Hebbronville ( ) is a census-designated place (CDP) in and the county seat of Jim Hogg County, Texas, United States. The population was 4,101 at the 2020 census. It is bordered to the east by Las Lomitas and to the north by Duval County.
Texas State Highway 16 (Smith Avenue) passes through the center of town, leading northward to Freer and southwestward to Zapata. Texas State Highway 359 (Viggie Street) leads northwest to Laredo and northeast to Alice, while Texas State Highway 285 leads east to Falfurrias.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the Hebbronville CDP has a total area of , all land.
Climate
Hebbronville has a borderline humid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification Cfa)/hot semi-arid climate (Köppen BSh). Summers are very hot and humid: 152 afternoons each year top , with 27.6 afternoons reaching and during the summer of 2009 eleven afternoons topped . During July and August combined, all but three mornings stay above and seven mornings per year stay above , with as many as forty mornings staying over this temperature during 1998. The hottest temperature on record has been on July 9, 2009, and the hottest minimum on September 30, 2009, followed by the following day.
During the summer, rain is not common, but when a Gulf of Mexico hurricane moves inland it can be very heavy. From September 11 to 13, 1971, a total of fell over three days from such a system, in four days from September 20 to 23 of 1967, and fell on August 27 and 28, 1909. and on Christmas Day of 2004 when fell in a famous "White Christmas".
Since 1905 the wettest calendar year has been 1995 with and the driest 1996 with , whilst September 1967 has proved the wettest month with . The wettest single day has been September 12, 1971 with .
Origin
thumb|left|The abandoned Hotel Viggo (built 1915) is located across the highway from the [[Jim Hogg County Courthouse in Hebbronville.]]
Hebbronville is located on land which once formed part of Las Noriecitas, one of the earliest ranches founded in the area.
The town's namesake, James Richard Hebbron, acquired land, circa 1880, from the descendants of the original grantee, Ignacio Benavides. With two others, he bought , in what was then Duval County, just above Peña. One of his sons, Arthur Hebbron, came down from California and took charge of running his ranch.
Hebbronville itself was created in 1883, when the Texas-Mexican Railway Company built a railroad through the area. Francisco P. Peña, operator of Peña Station on this route, refused to sell any land to the Texas-Mexican for a townsite. The company then approached J. R. Hebbron, who arranged for the sale of land for the new townsite, near Peñitas. The old train station at Peñitas was then loaded onto a flatcar, moved 1½ miles west and named Hebbronville.
For a time, Hebbronville ranked as the largest cattle-shipping center in the country, and it continues to be a hub of ranching activity.
A photograph of James R. Hebbron hangs in the Jim Hogg County Courthouse at 102 East Tilley Street in Hebbronville. He was born in 1828, in London, England, but spent most of his adult life in California, mainly around Salinas, dying there in 1926.
Demographics
Hebbronville was first listed as an unincorporated community in the 1950 U.S. census;
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!% 2000
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|-
|White alone (NH)
|375
|276
|style='background: #ffffe6; |336
|8.34%
|6.06%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |8.19%
|-
|Black or African American alone (NH)
|22
|18
|style='background: #ffffe6; |5
|0.49%
|0.39%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.12%
|-
|Native American or Alaska Native alone (NH)
|18
|14
|style='background: #ffffe6; |10
|0.40%
|0.31%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.24%
|-
|Asian alone (NH)
|2
|14
|style='background: #ffffe6; |23
|0.04%
|0.31%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.56%
|-
|Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander alone (NH)
|0
|0
|style='background: #ffffe6; |5
|0.00%
|0.00%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.12%
|-
|Other Race alone (NH)
|0
|0
|style='background: #ffffe6; |8
|0.00%
|0.00%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.20%
|-
|Mixed race or Multiracial (NH)
|8
|5
|style='background: #ffffe6; |77
|0.18%
|0.11%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |1.88%
|-
|Hispanic or Latino (any race)
|4,073
|4,231
|style='background: #ffffe6; |3,637
|90.55%
|0.00%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |88.69%
|-
|Total
|4,498
|4,558
|style='background: #ffffe6; |4,101
|100.00%
|100.00%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |100.00%
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2020 census
As of the 2020 census, Hebbronville had a population of 4,101. The median age was 38.3 years. 27.9% of residents were under the age of 18 and 19.5% were 65 years of age or older. For every 100 females, there were 93.8 males, and for every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.9 males.
0.0% of residents lived in urban areas, while 100.0% lived in rural areas.
There were 1,433 households in Hebbronville, of which 37.7% had children under the age of 18 living in them. Of all households, 43.4% were married-couple households, 19.9% were households with a male householder and no spouse or partner present, and 30.6% were households with a female householder and no spouse or partner present. About 25.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.