Census Data for El Gato
As far as we can tell, El Gato has not been included in past Census counts, so there is no population information for this community.
While we don't have census information for El Gato, you might be interested in some nearby communities where we do:
- Alamo
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Donna
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- San Juan
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Pharr
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Weslaco
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- McAllen
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Progreso
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Edinburg
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Hidalgo
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Progreso Lakes
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Progreso Lakes is located in Hidalgo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Progreso Lakes
- Elsa
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Mercedes
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
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- Edcouch
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Granjeno
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Granjeno is located in Hidalgo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Granjeno
- La Villa
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- La Villa is located in Hidalgo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Villa
Hidalgo County ...
El Gato is located in Hidalgo County<2>.
For more information, please visit our Census Page for Hidalgo County.
Miscellaneous Information for El Gato ...
The Federal government has assigned various identifying codes to each community, county and state. At one time or another, the US Census Bureau has used one (or more) of the following identifiers when referring to either Hidalgo County or the community of El Gato:
- The GNIS Codes ...
- The current system of identification is called the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). The following GNIS codes relate to El Gato:
- GNIS ID for El Gato: 1381015
- GNIS ID for Hidalgo County: 1383893
- GNIS ID for State of Texas: 1779801
- The FIPS Codes ...
- An earlier (and largely obsolete) identification method was called the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS):
- State Code: 48 (Texas)
- County Code: 215 (Hidalgo County)
- Place Code: 23032 (El Gato)
- State & County Code: 48/215 (Texas / Hidalgo County)
- State & Place Code: 48/23032 (Texas / El Gato)
- Misc. Census Codes ...
- El Gato is located in Census Region #3 (the South Region) and Division #7 (the West South-Central Division).
For more information about the various Federal identification codes, please visit our Misc Page for El Gato.
Footnotes ...
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