EAGLE PASS, a city of south-western Texas, U.S.A., on the Rio Grande, opposite Piedras Negras, Mexico ; a port of entry and the county seat of Maverick county. It is served by the Southern Pacific Railway. The population in 192o was 5,765, of whom 2,711 were foreign-born white; 1930 it was 5,059. Stock, feed and vegetables (notably onions) are raised in the surrounding country, and coal is mined near by. The city was settled about 1846 and incorporated in 1908.