[7] Carrizo Springs, along with San Antonio, Uvalde, Crystal City, and Corpus Christi, was a major stop on the defunct San Antonio, Uvalde and Gulf Railroad, a Class I line, which operated from 1909 until it was merged into the Missouri Pacific Railroad in 1956.

[8] More recently, Carrizo Springs has become the home of the only olive orchard and oil press in Texas.

[10] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.1 square miles (8.0 km2), of which 3.1 sq mi (8.0 km2) are land and less than 0.01 mi2 is covered by water.

This is believed to occur due to the uplift of moisture from the Gulf of Mexico which is channeled along the Rio Grande River.

These schools serve students in the city: Facilities that previously housed Stratton Oilfield Systems were chosen for a new unaccompanied minor detention site, with an estimated capacity of 1,000 to 1,600 children.

[17][18] When the site was previously considered under Stratton Security management, owner and president Dan Stratton assured the area's residents that potential residents would not be refugees of the Syrian Civil War or speak Arabic.

He emphasized that refugees would be securely kept within the facility and would not interact with or murder area residents.

[20] In March 2022, Border Patrol agents declared "no vacancy" and plans to release migrants who cleared background and criminal checks in the city of Carrizo Springs.