. "361" . "-5" . "5.1e+06"^^ . "0.0"^^ . "Mathis, Texas"@en . "78368" . "977.6"^^ . "977.611"^^ . "5.17998e+06"^^ . "5034"^^ . "49.0728"^^ . . . . . "5.1e+06"^^ . "Small town. Big lake. Great people." . . "49.0"^^ . "5.17998e+06"^^ . . "-6" . "Mathis is a city in San Patricio County, Texas, United States. The population was 5,034 at the 2000 census.In 1887, when the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railroad was laying tracks across San Patricio County, Thomas H. Mathis received naming rights when he donated 300 acres (1.2 km2) for a townsite and school. Mathis and his brother J. M. Mathis, held 37,000 acres (150 km2) in the vicinity. The brothers had dropped out of the Coleman, Mathis, Fulton Cattle Company in 1879."@en .