Ingleside is located on the southeast tip of San Patricio County, on the Corpus Christi Bay. The early communities of Ingleside have been known as Old Ingleside, Inwood, Ingleside Cove, Ingleside-on-the-Bay, Palomas, Cove City, and Cove. The earliest community began in 1854 when George C. Hatch purchased land on both sides of the bayou. He later acquired over of land, which he sold to Walter Ingalls, Henry Nold, James Aware, John Pollard, John W. Vineyard, and others. They built homes on the bayou and at Ingleside Cove. Local lore and legend credits John Vineyard with naming Ingleside, which means "Fireside". Vineyard named Ingleside for his ancestral home in Scotland.