Encino, TX

Encino is a census-designated place in Brooks County, Texas, United States. The 2020 census counted 109 residents. Encino is 18 miles south of the county seat of Falfurrias. Encino is the site of a United States Border Patrol interior checkpoint. Encino makes sense once you see how its past, landscape, and current gathering spots overlap. The useful thing to know about Encino is that its older landmarks and current settings belong to one connected place. Encino is located in what once was a Mexican land grant dating back to 1832 called "La Encantada y Encina del Pozo". The name of the grant, translating in english to "Enchanted Place and Live Oak in a Hole", was inspired by an oak tree of notable size on the land which cattle would gather under for shade which a depression in the soil. The community is situated along U.S. Highway 281, 18 miles south of Falfurrias in southern Brooks County.