GARDENDALE, TX (NUECES COUNTY) GARDENDALE, TEXAS (Nueces County). Gardendale was at a site near the western edge of present Corpus Christi in eastern Nueces County. It was established in the early 1900s and bounded roughly by South Alameda Street and the Texas-Mexican Railway. At one time a school and several stores operated there. In 1954 it was annexed by Corpus Christi.