The present Texas-New Mexico boundary placing El Paso on the Texas side was drawn in the Compromise of 1850. Further west, a settlement on Coons’ Rancho called Franklin became the nucleus of El Paso, Texas. El Paso County was established in March 1850, with San Elizario as the first county seat.

Not until after 1827 did a village exist on the river’s north bank at the present site of El Paso. It became U.S. territory in 1848, when an army post was built (commemorated by the Fort Bliss Replica Museum).

The first Europeans in all probability were Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and his three companions, survivors of an unsuccessful Spanish expedition to Florida, who passed through the El Paso area in 1535 or 1536, although their exact route is debated by historians.

El Paso averages 3 inches of snow per year. The US average is 28 inches of snow per year.

El Paso cost of living is 81.4

The risk of tornado damage in El Paso is much lower than Texas average and is much lower than the national average.

Here are our findings.

• Huntsville. Huntsville tops our list of safest Texas cities because it has the lowest combined score in reference to occurrences of tornadoes, hail, lightning and floods.
• Amarillo.
• Rockwall.
• Laredo.
• El Paso.
• Schertz.
• Victoria.
• Nacogdoches.

Brownsville, Texas On average, temperatures hit at least 90 degrees on 133 days a year in this city on the southern tip of Texas, according to The Weather Channel. Temperatures don’t soar only in the summertime—Brownsville’s hottest day on record was March 27, 1984, when the high hit 106 degrees Fahrenheit.

So who has the coolest summers? The answer is in the Panhandle, particularly around and north of Amarillo. Amarillo has an average summer temperature of 76.5 degrees, according to the National Weather Service.