The bays do not close your books. A date on a reservation does.
Aransas County is the Gulf, the bays, and Rockport. If you took money for a week that has not happened, or for a boat that has not gone out, that cash is not the same as a finished sale. The rest of this page is how that gets written down without a trip to an office.
Aransas County is on the Gulf Coast, northeast of Corpus Christi, and the seat is Rockport. It was established in 1871 from Refugio County. The name comes from Aransas Bay. The county file says that bay was named for an early Spanish fort, and that the fort's name was supposedly taken from a Spanish palace, Aranzazu, a Basque phrase for a place of thorns.
The handbook says Copano Bay, St. Charles Bay, and Aransas Bay divide the county, with the Gulf of Mexico on the east, and that the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway serves it. State highways 35 and 361 cross it. Along the coast it describes sandy beaches.
The work beside that water is not one crop. The handbook says tourism began to play a significant role between 1890 and 1900. It says commercial fishing was flourishing at Rockport by the early 1890s, and that shrimping developed in the 1930s. It also describes a shipbuilding trade that grew in the early twentieth century, including yard work at Rockport in World War I and again in World War II. If your books are in Rockport, the week is often a season, a boat, or a guest who has not arrived.
Put the rendition on the calendar before you argue about the rate. Business personal property renditions for Aransas County go to the county appraisal district, due April 15, on the district's own form.
The July 2026 Comptroller figure used here is a county sales tax of 0.5%. State sales tax is 6.25%. A city rate stacks on top. The combined cap is 8.25%. This page does not assign a rate to each town on the bay.
The franchise report is due May 15. Texas has no state income tax. The report and the sales-tax return are still there.
Rockport's economy, in the handbook's telling, stacked up in layers: tourism mattering by 1900, commercial fishing flourishing by the early 1890s, shrimping developing in the 1930s, and shipyard work in both world wars, including the Navy's use of the Rockport Yacht and Supply Company. Copano Bay, St. Charles Bay, and Aransas Bay cut the county, with the Gulf on the east and the Intracoastal Waterway as a road for boats. State highways 35 and 361 are the land version. A finished shrimp trip, with ice and fuel and crew money, is not a cottage week whose date is still ahead.
St. Mary's lost its wharves to the storms of 1886 and 1887. That is history. Your trip sheet is this week. Put the finished trip on one line and any still-ahead reservation on another. Summer will lie if those lines collapse, and January will lie in the other direction. The handbook's farm-road numbers are not columns unless the trip actually used one.
QuickBooks Online gets shared so the two lines can live somewhere besides your head. They travel by a secure link. Teams is 30 minutes, pointed at one upcoming date. Steven sets the bank feed beside ice, fuel, and that date, and leaves the unfinished date as money you still owe. A short written note arrives before the weekend you are about to run. Returns move by e-signature. Pick the time on the booking link. The book stays in Rockport. No Palmieri counter sits on Highway 35.
If you want the longer version of a different trade, use the industry list.
A future-dated deposit is enough of a reason to book a look.
Book a time to separate deposits from earned weeks
Sources:
Handbook of Texas: Aransas County
County sales tax is the July 2026 Texas Comptroller figure supplied in the project county file. Seat, year, name, and the county it was formed from are the same file.