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Rockport is the county seat of Aransas County, a small Gulf Coast city on Aransas Bay about thirty miles northeast of Corpus Christi.

Rockport was incorporated in 1870 and is named for the rock ledge that underlies its shoreline.

Rockport's first economy was cattle — after the Civil War it was a key port for processing and shipping beef — and boat building, fishing, and tourism expanded after the railroad arrived in 1886; by the 1920s through the 1940s its shrimping industry boomed.

Hurricane Harvey made landfall near Rockport as a Category 4 storm on August 25, 2017, making the town the storm's ground zero; federal assessors estimated that about 35% of the community was completely destroyed.

Rockport Beach is the first beach in Texas certified as a Blue Wave Beach by the Clean Beaches Coalition, and it has been voted Texas' number-one beach by USA Today readers.

Birders flock to Rockport each winter for the endangered whooping cranes that winter at nearby Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, a spectacle celebrated by the town's annual Whooping Crane Festival.

More than 200 artists make the Rockport-Fulton area their home, anchored by the Rockport Center for the Arts, and the Texas Maritime Museum in Rockport chronicles the Gulf Coast's seafaring history.

Rockport students attend the Rockport-Fulton Independent School District, shared with the neighboring town of Fulton, site of the historic Fulton Mansion State Historic Site.

Rockport counted 10,070 residents in the 2020 census, up from 8,766 in 2010, and the Census Bureau estimated its population at 11,348 by July 2025.

Rockport has about 5,692 households, but they average just 1.84 people each, among the smaller household sizes in Texas — and the area's population roughly doubles in the winter months with visiting Winter Texans.