Pharr was the Republican nominee for Louisiana governor in 1908, as his father John Newton Pharr had been in 1896. Pharr was director of the State National Bank of New Iberia, Louisiana, and was a former president of the Louisiana–Rio Grande Sugar Company and the Louisiana–Rio Grande Canal Company, which at one time owned 8,000 acres (32.4 km 2) and which, in 1910, built the town of Pharr on this land. For a number of years centering around early 1900, Henry N. The community was named after sugar planter Henry Newton Pharr. The Pharr city limits extend south in a narrow band to the Rio Grande and the Pharr–Reynosa International Bridge into Mexico.Īccording to the United States Census Bureau, Pharr has a total area of 23.4 square miles (60.7 km 2), of which 0.03 square miles (0.07 km 2), or 0.12%, is covered by water. It is bordered to the west by the city of McAllen, to the north by Edinburg, the county seat, to the east by San Juan, and to the southwest by Hidalgo. Pharr is part of the McAllen–Edinburg–Mission and Reynosa–McAllen metropolitan areas.
Pharr is connected by bridge to the Mexican city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 70,400, and in 2019, the estimated population was 79,112. Pharr is a city in Hidalgo County, Texas, United States.
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