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Rockport is a city and county seat of Aransas County, Texas, United States. The population was 10,070 at the 2020 census . Rockport is adjacent to the town of Fulton , and many refer to the combined communities as "Rockport-Fulton"; however, Rockport and Fulton are legally separate municipalities.
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Rockport Air Force Station (ADC ID: TM-191) is a closed United States Air Force General Surveillance Radar station. It is located 4.1 miles (6.6 km) southwest of Lamar, Texas . It was closed in 1963.
Aransas County (/ ə ˈ r æ n z ə s / ə-RAN-zəss) [1] is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. It is in South Texas and its county seat is Rockport. [2] As of the 2020 census, the population was 23,830. [3] Aransas County comprises the Rockport, Texas micropolitan statistical area.
The port later served as a strategically important locale during the Texas Revolution and the American Civil War, and was the site of a settlement that is now completely abandoned. [5] The town of St. Mary's of Aransas was founded southwest of Copano and thrived as a port and wood mart, until numerous shipwrecks caused by the bay's hidden reefs ...
The airport covers 600 acres (240 ha) at an elevation of 24 feet (7 m). It has two asphalt runways: 14/32 is 5,608 by 100 feet (1,709 x 30 m) and 18/36 is 4,498 by 100 feet (1,371 x 30 m).
Lamar is a small, unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Aransas County, Texas, United States, 10 miles (16 km) north of Rockport and 40 miles (64 km) north of Corpus Christi. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 636. [1] The community was named for Mirabeau B. Lamar, the second president of the Republic of Texas.
State Highway 188 (SH 188) is a state highway in the Coastal Bend region of Texas. It runs 41.327 miles (66.509 km) from Mathis east to Aransas Bay between Rockport and Port Aransas . SH 188 was established in its current form in 1992, after a previous incarnation existed from 1932 to 1942.