San Patricio, TX

San Patricio is a city in San Patricio County in the U.S. state of Texas. The 2020 census counted 384 residents. In the 2000 U.S. census, a portion of San Patricio was indicated as being in Nueces County. As of the 1990 U.S. census, the 2010 U.S. census, and the 2020 U.S. census, that particular area is indicated as being in San Patricio County. The short version is that San Patricio carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on San Patricio: its past remains attached to the places people use now. The town was founded in 1829 by empresarios James McGloin and John McMullen. They had received approval from the Mexican government to settle 200 Irish Catholic families on the land —the name meaning Saint Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland.