Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Robstown, TX

Robstown was established about 1906-1907 at the junction of the Texas Mexican Railway and the St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway in north-central Nueces County, when Iowa land speculator George H. Paul bought more than 10,400 acres of the Driscoll Ranch to promote a new town.

The town took its name from Robert Driscoll Jr., whose small shop was known locally as "Rob's Store" — locals began calling the surrounding settlement "Rob's town," and the name stuck.

Robstown incorporated in 1912 and grew on Winter Garden truck farming and, after 1930, on oil discovered in Nueces County; a state historical marker records that 1,282 iced railroad cars of vegetables were shipped from Robstown in the 1943-44 season alone.

The Texas State Legislature officially recognizes Robstown as the birthplace of Texas hold 'em poker, a game locals were playing in the early 1900s before it was introduced to Las Vegas in 1967.

Robstown's school teams are the Cotton Pickers, a mascot honoring the generations of local families who worked the surrounding cotton fields — and the first plow built to clear mesquite for those fields, the Mrazek Plow, was invented in Robstown in 1908 by Tom Mrazek.

In April 1972, hundreds of Mexican American students staged walkouts at Robstown schools to protest discriminatory practices and demand a Chicano studies program, an episode remembered as part of the Texas Chicano civil rights movement.

Robstown had a population of 10,143 at the 2020 census, down from 11,487 in 2010 and a peak of 12,849 in 1990, and about 92% of residents identified as Hispanic or Latino in 2020.

Robstown has about 3,339 households, and its Robstown Area Historical Museum, opened in 1999, preserves local artifacts, while the post office holds a 1941 federally commissioned mural, Founding and Subsequent Development of Robstown, Texas, painted by Alice Reynolds.

Robstown is a western suburb of Corpus Christi at the intersection of U.S. Highway 77 and State Highway 44, and Del Mar College is the designated community college for the city and all of Nueces County.

Robstown is home to Tesla's 1,200-acre lithium refining plant, a $375 million facility that broke ground in 2023 and began operating in December 2024 to produce battery-grade lithium hydroxide.