| City: | El Paso, Texas |
| Names to Avoid: | Southern Union Gas Co |
| County: | El Paso County |
| Timezone: | Mountain (GMT -07:00) |
| Local Time: | 8:57:56 AM |
| Population: | No Population Data |
| Area Code: | 915 |
| Classification: | Unique [Company/Government] |
| Coordinates: | 31.7589, -106.4866 |
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Southern Union Gas Company, a natural gas distributor that served the El Paso area beginning in 1944, operated under dedicated ZIP code 79976 in El Paso County, Texas. The company purchased Lone Star Gas Company's El Paso distribution system for $2.7 million, immediately gaining approximately 17,000 customers. Southern Union had been founded in 1929 by Clint Murchison Sr. as Wink Gas Co. and by the 1990s served some 511,000 customers across Texas, including Austin, Brownsville, Galveston, and Port Arthur.
Located near the Cielo Vista North neighborhood, this unique postal designation served the company for more than two decades. In 2003, ONEOK purchased Southern Union's Texas assets to form Texas Gas Service, and the service territory is now operated by ONE Gas, Inc. No current delivery codes remain on file for this ZIP. Census demographic data is not available. El Paso is the valid mailing city.
ZIP Code 79976 is assigned to a single organization or institution. Detailed business demographics are not published for unique ZIP Codes.
| # Residential Mailboxes: | 0Source: USPS |
| # Business Mailboxes: | 0Source: USPS |
| Total Delivery Receptacles: | 0Source: USPS |
| Single Family Delivery Units: | 0Source: USPS |
| Multi Family Delivery Units: | 0Source: USPS |
| # of Businesses: | 0Source: CBP |
| 1st Quarter Payroll: | $0Source: CBP |
| Annual Payroll: | $0Source: CBP |
| # of Employees: | 0Source: CBP |
ZIP Code 79976 is located in El Paso County, Texas, within the El Paso, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area (CBSA 21340). This Metro area has a population of 800,647 people, about 0.00% of whom live in ZIP Code 79976. It covers 0 sq mi of land and a water area of 0 sq mi.
| CBSA Name: | El Paso, TXSource: Census |
| CBSA Number: | 21340Source: Census |
| CBSA Type: | MetroSource: Census |
| CBSA Division: | --Source: Census |
| CBSA Population: | 800,647Source: Census |
| MSA: | El Paso, TX MSASource: Census |
| Land Area: | --Source: Census |
| Water Area: | --Source: Census |
| Congressional District: | No DistrictsSource: USPS |
| Congressional Land Area: | sq miSource: Census |
| PMSA: | --Source: Census |
| Intro Date: | < 2004-10Source: ZIP-Codes.com |
| Place FIPS Code: | 4824000Source: Census |
| Place Name: | El Paso city; TexasSource: Census |
We could not locate which school district 79976 belongs to, but we will update this once new district data is released. There are no public schools nor private schools with a mailing address in this ZIP Code. Listing Nearby schools instead. It also has 6 colleges, universities or post secondary education institutions nearby which would be a short commute to.
Our sources include trusted federal and licensed data from the United States Postal Service, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Geological Survey, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and the National Center for Education Statistics, along with proprietary datasets created by ZIP-Codes.com. Data last updated on February 1, 2026.