Jim Hogg County is a county located in the U.S. state of
Texas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 5,300. Its county
seat is Hebbronville. It is named for James Stephen Hogg, the
governor of Texas from 1891 to 1895.
Jim Hogg County is in the Rio Grande Plain region of South Texas
twenty-eight miles north of the Mexican border and sixty-six miles
west of the Gulf Coast. The county, named for Governor James
Stephen Hogg, is bordered by Webb, Duval, Jim Wells, Brooks, Starr,
and Zapata counties. Its center lies at 27°05' north latitude and
98°43' west longitude. Hebbronville, the largest town and county
seat, is at the junction of State highways 16, 285, and 359, in the
north central part of the county. Other communities include Agua
Nueva, Altavista, Guerra, Randado, and Thompsonville. The county
comprises 1,136 square miles of flat to gently rolling terrain
vegetated with mesquite, scrub brush, grasses, and chaparral.
Elevations range from 200 to 800 feet. In the east, soils are
sandy, with areas of light color, or have loamy surfaces over very
deep reddish or mottled clayey subsoils. The rest of the county has
loamy surfaces over deep reddish or mottled clayey subsoils, with
limestone near the surface in some areas. In the early 1990s more
than 90 percent of the land was devoted to farming and ranching,
with 2 percent of the farmland under cultivation and 21 percent
irrigated; only 1 percent of the land in the county is considered
prime farmland. Mineral resources include caliche, clay, uranium,
oil, and gas. Temperatures range from 44° F to 69° in January and
73° to 99° in July; the average annual temperature is 73°. Rainfall
averages twenty-three inches a year, and the growing season lasts
305 days.
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