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Eagle Pass is the county seat of Maverick County and had 28,130 residents in the 2020 census.

Eagle Pass was the first American settlement on the Rio Grande, beginning as Camp Eagle Pass, a temporary Texas militia outpost set up to stop illegal trade with Mexico during the Mexican-American War.

Eagle Pass got its name because the contour of the hills where the Rio Grande flows was said to resemble the outstretched wings of an eagle; the crossing was earlier known in Spanish as El Paso del Águila for the Mexican eagles seen there.

General William Leslie Cazneau founded the Eagle Pass townsite in the 1840s, and trader Rick Pawless opened a trading post called Eagle Pass in 1850.

Fort Duncan, a U.S. Army post established in 1849 just outside town, has been restored and now anchors a city park and museum near the International Bridge.

Maverick County was organized in 1871 and Eagle Pass was named its county seat, a role it still holds today.

The Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway reached Eagle Pass in 1882 and was extended across the river into Piedras Negras, turning the town into an important international rail and trade center.

Eagle Pass faces Piedras Negras, Coahuila, across the Rio Grande, and the two cities form one of only six binational metropolitan areas along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Eagle Pass is connected to Mexico by three international bridges, including the Eagle Pass–Piedras Negras International Bridge, the Camino Real International Bridge, and a Union Pacific railroad bridge.

Eagle Pass has about 9,140 households, with an average of just over three people per household.