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Bayview is a town in eastern Cameron County on the Lower Texas Gulf Coast, located sixteen miles east of San Benito and fourteen miles northwest of Port Isabel.

Bayview began as the Bayview Citrus Grove Subdivision, which the Port Isabel Irrigation Company laid out in November 1928 along with the San Roman townsite.

Residents voted 31 to 1 to incorporate on October 30, 1959, largely to stop a proposed trailer court from being built in the citrus grove subdivision, and the order formally creating the town of Bayview was signed on November 5, 1959.

Warren Franklin served as Bayview's first mayor after the town's first election of officers in December 1959.

The 2020 census counted 475 residents in Bayview — the most in the town's history — up from a low of 231 in 1990.

Bayview had 222 households and 189 families in the 2020 census.

Nearly sixteen percent of Bayview's 4.6 square miles is water, reflecting the resacas and bay shoreline woven through the town.

Bayview's 2020 population was split almost evenly, with about 48 percent of residents Hispanic or Latino and about 47 percent non-Hispanic white.

Bayview is part of the Brownsville–Harlingen–Raymondville metropolitan area, and its children attend schools in the Los Fresnos Consolidated Independent School District, with the option to apply to South Texas Independent School District magnet schools.