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AGUA
DULCE, TEXASNueces
County, Texas Gulf Coast
Highway 44 and FM 70
About 31 Miles E of Corpus
Christi
Population 737 (2000)
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History
in a Pecan Shell
Named after the local creek of the same name, Agua
Dulce is "sweet water" in Spanish.
Founded sometime prior to 1900, a post
office was granted in 1908 and the Agua Dulce Independent School District was
founded two years later. The population of Agua Dulce was 100 in 1914. The school
system merged with Bentonville about the time that the first seismographic survey
in Nueces County was being conducted. This resulted in a minor oil boom with gas
and oil wells developed. During WWII the population increased from 200 to 750.
It has remained more or less at that level ever since. | |
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