Kingsville, Texas

Kingsville, Texas
City
Downtown Kingsville
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Coordinates: 27°30′54″N 97°51′56″W / 27.51500°N 97.86556°W / 27.51500; -97.86556
Country	United States
State	Texas
County	Kleberg
Settled	July 4, 1904 (119 years ago) (1904-07-04)
Incorporated	1911 (113 years ago) (1911)
Named for	Richard King
Government
• Type	Council-Manager
• Mayor	Sam Fugate
• Commissioners	Hector Hinojosa Norma Nelda Alvarez Edna Lopez Ann Marie Torres
• Manager	Mark McLaughlin
Area [1]
• City	13.91 sq mi (36.02 km2)
• Land	13.88 sq mi (35.96 km2)
• Water	0.02 sq mi (0.06 km2)
Elevation	59 ft (18 m)
Population  (2020)
• City	25,402
• Estimate  (2022)[2]	24,833
• Density	1,769.40/sq mi (684.27/km2)
• Metro	34,367
Demonym	Kingsvillian
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP codes	78363-78364
Area code	361
FIPS code	48-39352[3]
GNIS feature ID	1374386[4]
Website	www.cityofkingsville.com

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.^[5]

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.^[6] 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.