Reid Hope King, TX

Reid Hope King is a small census-designated place in southern Cameron County, just north of State Highway 4 and about five miles east of downtown Brownsville. The 2020 census counted 667 residents. The highway forms the southern edge of the community, running west toward Brownsville and east toward Boca Chica Beach and the Gulf of Mexico. That makes Reid Hope King part of a very recognizable Lower Rio Grande Valley corridor, with the city close by and the coast at the end of the same road.

The community is residential and is served by Brownsville Independent School District, with South Texas Independent School District magnet schools also available to local students. Its footprint is less than a square kilometer, so the place is defined by close neighborhood connections and its position within the larger Brownsville–Harlingen metropolitan area. Reid Hope King first appeared as a census-designated place in 2000, giving a formal statistical shape to a community that had developed by the 1990s. The result is a compact place with a distinctly local name, a school-centered daily life, and a highway that ties it to both the city and the beach.