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Rangerville is a village in southwestern Cameron County in the Rio Grande Valley, on Farm Road 1479 about four miles southwest of Harlingen, and it was incorporated in 1958.

The community was named for a Texas Ranger camp maintained near the Old Military Road, which had been laid out during the Mexican-American War.

By 1922 Rangerville had an estimated 50 inhabitants and five businesses, and a post office operated there from 1924 to 1942.

With the arrival of irrigation and citrus-fruit farming in the early 1920s, Rangerville became a shipping point for the surrounding farms, though by the late 1940s it had shrunk to two stores, a church, and about 80 residents.

The Census Bureau counted 203 people in Rangerville in 2000, rising to 289 in 2010, then 255 residents living in just 62 households at the 2020 census.

Rangerville covers about 3.5 square miles, of which roughly 1.5 percent is water, and it is part of both the Brownsville–Harlingen–Raymondville and Matamoros–Brownsville metropolitan areas.