âº the process of teaching or learning in a school, or the knowledge that you get from this: a high school/college education. âº Education is also the study of methods and theories of teaching:
In 2010, El Paso received an All-America City Award. El Paso has been ranked the safest large city in the U.S. for four consecutive years and has ranked in the top three since 1997. As of July 1, 2015, the population estimate for the city from the U.S. Census was 681,124. Its U.S. metropolitan area covers all of El Paso and Hudspeth counties in Texas, and has a population of 838,972. The El Paso MSA forms part of the larger El PasoâLas Cruces CSA, with a population of 1,053,267.
In the mid-1930s gas and oil were discovered in Wharton County and spawned the local petroleum and oil-service industries. The Texas Company (now Texaco, Incorporatedqv) established a branch office in El Campo. In 1930 the town had a population of 2,034 and 160 businesses. In 1941 the town had 3,906 residents and twenty-two businesses; the population was 6,216 in 1952, 7,700 in 1961, and 9,995 in 1970.