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Converse is a city in northeastern Bexar County, Texas, about fifteen miles northeast of downtown San Antonio, and part of the San Antonio metropolitan area.

Converse was named for Major James Converse, the chief engineer of the Southern Pacific Railroad, who bought a tract of land including the townsite in 1877 as the railroad was built from Houston toward San Antonio.

A post office was established in Converse in 1878, and by 1885 the town reported a population of just thirty, growing up around a railroad stop amid farms settled largely by German families.

By 1896 Converse had a saloon, two cotton gins, and a grocery, and the community later reportedly had the oldest 4-H Club in Texas.

Converse's German heritage shows in the Salatrillo Liederkranz, a German singing society that has been active in the community for many years.

Converse was incorporated as a city in 1952 and has grown into a fast-growing San Antonio suburb along the Interstate 35 corridor's southern end.

Converse had a population of 27,466 in the 2020 census, up sharply from 18,198 in 2010, and the Census Bureau estimated it at more than 32,000 by 2025.

Converse has about 10,288 households according to Census QuickFacts, with a larger-than-average 2.86 persons per household.

Most of Converse is served by the Judson Independent School District, while a southern portion of the city falls in the East Central Independent School District.

Converse covers roughly seven square miles of what was once farmland and ranchland northeast of San Antonio, much of it now filled with subdivisions.