Census Data for Scissors
As far as we can tell, Scissors 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 Scissors, you might be interested in some nearby communities where we do:
- Donna
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Weslaco
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Alamo
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Progreso
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Progreso Lakes
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Progreso Lakes is located in Hidalgo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Progreso Lakes
- San Juan
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Mercedes
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Pharr
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Elsa
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- McAllen
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Edcouch
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Hidalgo
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
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- Edinburg
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- La Villa
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- La Villa is located in Hidalgo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Villa
- La Feria
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
Hidalgo County ...
Scissors is located in Hidalgo County<2>.
For more information, please visit our Census Page for Hidalgo County.
Miscellaneous Information for Scissors ...
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 Scissors:
- The GNIS Codes ...
- The current system of identification is called the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). The following GNIS codes relate to Scissors:
- GNIS ID for Scissors: 1346805
- 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: 66248 (Scissors)
- State & County Code: 48/215 (Texas / Hidalgo County)
- State & Place Code: 48/66248 (Texas / Scissors)
- Misc. Census Codes ...
- Scissors 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 Scissors.
Footnotes ...
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