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 amongst Corpus Christi and Harlingen, Kingsville is the principal city of the Kingsville Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is allowance of the larger Corpus Christi-Kingsville Combined Statistical Area. The population was 26,213 at the 2010 census, and in 2019 the U.S. Census Bureau estimated the population at 25,315.

Named in rave review of Richard King, the city was founded to give infrastructure for the adjacent King Ranch, as without difficulty as further 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. It is house to Texas A&M University-Kingsville, a aficionada of the Texas A&M University System, and Naval Air Station Kingsville, one of the U.S. Navy’s three locations for plane aviation training.

The history of Kingsville is contiguously intertwined taking into account the city’s main creek, the Santa Gertrudis. The first recorded inhabitants of the area were the Coahuiltecan Malaquites, surviving on seafood from genial Baffin Bay, with settlements along the Santa Getrudis and San Fernando creeks, and the Cayo del Grullo branch of Baffin Bay. Large herds of mustangs roamed the south Texas plains, often drinking from the waters of spring fed creeks in and concerning present-day Kingsville. In 1803, Jose Lorenzo de la Garza conventional a pact along the Santa Gertrudis. In 1846, General Zachary Taylor and his army camped along the banks of the Santa Gertrudis prior to their demonstrate into Mexico. In 1899, after many unsuccessful attempts, King ranch official Robert J. Kleberg, Jr., was finally nimble to tap into an underground lake of water. The discovery of readily accessible water paved the pretension for a superior settlement adjacent to the ranch.

With the continued mass of the King Ranch in the mid to late 19th century, the desire for a railroad through the region increased, both to be close to the communities of the Rio Grande Valley to the land of Texas, and to relief the King Ranch. At the slant of the 20th century, Henrietta King, widow of Richard King, deeded a ration of the ranch to entice the construction of a town and to bring a railroad against the ranch. Robert J. Kleberg, Jr. formed the Kleberg Town and Improvement Company in 1903, tasked considering planning and constructing the town, at the bequest of his mother-in-law, Henrietta. In 1904, the community was planned three miles (4.8 km) from the King Ranch headquarters and was named in honor of the founder of the King Ranch, Richard King. The community would also home the headquarters of the newly formed St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway, a harmony that was reached in imitation of railroad magnate Benjamin Yoakum. The first buildings were constructed, track was laid through the town, and the first train passed through Kingsville on July 4, 1904, considered the founding date of the city. Kingsville’s first declare office was also time-honored that year.