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Bishop, in southwestern Nueces County, began as Julia Siding, a stop on the Driscoll Ranch, before Corpus Christi insurance agent F. Z. Bishop bought a large parcel of land there in 1910 and founded the town that bears his name.

Bishop was planned with unusual care for a brand-new town — before the first lots went on sale on May 30, 1910, it already had a complete modern sewage system, eight miles of graded streets, two miles of cement sidewalks, a $35,000 electric light and water plant, and a telephone system.

Bishop's first school opened in September 1910 in a three-room frame building with just sixteen children enrolled, though enrollment grew to sixty by the end of that first term.

Bishop became a cotton boomtown: in 1923 some 30,000 bales of local cotton were marketed for more than $4,000,000, earning Bishop the nickname 'Cotton Capital of the Coast.'

Bishop later added a second agricultural title, 'Grain Mart of the Coastal Bend,' after local farmers combined an impressive 3,000 pounds of grain to the acre in 1941.

Bishop's population peaked at 3,722 in the 1960 census and stood at 3,174 in the 2020 census, spread across 1,122 households.

Bishop is a majority Hispanic or Latino community — about 72.6% of residents identified as Hispanic or Latino in the 2020 census.

Bishop sits on U.S. Highway 77 (Interstate 69E) about eight miles north of Kingsville and roughly thirty miles southwest of Corpus Christi, with a humid subtropical climate of hot, humid summers and mild winters.

Local students attend the Bishop Consolidated Independent School District, which runs Bishop High School — relocated to a new building in the fall of 2010 — Luehrs Junior High School, Bishop Elementary School, Bishop Primary School, and Petronila Elementary School.

Del Mar College is the designated community college for Bishop and all of Nueces County.