Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in San Patricio, TX

San Patricio is one of the oldest towns in South Texas, founded in 1829 by empresarios James McGloin and John McMullen after they received permission from the Mexican government to settle 200 Irish Catholic families on the land.

The colony was formally named Villa de San Patricio de Hibernia — in honor of Saint Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland — when land titles were granted in late 1831.

The Battle of San Patricio, one of the opening fights of the Texas Revolution, was fought here on February 27, 1836, when General Jose de Urrea's surprise dawn attack overwhelmed Colonel Francis W. Johnson's camped Texian force.

The Texian dead from the Battle of San Patricio were buried in what is still known as the Old Cemetery on the Hill.

When San Patricio County was created on March 17, 1836, the town of San Patricio was designated the county seat, a status it held until the seat moved to Sinton in 1894.

San Patricio received a post office in 1848 and was incorporated by an act of the Texas Legislature on February 7, 1853.

Reflecting its Irish Catholic roots, San Patricio gained St. Joseph's Convent, a school for girls, and St. Paul's Academy for boys in 1876.

After losing the county seat, San Patricio declined so far that it disincorporated in 1901 — it was described as a ghost town twice in its history — yet it survives today as a small city on the north bank of the Nueces River.

The 2020 census counted just 384 residents in San Patricio, spread across 3.9 square miles, in a town whose Irish colony already held about 500 people by 1836.