Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Portland, TX

Portland is a city in San Patricio County (with a portion in Nueces County) on the Texas Gulf Coast, situated on the second highest bluff on the Gulf Coast and overlooking both Nueces Bay and Corpus Christi Bay.

Portland was laid out in 1890 by John G. Willacy, who purchased the original 640-acre townsite in November 1890 and sold it to the Portland Harbor and Improvement Company in February 1891.

The town was named in honor of Portland, Maine, because most of the stockholders of the New England land companies promoting the townsite lived there, and it became known as the Gem City of the Gulf Coast.

In the 1890s Portland thrived as a vegetable growing and shipping center, sending some of the nation's earliest spring vegetables to northern markets.

Thomas M. Clark bought Portland's vacant boom-era hotel and turned it into Bay View College, which operated until a hurricane destroyed it in 1916.

The city of Portland was not incorporated until 1949, nearly six decades after its founding boom.

Portland has grown from just 192 people in 1900 to a population of 20,383 at the 2020 census, up from 15,099 in 2010, making it the largest city in San Patricio County.

Portland has about 7,554 households with an average of 2.71 people per household, about 63.1% of its homes are owner-occupied, and its median household income is about $83,865.

Portland's students attend Gregory-Portland High School in the Gregory-Portland Independent School District, a school named a U.S. Department of Education Blue Ribbon School of Excellence in 1999-2000.

Portland sits about eight miles north of Corpus Christi on Highway 181, and annexations in 2014 and 2015 expanded the growing city into Nueces County.