E. Lopez, TX

E. Lopez is a small census-designated place in Starr County, Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley near Rio Grande City and the Mexican border. The CDP sits in the same cluster of rural roads and compact settlements that gives Starr County its distinctive map. The name is the part likely to trip people up: it appeared as East Lopez for the 2010 census, then changed to E. Lopez before the 2020 count. The 78582 ZIP code ties it to the county's Rio Grande City side.

The school connection is Rio Grande City Grulla Independent School District, which serves this stretch of Starr County. Census counts put the community at 166 people in 2010 and 136 in 2020, making it a small place with a clear local identity but few formal boundaries beyond its CDP label. The local scoop is that E. Lopez is not a shortened nickname floating loose on a map; it is the current Census name for East Lopez, a compact Starr County community shaped by border-valley roads, school routes, and nearby Rio Grande City.