Scissors, TX

Scissors is an Hidalgo County CDP and colonia off Farm Road 493, about six miles southeast of Alamo in the Rio Grande Valley. The community developed in the early 1960s, with its first recorded population estimate coming in 1986 when about 450 people lived in roughly 100 dwellings. The 2020 Census counted 3,758 residents. Scissors remains unincorporated and has no post office, so its place in the region is carried by roads, school boundaries, and the surrounding agricultural landscape.

Donna Independent School District serves Scissors, with Stainke Elementary School and Runn Elementary School serving sections of the CDP. That school connection ties Scissors to the larger Donna area, even while the community keeps its own name and map line. The local story is one of fast growth from a small early-1960s settlement into a sizable South Texas CDP, with Farm Road 493 providing the route toward Alamo and the rest of Hidalgo County. Its name appears on the map without a city hall behind it, which is part of the place's character.