FY2024 USDA AFIDA public-record summary · FIPS 48215

Foreign Ownership of Agricultural Land in Hidalgo County, Texas

Name: FY2024 AFIDA public-record summary for Hidalgo County, Texas
Creator: AFIDA Watch

The FY2024 USDA AFIDA dataset used by AFIDA Watch contains 579 records associated with Hidalgo County, Texas, representing 221,562.77 reported acres and 301 distinct Owner IDs. Mexico, United Arab Emirates, and Portugal are the leading reported country/source categories by acreage. Owner names are display labels; county and owner aggregations use source Owner IDs.

Reported acres221,562.77Sum of Number of Acres

AFIDA records579FY2024 source rows

Distinct Parcel IDs579Deterministic parcel count

Distinct Owner IDs301Owner names are display labels

Country/source codes26AFIDA-reported source field

AFIDA data for Hidalgo County

This county profile summarizes reported interests in the FY2024 AFIDA source data. It does not locate exact parcels, determine beneficial ownership, or establish motive, wrongdoing, legal status, or national-security significance.

Acquisition-year record

Reported acquisition years range from 1911 through 2024 across 56 distinct years.

The source field is Acquisition Year. It is not relabeled as Purchase Year.

Leading reported country/source categories

Ranked by reported acres

Country/source category	Reported acres	County share	Records
MEXICOSource code 484	69,817.00	31.5%	91
UNITED ARAB EMIRATESSource code 784	68,134.38	30.8%	97
PORTUGALSource code 620	26,304.65	11.9%	19
UNITED KINGDOMSource code 826	15,365.00	6.9%	5
BERMUDASource code 60	7,749.00	3.5%	1

Country names and codes are source fields. Special AFIDA codes remain separate and are not treated as countries.

Reported land-use composition

County total

Land use	Reported acres	Share
Pasture	104,849.44	47.3%
Crop	95,508.96	43.1%
Other Agriculture	16,743.22	7.6%
Other Non-Ag	2,637.46	1.2%
Forest	1,823.69	0.8%

Leading AFIDA Owner IDs

Limited public view

Owner IDs are stable source identifiers within this FY2024 dataset. Owner names below are display labels only and do not establish beneficial ownership or cross-year identity.

Owner display label / Owner ID	Country/source	Reported acres	County share	Parcels
MCALLEN DE CHAPA, MILDREDOwner ID 3823	MEXICO	36,357.00	16.4%	1
Monte Alto Windpower LLCOwner ID 35282	UNITED ARAB EMIRATES	35,939.59	16.2%	68
ALONSO, JUAN, MARY & PEDROOwner ID 3822	MEXICO	27,290.00	12.3%	1

Reported value fields

Not calculated from one another

Purchase Price - as reported$123.55M

Positive: 438
Reported $0: 47
Blank: 94

Estimated Value - as reported$55.87M

Positive: 141
Reported $0: 433
Blank: 5

Current Value - as reported$264.33M

Positive: 531
Reported $0: 48
Blank: 0

Reported-zero convention: A reported $0 means the FY2024 AFIDA source dataset used for this profile records zero in that field. It does not establish why zero was reported.

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Source and methodology

This page uses USDA FSA AFIDA FY2024 underlying public data. Rows are identified by Report Year + Owner ID + Parcel ID. County and owner rollups use Owner ID; owner names are display labels. Dollar fields are presented as reported and are not calculated from one another.

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Dataset fingerprint: SHA-256 592664aaa9bb5328154b9d6f418ca212540b83e9b8a3855512c1c69261fb6fb2
Report year: FY2024 · County FIPS: 48215