Official Name: | Buena Vista, Cameron County, Texas |
Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community |
Pushpin Map: | Texas#USA |
Pushpin Label: | Buena Vista |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Texas |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Cameron |
Timezone: | Central (CST) |
Utc Offset: | -6 |
Timezone Dst: | CDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -5 |
Elevation Ft: | 13 |
Coordinates: | 26.245°N -97.3489°W |
Area Code: | 956 |
Blank Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank Info: | 1378066 |
Buena Vista is an unincorporated community in Cameron County, Texas, United States. It is located within the Rio Grande Valley and the Brownsville-Harlingen metropolitan area.
There was a brief period of settlement in Buena Vista in the 1930s. County highway maps of that year showed several farms here. Buena Vista continued to be listed on county maps in the 1960s, but there were no population estimates in 2000.
Buena Vista is located 24miles northeast of Brownsville in northeastern Cameron County. It is just north of the Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge.
Buena Vista had its own school in the 1930s. Today, the community is served by the Los Fresnos Consolidated Independent School District. Children in the community attend Palmer-Laakso Elementary School, Los Cuates Middle School, and Los Fresnos High School.