Texas Gulf Coast · TX
Corpus Christi
A bayfront port city named in 1519.
- Population
- 317,863 (2020 census)
- Bay named
- 1519
- NAS Corpus Christi
- March 12, 1941
Then
- 1519
Alonso Álvarez de Pineda is credited with naming the bay for the Feast of Corpus Christi.
- 1839
Henry Kinney and William Aubrey open Kinney's Trading Post.
- 1845–1846
Zachary Taylor's army camps here before the war with Mexico.
- 1919
A hurricane devastates the city on September 14; only three buildings survive on North Beach. A seawall follows.
Now
The Port of Corpus Christi is a leading energy export port. The USS Lexington museum and the Texas State Aquarium sit on North Beach, and Padre Island National Seashore is to the east, past Bob Hall Pier and Packery Channel.
12 tide stations around Corpus Christi
- Texas State Aquarium, USS Lexington1.1 mi
- Nueces Bay5.9 mi
- White Point6.2 mi
- Portland, Nueces Bay6.5 mi
- Viola Turning Basin8.2 mi
- La Qunita Channel North9.3 mi
- Corpus Christi Naval Air Station9.7 mi
- Enbridge, Ingleside11.5 mi
- Packery Channel15.1 mi
- Conn Brown Harbor, Aransas Pass17.6 mi
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- Corpus Christi, Bob Hall Pier18.8 mi
- Bayside, Copano Bay22.2 mi