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Kingsville
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seat of Kleberg County, Texas, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Texas
- County
- Kleberg
- Settled
- July 4, 1904 (121 years ago) ( 1904-07-04 )
- Incorporated
- 1911 (115 years ago) ( 1911 )
- Named after
- Richard King
- Type
- Council-Manager
- Mayor
- Sam Fugate
- Commissioners
- Hector Hinojosa , Norma Nelda Alvarez , Edna Lopez , Lionel "Leo" Alarcon
- Manager
- Charles Sosa
- City
- 13.91 sq mi (36.02 km )
- Land
- 13.88 sq mi (35.96 km )
- Water
- 0.023 sq mi (0.06 km )
- Elevation
- 59 ft (18 m)
- Estimate 2022
- 24,833
- Density
- 1,772.3/sq mi (684.27/km )
- Metro
- 34,367
- Demonym
- Kingsvillian
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county seat
- Official name
- Kingsville
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Kleberg County
- Population
- 25402
- Area
- 35.885057
- Elevation
- 18
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Capital of
- Kleberg County
- Official website
- www.cityofkingsville.com
- Image
- Kleberg courthouse.jpg
- Households
- 9399
- Dialing code
- 361
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- Commons category
- Kingsville, Texas
- topic's main category
- Category:Kingsville, Texas
- postal code
- 78364
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Kingsville, Texas
- inception
- 1904-07-04
- P8168
- Christian Union
- water as percent of area
- 0.1684
- per capita income
- 22367
Sources (9)
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Encyclopedic overview
Kingsville is a city in the southern region of the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Kleberg County. Located on the U.S. Route 77 corridor between Corpus Christi and Harlingen, Kingsville is the principal city of the Kingsville Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is part of the larger Corpus Christi-Kingsville Combined Statistical Area. The population was 25,402 at the 2020 census, and in 2022 the U.S. Census Bureau estimated the population at 24,833.
Named in honor of Richard King, the city was founded to provide infrastructure for the adjacent King Ranch, as well as serve as the headquarters of the newly founded St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway. In 1904, the first tracks were laid and the first buildings constructed for the planned city. In 1911, the city was incorporated. It is home to Texas A&M University-Kingsville, a member of the Texas A&M University System, and Naval Air Station Kingsville, one of the U.S. Navy's two locations for jet aviation training.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kingsville” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.