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Ingleside began in 1854, when George C. Hatch bought land on both sides of the bayou at Ingleside Point on Corpus Christi Bay and sold acreage from his more than 3,800 acres to the first settlers.

Settler John W. Vineyard is credited with naming Ingleside after his ancestral home in Scotland, and over the years the community was also known as Old Ingleside, Inwood, Palomas, Cove City and Cove.

One of the area's first schools, Bay Seminary, was established at Ingleside in 1854, the same year the settlement began.

The present Ingleside townsite was laid out in 1909 by developers E. O. Burton and A. H. Danforth, and the Ingleside Common School District was formed in 1913.

Ingleside boomed after Humble Oil built a tank farm at Port Ingleside and announced refinery plans in 1927, with a company housing complex of paved streets and its own sewer system pushing the population to 1,125 by 1947.

Ingleside was incorporated in 1951 and developed mainly as a residential community on the southeastern tip of San Patricio County, with small slivers of the city extending into Nueces County.

When the Corps of Engineers cut the La Quinta Channel through Ingleside Point in 1954, it separated off the neighborhood that became the separate city of Ingleside on the Bay.

Ingleside was home to Naval Station Ingleside until the 2005 BRAC Commission voted to close the base, and in 2010 the main base property was turned over to the Port of Corpus Christi.

Ingleside counted 9,519 residents in the 2020 census, and the Census Bureau estimated its population had risen to 10,085 by 2025.

Ingleside has about 3,891 households averaging 2.55 people each, and roughly 63% of its homes are owner-occupied.