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Horizon City is a city in El Paso County, Texas, United States. As of the 2020 United States Census, its population was 22,489, reflecting an increase of 5,754 from the 16,735 counted in the 2010 Census.

Horizon City city overview:
Name:	Horizon City city
LSAD Code:	25
LSAD Description:	city (suffix)
State:	Texas
County:	El Paso County
Founded:	1962
Incorporated:	October 22, 1988
Elevation:	4,022 ft (1,226 m)
Total Area:	8.72 sq mi (22.58 km²)
Land Area:	8.71 sq mi (22.57 km²)
Water Area:	0.01 sq mi (0.01 km²)
Total Population:	22,489
Population Density:	2,254.07/sq mi (870.30/km²)
ZIP code:	79927-79928
Area code:	915
FIPS code:	4834832
GNISfeature ID:	1359564
Website:	www.horizoncity.org

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History

The city, incorporated by referendum on October 22, 1988, takes its name from the real-estate development corporation that developed it as a planned community beginning in the early 1960s, the Horizon Corporation. The Horizon Corporation bought up large tracts of land in the southwestern United States, including eastern El Paso County, platted them into subdivisions, and sold lots in them to thousands of people worldwide, often sight unseen, often without access to water or utilities and using questionable sales tactics, between 1962 and 1975. Eventually, the Federal Trade Commission stepped in to stop it in 1981. Only one portion of the development was successful, the area around the intersection of Horizon Boulevard (Texas Farm Road 1281) and Kenazo Street; this became the nucleus of Horizon City.

Much of the land to the east of town consists of undeveloped subdivisions with highly fragmented ownership. The lots in these subdivisions cannot be legally sold and will be difficult to develop due to the 1994 Texas Colonia Act, a state law intended to stop the development of colonias, or neighborhoods underserved by utilities whose residents often live in substandard conditions. It forbids the sale for residential purposes of less than 10 acres of land or the sale of more than 10 acres of land without a guarantee of adequate access to water, sewer services and other utilities. Efforts are currently underway by a local homeowners’ association, the Horizon Communities Improvement Association, to assemble these lots into tracts of land that can be legally developed.