Fulton, Texas
Town in the United States in Aransas County
About Fulton
Fulton is a town in Aransas County, Texas, United States. As of 2026, this South Texas coastal fishing community had a population of 1,655. The town is named for George Ware Fulton, a land developer in the area.
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How Fulton is governed
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Residents of Fulton
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Land use, zoning, building permits.
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City Clerk
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City Attorney
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- Website
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Population over time
From 1,358 in 2010 to 1,523 in 2020 (+12.2%).
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| Year | Population |
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| 2020 | 1,523 |
| 2010 | 1,358 |
History
Fulton was founded in 1866, and named by George Ware Fulton, Sr., whose wife Harriet Smith Fulton inherited 11,000 acres (4,500 ha) on the northern end of the Live Oak Peninsula, including the area where Mr. Fulton created the town he named for himself. Fulton had been a teacher in Indiana and decided to come to Texas by flatboat with 60 other men during the war for independence between Texas and Mexico. After the long trip to Texas, George Fulton found that the war was over but he joined the Army of the Republic of Texas for a few months. He worked for Henry Smith, the first Governor of Texas, and married Smith's daughter, Harriet. They raised a family and moved around the country as George found jobs supervising railroads and building bridges. When Harriet inherited 48,000 acres of the Texas coast, they moved back to live on the Live Oak Peninsula.
After ten years, the Fultons built a large house, now known as the Fulton Mansion, just south of the town. The Fulton's owned thousands of cattle wandering on their extensive lands, and formed a cattle company with others. Mr. Fulton built slaughterhouses and patented a chilled slaughterhouse, the first in the world. The town quickly became the site for many slaughterhouses as cattle from south Texas were driven to Fulton. The cattle slaughterhouses lasted until the 1880s when railroads reached the area and provided ways to ship live cattle to population centers such as Chicago.
In 1930, some evidence of a prehistoric settlement was found in the Fulton area, possibly Karankawan.
On August 25, 2017, Hurricane Harvey made landfall near Fulton at category 4 intensity. It caused significant damage to the town such as destruction to the Fulton Mansions chimney and roof causing water damage on the inside as well. As of the town itself, hotels, homes, and structures were destroyed later causing a 3-5 year recovery from all the debris in the small town of Southeast Texas.
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