Kingsville, Texas

In 1803, Jose Lorenzo de la Garza established a settlement along the Santa Gertrudis.

In 1846, General Zachary Taylor and his army camped along the banks of the Santa Gertrudis prior to their campaign into Mexico.

In 1899, after many failed attempts, King ranch manager Robert J.

formed the Kleberg Town and Improvement Company in 1903, tasked with planning and constructing the town, at the bequest of his mother-in-law, Henrietta.

In 1904, the first tracks were laid and the first buildings constructed for the planned city.

In 1909, a library was established, an opera house built in 1910, and by 1911, the city was incorporated and the first city government was chartered.

In 1911, the city was incorporated.

Two years later, in 1913, Kingsville was named the county seat of the newly established Kleberg County.

In 1916, a Category 4 hurricane made landfall at Baffin Bay and directly hit Kingsville, inflicting nearly $100,000 of damage.

Around 1920, oil and natural gas were discovered near Kingsville, leading to the city's first population boom.

The Ku Klux Klan had a presence in the town, boosting a mayor to election in 1922, and was responsible for the lynching of a visiting African-American physician from nearby Bish...

In 1925, the South Texas Teachers College opened, one of only six normal schools in the entire state of Texas at the time, and the only south of College Station, Texas.

In 1941, a naval air station opened in nearby Corpus Christi, after lobbying efforts by Congressman Kleberg, and began training pilots for the Navy and Marine Corps.

NAS Kingsville has had a large economic impact on the city since it opened in 1942.

In 1944, the Celanese Corporation opened a plant north of Kingsville that is still in operation today.

57.1 percent of all housing units were built between 1950 and 1979.

Following World War II, the field was placed into a mothball status, but reopened shortly thereafter in 1951, and has been continuously operating since.

Ambassador to Nicaragua from 1967 to 1970 Matthew Dear, music producer, D.J.

The mine, called the Kingsville Dome mine and processing plant, has operated on and off between 1989 and 2009, and produced nearly 4.2 million pounds of uranium through an in si...

In early 1997, Kleberg County commissioners ruled changed the official greeting to heaven-o at the request of Leonso Canales, Kingsville Flee Market owner, who said, "I see ‘hel...

Only 9.9 percent were built in 2000 or later.

=== 2007-2011 ACS 5-Year Estimate === There were 25,994 residents in 9,103 households, and 5,837 families living in the city.

== Demographics == In 2009, the population density of Kingsville was 1,848.8 inhabitants per square mile (713.8/km2).

In 2018, KISD received an 'F' rating from the Texas Education Agency, and no grade for 2019, due to data integrity.

The school closed in 2019.