Port O’Connor is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Calhoun County, Texas, United States, near the Gulf coastline amid Galveston and Corpus Christi. The CDP had a population of 1,253 at the 2010 census. It is share of the Victoria, Texas metropolitan statistical area.

Port O’Connor was laid out in the late 19th century as a fishing pact called “Alligator Head”. As it grew in popularity taking into account both surviving residents and tourists, the community took upon more municipal characteristics, earning the formal designation finally in 1909 as the town site of Port O’Connor. It was named after its main landowner at the time, Thomas M. O’Connor, who owned 70,000 acres (280 km). Aside from local cattle raising and fishing, the town was moreover a producer of figs and citrus fruit.

Its initial population addition spanned the years 1909 to 1919. Excursion trains ran on weekends to Port O’Connor, and an estimated 10,000 tourists came all summer.

Port O’Connor has been struck by four hurricanes back it was initially settled. The 1919 Florida Keys hurricane brought the “good passй days” to a halt, destroying the town. It rebuilt slowly, but the 1942 and 1945 hurricanes so close in mature were hard to overcome. In 1961, Port O’Connor was along with another lump boom due to the accrual of military personnel on nearby Matagorda Island Air Force Base. That thesame year, Hurricane Carla destroyed the town again, but period reflect its will to survive, fueled by tourism, commercial fisheries, and the petrochemical industry. Hurricane Harvey struck the town over in 2017.