2  

🇺🇸 Pharr -98.187,26.175 d: 14.3  

🇺🇸 Edinburg -98.161,26.299 d: 18.7  

🇺🇸 Rio Grande City -98.817,26.367 d: 52  

🇺🇸 Brownsville -97.496,25.906 d: 89.4  

🇲🇽 Heroica Matamoros -97.5,25.867 d: 90.9  

🇲🇽 Matamoros -97.505,25.853 d: 91.1  

🇺🇸 Laredo -99.492,27.51 d: 185  

🇲🇽 Cadereyta Jiménez -100,25.6 d: 181.1  

Antipodal to: Mission 81.677,-26.214

🇲🇺 Mahébourg 57.7,-20.407 d: 17487.3  

🇲🇺 Centre de Flacq 57.718,-20.2 d: 17481.3  

🇲🇺 Rivière du Rempart 57.633,-20.05 d: 17467.3  

🇲🇺 Curepipe 57.517,-20.317 d: 17465.9  

🇲🇺 St Pierre 57.517,-20.217 d: 17462.2  

🇲🇺 Vacoas-Phoenix 57.493,-20.3 d: 17462.9  

🇲🇺 Moka 57.496,-20.219 d: 17460.2  

🇲🇺 Quatre Bornes 57.479,-20.266 d: 17460.3  

🇲🇺 Mauritius 57.499,-20.162 d: 17458.3  

🇲🇺 Port-Louis 57.496,-20.165 d: 17458.2  

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