Texas Real Estate & Relocation Guide

Ingleside, Texas

Population: 9,388

Located in San Patricio County

Ingleside is on Corpus Christi Bay on the jutting arm of land known as Ingleside Point at the eastern tip of San Patricio County. Developments of the community have been known as Old Ingleside, Inwood, Ingleside Cove, Ingleside-on-the-Bay, Palomas, Cove City, and Cove, among others.

The community began in 1854 when settler George C. Hatch purchased land on both sides of the bayou. He subsequently acquired more than 3,800 acres of land and sold acreage to Walter Ingalls, Henry Nold, James Aware, John Pollard, John W. Vineyard, and other settlers, who built homes on the bayou and at Ingleside Cove. Tradition credits John Vineyard with naming Ingleside ("Fireside") for his ancestral home in Scotland.

In 1909 developers Burton and Danforth laid out the present Ingleside townsite, and in 1913 the Ingleside Common School District was formed with a student population of eighty. In 1916 a hurricane destroyed many buildings and again slowed local growth.

When Humble Oil built a tank farm at Harbor City, or Port Ingleside, and announced plans in 1927 for a refinery at Ingleside, construction of a housing complex for employees and the establishment of two local newspapers, the Review and the Index, followed. The population rose and continued to rise, especially when a local Brauer Corporation aluminum fabrication plant opened in 1948 and a Reynolds Metals aluminum reduction plant five miles away opened in 1950.

The Corps of Engineers cut a channel, La Quinta Channel, through Ingleside Point in 1954, thus demarking an area known as Ingleside-on-the-Bay, where the United States Navy built its Homeport in 1995.

Well known for its peaceful neighborhoods and the vibrant growth of its business, retail, and recreational amenities, Ingleside's quiet streets and feeling of community offer a quality of life for families of all ages. With a wide choice of homes in all price ranges, and in many sub-divisions, you are sure to find the home of your dreams. Homes here range from the stately to the comfortable, from a Mexican influence to Victorian mansions. Ranches are also popular here, with some homesteads ranging in size from 100 acres and up. And the price is always right here in the South Texas state, with the average home selling for around $80,000.

As more people relocate to Texas, Ingleside is becoming a more popular place to settle because of everything it offers, a sub-tropical climate, wonderful location and exceptional schools. Ingleside may have the name for "fireplace" but that doesn't mean you'll have to use one when you're here!