Hebbronville

Hebbronville is a census-designated place (CDP) in and the county seat of Jim Hogg County, Texas, United States. The population was 4,558 at the 2010 census. In 1918, Helen Sewel Harbison became the first woman in Texas to cast a ballot, two years before the implementation of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.The Colegio Altamirano, founded by settlers of Spanish ancestry who wanted their children to learn Spanish culture, was an institution in Hebbronville from 1897 until its closing in 1958.The community calls itself the "Vaquero Capitol of Texas and the USA."GeographyHebbronville is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 5.9sqmi, all of it land.ClimateHebbronville 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 90F, with 27.6 afternoons reaching 100F and during the summer of 2009 eleven afternoons topped 110F. During July and August combined, all but three mornings stay above 68F and seven mornings per year stay above 77F, with as many as forty mornings staying over this temperature during 1998. The hottest temperature on record has been 118F on July 9, 2009, and the hottest minimum 88F on September 30, 2009, followed by 87F the following day.