Carrizo Springs: US83 @ US85
The South Texas brush country defines the setting of Carrizo Springs — low, open ground and mesquite scrub give this Dimmit County seat a distinctly borderlands character. US Highways 83 and 277 make the town a road junction in a sparsely populated stretch of Texas, linking local communities with routes toward the Mexican border and central Texas. Carrizo Springs is also the administrative centre of Dimmit County, a role that concentrates public services and everyday commerce along its main streets. Ranching, irrigated farming and energy development have long shaped the wider county, while the town takes its name from the springs and carrizo reed beds that once marked this site.
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Carrizo Creek and the spring-fed terrain that gave Carrizo Springs its name define the setting of Carrizo Springs — water has long concentrated settlement in the semi-arid brush country of Dimmit County. The city is the county seat and remains a commercial and civic centre for the ranching and agricultural lands around it. Surveyor Levi English founded the settlement in 1865; its name recalls carrizo, the Spanish word for the reed that grew near the springs. Carrizo Springs lies inland between San Antonio and the Rio Grande border, away from Texas’s largest urban corridors. Browse additional webcams from the surrounding area to extend your view of South Texas.
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