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Crystal City is a city in South Texas and the county seat of Zavala County, located about 110 miles southwest of San Antonio on U.S. Highway 83.

Land developers Carl F. Groos and E. J. Buckingham bought the 10,000-acre Cross S Ranch in 1905, sold off most of it as farmland, and platted the townsite of Crystal City in 1907, naming it for the clear artesian water of the area.

Crystal City was incorporated in 1910, when it had an estimated 530 inhabitants, and in 1928 voters moved the Zavala County seat there from Batesville.

Crystal City promotes itself as the "Spinach Capital of the World": onions were the first big crop shipped out by rail, but by the 1930s spinach had become the signature crop of the surrounding Winter Garden District.

On March 26, 1937, local spinach growers erected a statue of the cartoon sailor Popeye in Crystal City, honoring the character whose spinach eating had popularized the vegetable, and the statue still stands in front of city hall.

The first annual Spinach Festival was held in Crystal City in 1936; suspended during World War II, it was resumed in 1982 and is still celebrated each November.

During World War II, the federal government operated a large internment camp just outside Crystal City for Japanese, German, and Italian families, and the camp's population peaked at almost 3,400 people in December 1944.

Crystal City holds a landmark place in Mexican American political history as the founding home of the La Raza Unida Party.

Helped by the Del Monte cannery, Crystal City's population climbed to about 9,101 in 1960, probably its all-time high, while the 2020 census counted 6,354 residents.

Crystal City anchors the Winter Garden Region of Southwest Texas, where irrigation and mild winters support year-round vegetable farming, with leading crops including spinach, cotton, pecans, corn, and onions.