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Lamar is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Aransas County on the Texas Gulf Coast, with a population of 724 at the 2020 census, up from 636 in 2010.

Lamar was counted as a census-designated place for the first time in the 2010 census, and the CDP covers 4.9 square miles, of which 3.1 square miles is land and 1.8 square miles is water.

Lamar was founded in 1839 at Lookout Point, on the channel entrance to Copano Bay, and was named for Mirabeau B. Lamar, the second president of the Republic of Texas.

President Lamar agreed to relocate the Republic's custom house to the town, and Lamar prospered as a port and the site of a salt works.

On February 11, 1864, during the Civil War, the Union Navy bombarded Lamar and practically obliterated the town.

Lamar's restored cemetery is designated a Texas historical landmark.

Goose Island State Park lies within the Lamar CDP, 321.4 acres on St. Charles and Aransas Bays whose land was acquired between 1931 and 1935 and whose facilities were built by Civilian Conservation Corps Company 1801 in the 1930s.

Goose Island State Park was set aside in part as wintering grounds for the endangered whooping crane, and it is home to 'The Big Tree,' a southern live oak thought to be more than 1,000 years old that was named the State Champion Coastal Live Oak in 1969.

Lamar sits about 10 miles north of Rockport and 40 miles north of Corpus Christi.