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Hidalgo County

county in Texas, United States
Administrative Area County of Texas Q26519

Facts

23 properties

Identity

Instance of
county of Texas
Inception
January 24, 1852[14]
Official website
www.hidalgocounty.us[16]
Native label
Hidalgo County[26]

Location

Country
United States[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 26.397°, -98.181°[15]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Texas[2]
Shares border with
Brooks County, Starr County, Kenedy County, Willacy County, Cameron County[5][6][7][8][9]

Population and size

Area
4,099[30]
Elevation above sea level
27[29]
Population
871k (775k–871k, n=7)[17][18][19][20][21][22][23]
More facts +12
Capital
Edinburg[4]
Contains the administrative territorial entity
Edinburg, McAllen, Mission[11][12][13]
Different from
Hidalgo County[28]
Geoshape
🗺️ View shape: United States/Texas/Hidalgo County
List of monuments
National Register of Historic Places listings in Hidalgo County, Texas[24]
Located in the statistical territorial entity
McAllen–Edinburg–Mission metropolitan area[32]
NCI Thesaurus ID
C110318[27]
Named after
Miguel Hidalgo Y Costilla[10]
Number of households
243,878 (2020)[25]
Per capita income
17,816 (2020)
Social media followers
30k (17k–30k, n=4)
Water as percent of area
0.8[31]
🏷️ Also known as
en Hidalgo County en Hidalgo County, Texas en Hidalgo County, TX ar مقاطعة هيدالغو ar مقاطعه هيدالغو، تكساس el Κομητεία Ιντάλγκο es Condado de Hidalgo es Hidalgo County fa شهرستان ایدالگو fi Hidalgon piirikunta fr comté de Hidalgo fr comté d'Hidalgo fr Hidalgo County hu Hidalgo megye it contea di Hidalgo it Hidalgo County ja ヒダルゴ郡 ko 히댈고군 pl Hrabstwo Hidalgo pt Hidalgo County
🔖 Identifiers · 44
ISNI
0000000403977765
VIAF cluster ID
131357413
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n81050291
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Hidalgo County Courthouse.jpg ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
20772
BabelNet ID
03808969n
Ballotpedia ID
Hidalgo_County,_Texas
Bing entity ID
a6d2a266-d160-2f8e-1eb6-b483cf23f094
Data Commons ID
geoId/48215
FAST ID
1213209
FIPS 6-4 ID
48215
Freebase ID
/m/0mrf1
Show all 44 identifiers +32
GADM ID
USA.44.108_1
GNIS Feature ID
1383893
GeoNames ID
4697444
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
2002002
Google Maps Customer ID
12613450749439446986
HASC
US.TX.HG
Handbook of Texas ID
hch14
Harper's tag
hidalgo-county-tex, hidalgo-county
House Divided ID
19672
INaturalist place ID
817
J9U entity ID
987007562040205171
KnowWhereGraph entity ID
administrativeRegion.USA.48215
Mapy.com ID
osm&id=1108055129
Mindat locality ID
273542
MusicBrainz area ID
6da64414-33e7-41da-beda-a6bce4a8c8ce
OBO Gazetteer ID
22222663
Open Civic Data Division ID
ocd-division/country:us/state:tx/county:hidalgo
OpenHistoricalMap relation ID
2794220
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1828367
Our Campaigns container ID
5335
Quora topic ID
Hidalgo-County-TX
Reddit topic ID (obsolete)
hidalgo_county
Ringgold ID
144354
Taxonomicon ID
1807904
Topic's main category
Category:Hidalgo County, Texas
U.S. National Archives Identifier
10040062
UMLS CUI
C3811707
Who's on First ID
102083831
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["AdministrativeDivision", {"HidalgoCounty", "Texas", "UnitedStates"}]
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJcC47WfyyC4f8PbBpctrq
X (Twitter) username
hidalgocounty (2008–present), HidalgoCounty
Yale LUX ID
place/43e3f8c6-62f7-4a2f-b54d-c8d5ada73130
📚 Sources · 1
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🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 61
McAllen, Edinburg, Mission, Pharr, Alamo, Alton, Donna, Mercedes +53 more
Shares border with 5
Brooks County, Cameron County, Kenedy County, Willacy County, Starr County
← Shares border with 5
Brooks County, Cameron County, Kenedy County, Willacy County, Starr County
Contains the administrative territorial entity 3
McAllen, Edinburg, Mission
← Category combines topics 3
Category:People from Hidalgo County, Texas, Category:Populated places in Hidalgo County, Texas, Category:Geography of Hidalgo County, Texas
Capital 1
Edinburg
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Hidalgo County, Texas
Country 1
United States
Different from 1
Hidalgo County
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Texas
Located in time zone 1
Central Time Zone
Named after 1
Miguel Hidalgo Y Costilla
People who died here 1
Charles January
Topic's main category 1
Category:Hidalgo County, Texas
← Capital of 1
Edinburg
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Hidalgo County, Texas
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Texas
← Different from 1
Hidalgo County
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Summary

Hidalgo County is a county of Texas[1].

Related Entities

Miguel Hidalgo Y Costilla Texas United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 10w ago · Theklan · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Tabular data series → Data:US presidential elections by county/Hidalgo County, Tex
    "Created claim: Tabular data series: Data:US presidential elections by county/Hidalgo County, Texas.tab, Link US presidential election dataset (P14687, subject: United States presidential"
  2. 11w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → hidalgo-county-tex, hidalgo-county
    Located in time zone → —
    "Created claim: Harper's tag: hidalgo-county, Matched to hidalgo county (#289937576) in Harper's…"
  3. 19w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → hidalgo-county-tex, hidalgo-county
    "Created claim: Harper's tag: hidalgo-county-tex, Matched to hidalgo county tex (#289937577) in H…"
  4. 26w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    UMLS CUI → C3811707
    Taxonomicon ID → 1807904
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #31546"
  5. 26w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Category for people who died here → Category:Deaths in Hidalgo County, Texas
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Texas
    Category for maps or plans → Category:Maps of Hidalgo County, Texas
    Different from → Hidalgo County
    + 23 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: NCI Thesaurus ID: C110318, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1778695477825"
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