About Penitas, Texas

Penitas is a city in southwestern Hidalgo County with roots in ranching, rail service, schools, and nearby colonias. Local tradition connects its beginnings to Spanish survivors of an early expedition, while documented community institutions appeared in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

  • Name and LocationPenitas means "small stones" in Spanish, and the community lies ten miles northwest of McAllen.
  • First Known SchoolThe earliest known local school opened in 1896 with one teacher and fifteen students.
  • Rail and Postal LinksRail service reached Penitas in 1904, a Sisters of Mercy school opened in 1907, and the post office followed in 1909.
  • Growing ColoniasBy 1976, a Penitas colonia had 194 dwellings and an estimated 990 residents; Nuevo Penitas existed by 1986 with fifty dwellings and 225 residents.
  • 2020 PopulationThe United States Census Bureau counted 6,460 Penitas residents in 2020.

Find your street

Names on the Penitas map

Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.

Places and landmarks9

  • King Ranch Colonia Number 1
  • Puerta Blanca Colonia
  • El Rio Colonia
  • Colonia Camargo
  • Colonia Martinez
  • Daniel Ozuna Colonia
  • Nuevo Penitas Colonia
  • Ramona Colonia
  • Reina Colonia

Streets and roads73

  • West Business Highway 83
  • Penitas Street
  • South Main Street
  • 19th Street
  • FM 1427
  • North Eleventh Street
  • Volcano Avenue
  • Eleventh Street
  • Tom Gill Road
  • Liberty Boulevard
  • Military Road
  • Mile 4 Road
  • Mile 3 Road
  • Diamond Avenue
  • Volcano Road
  • Uranium Avenue
  • Marble Street
  • Sapphire Street
  • Nugget Street
  • Ruby Street
  • Platinum Street
  • Opal Street
  • Quartz Street
  • La Fuente Drive
  • 23rd Street
  • Arboledas Drive
  • Liberty
  • Whiterock Street
  • Rodriguez Street
  • Chihuahua Road
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  • Granite Drive
  • Western View Road
  • Salinas Road
  • Otte Road
  • Blue Jay Avenue
  • Blue Bird Avenue
  • 2 Mile Road
  • Mile 5 Road
  • Quail Avenue
  • Fifth Street
  • Follow Lane
  • Jade Street
  • Ignite Street
  • Circle 6 West
  • Cedar Street
  • La Plaza Drive
  • Alma Street
  • Ash Street
  • Dogwood Avenue
  • Austen Street
  • Gardner Road
  • Ebony Avenue
  • Birch Street
  • Fir Avenue
  • Soliz Street
  • 18th Street
  • South Main
  • Ebony Street
  • Palm Avenue
  • Vela Drive
  • Pino Street
  • Rancho Brazil Road
  • Desperado Circle Drive
  • FM 1427 Road
  • Zamora Street
  • Gardenia Street
  • Garza Street
  • Cindy Street
  • Penitas Park Avenue
  • La Plaza Circle
  • South 19th Street
  • Church Lane
  • West Mile 3 Road

Names are listed as they appear on the printed map. Zoom into the product photos to find them.

The art of mapping a place

How This Map Was Made

Real places. Remarkable detail. Discover the layers that turn geographic data into a map of home.

  1. Aerial imagery of Mendon, Massachusetts, from the USDA NAIP program

    The view from above

    Aerial imagery reveals the character of the land: woodland, open fields, and the patterns of a place.

  2. USGS elevation data rendered as shaded relief of Mendon, Massachusetts

    The shape of the land

    Elevation data brings hills, valleys, and subtle changes in the landscape into view.

  3. Closeup of roads, waterways, and buildings on the Mendon, Massachusetts map

    The details of home

    Roads, waterways, and building footprints come together to make the map feel unmistakably local.

  4. Finished Mendon, Massachusetts map shown in a black frame

    Geography becomes art

    Considered color, shading, and typography bring the layers together in a map made for your wall.

Process illustrated with Mendon, Massachusetts. Aerial imagery: USDA NAIP. Terrain: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Map details and finished artwork: KNOWOL.

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