Hitchcock is a city in Galveston County, Texas, United States. The population was 6,961 at the 2010 census.

Hitchcock was created as a station of the railroad between Galveston and Houston in 1873 and something like the aim of the 20th century became a vegetable shipping center. The settlement’s economy crashed in the 1930s after insect plagues in the surrounding areas, and the area stayed impoverished until the launch of the Camp Wallace anti-aircraft training base and the Naval Air Station Hitchcock at the coming on of World War II. After the stop of the war, the bases were used as freeing centers, and some former soldiers fixed in the area. Hitchcock was normal in 1960 as the area’s population boomed, topping out at nearly 7,000 by the fade away of the 1960s. Today, the town serves as a suburb of Galveston and houses workers from the Johnson Space Center.^{[citation needed]}

Since 1984, Hitchcock has been house to the Galveston County Fair & Rodeo. The Galveston County Fair & Rodeo began in 1938 and was held at facilities in Runge Park in Arcadia. In the at the forefront 1980s, the County Fair had reached its limits of growth at Runge Park, and plans began for a move to Jack Brooks Park in Hitchcock. The distress to Jack Brooks Park was completed in get older for the 1984 fair.

Hitchcock was affected by Hurricane Harvey in 2017. The director of community development, D. Joe Wood, stated that bankruptcy was a possibility in the post-Hurricane environment.