Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Alice, TX

Alice is the county seat and largest city of Jim Wells County, in the South Texas brush country west of Corpus Christi.

Alice grew out of the defunct community of Collins, about three miles to the east, after the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway pushed through the area in the 1880s and local residents moved to the new shipping point.

The town was established in 1888 and was first named Bandana, then Kleberg, and finally Alice — after Alice Gertrudis King Kleberg, the daughter of Richard King, founder of the King Ranch.

From 1888 to 1895, Alice was the world's largest cattle shipping point.

Alice is nicknamed the "Hub City of South Texas" for its position between Corpus Christi, McAllen, Laredo, and San Antonio, and oil discovered in the area in the 1930s made it a hub of the South Texas petroleum industry.

Alice is recognized as the "Birthplace of Tejano Music": in the mid-1940s, Armando Marroquín Sr. of Alice and his partner Paco Betancourt of San Benito launched Ideal Records, the first home-based recording company devoted exclusively to Tejano artists.

Alice was also home to Freddie Records and Hacienda Records, which were dominant players in Tejano music in the 1970s and 1980s.

The Beefmaster cattle breed was developed in the Alice area.

Alice is the birthplace of two Nobel Prize winners: Robert F. Curl Jr., who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996, and James P. Allison, who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2018.

Alice had 17,891 residents at the 2020 census, down from 19,104 in 2010.