Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Presidio, TX

Presidio is a border city in Presidio County, Texas, standing on the Rio Grande directly across from Ojinaga, Chihuahua — its name is Spanish for fortress.

Presidio is the largest city in Presidio County, although the county seat is Marfa, and the 2020 census counted 3,264 residents and 1,180 households in the city.

Hispanic or Latino residents made up 95.6 percent of Presidio's population in the 2020 census.

Presidio sits at La Junta de los Rios, the confluence of the Rio Conchos and the Rio Grande, where the floodplain has been farmed since about 1500 B.C. and is believed to be the oldest continuously cultivated farmland in Texas.

Spanish explorer Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca reached the La Junta area in 1535, and Spain later established a penal colony and a 60-man military garrison there around 1760.

The settlement was renamed Presidio del Norte in 1830, gained a post office in 1868 and its first public school in 1887, and the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway arrived in 1930.

Despite its ancient roots, Presidio was not incorporated as a city until 1980, when Herb Myers became its first mayor.

The Presidio-Ojinaga International Bridge, opened in 1986 and expanded with a second span by 2019, links the city to Mexico.

In 2010, Presidio built the world's largest sodium-sulfur battery to back up the city's single connection to the U.S. power grid.

Presidio has a hot desert climate with June average highs around 103 degrees Fahrenheit, a record high of 117 degrees, and only about nine inches of rain a year.