East Bernard is a city in Wharton County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,218 at the 2020 census. U.S. Highway 90 Alternate (US 90A) and Texas State Highway 60 (SH 60) intersect within the city limits. East Bernard has its own theoretical district, two auto dealerships and a number of additional businesses. The San Bernard River flows like the city’s eastern side.

In 2000, East Bernard incorporated. As of 2007, East Bernard is one of Texas’s newest cities.

East Bernard is upon the west side of the San Bernard River at the intersection of State Highway 60 and U.S. Highway 90A, fifteen miles (24 km) north of Wharton in northeast Wharton County. The community was originally on the east side of the river, where Jethro Spivi built the first domicile around 1850; hence the proclaim East Bernard. Settlement was slow until 1859 and the arrival of the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway. A bridge was built, and the depot, Bernard Station, though originally located on the east bank of the river, was moved by 1869 to the west side, to the site of East Bernard’s vanguard Main Street. The flaming of the town grew up all but the railway. The first declare office was standard in 1866, but the community was probably not officially named East Bernard until 1874.

After the Civil War the community began to ensue rapidly, as additional settlers arrived once British surnames. Although Joseph Habermacher operated a increase and saddle shop in Bernard Station some epoch before 1867, the main influx of German and Slavic immigrants came after the 1880s. In the mid-1890s the farming community had a population of 150, and businesses included a steam gin, a gristmill, a telegraph office, and two general stores.