Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Aransas Pass, TX

Aransas Pass is a Texas Gulf Coast city that straddles three counties at once - Aransas, Nueces, and San Patricio - and takes its name from the nearby Aransas Pass strait between the bays and the Gulf of Mexico.

About 76% of the city's total area of 52.4 square miles is water, since Aransas Pass sits on the shore of Redfish Bay between Corpus Christi Bay to the south and Aransas Bay to the north.

A six-mile causeway and a free vehicle ferry connect Aransas Pass to Mustang Island and the beach town of Port Aransas.

Aransas Pass long called itself the 'Shrimp Capital of Texas' - in its shrimping heyday more than 300 shrimp boats worked out of Conn Brown Harbor - though the city now markets itself as 'Saltwater Heaven' as the shrimp industry has shrunk.

The city has celebrated its shrimping heritage with the annual Shrimporee festival since 1948, held each June with seafood cook-offs, live music, and rides.

Aransas Pass is home to the first designated paddling trail in Texas, reflecting its reputation for bay fishing and kayaking around Redfish Bay.

The 2020 census counted 7,941 residents in Aransas Pass living in 3,195 households, with about two-thirds of homes owner-occupied and a median age of 45.8 years.

Most local students attend schools in the Aransas Pass Independent School District, including Aransas Pass High School, and Del Mar College is the designated community college for the area.

Football coach Emory Bellard, the inventor of the Wishbone offense at the University of Texas and later head coach at Texas A&M, was an Aransas Pass native.

Hurricane Harvey battered Aransas Pass in 2017, and the storm became a turning point in the city's push to rebuild and reposition its downtown.