Baytown, Texas Baytown, Texas Bayland Park Baytown Texas-10-11-2008.jpg Baytown is a town/city inside Harris County and partially in Chambers County in the Gulf Coast region of the U.S.
As of 2010, Baytown had a populace of 71,802, and it had an estimated populace of 76,127 in 2014. The region of Baytown began to be settled as early as 1822. One of its earliest inhabitants was Nathaniel Lynch, who set up a ferry crossing at the junction of the San Jacinto River and Buffalo Bayou.
Other early inhabitants of Baytown include William Scott, one of Stephen F.
One of Baytown's first babies born was Gertrude Gardner. The town/city now known as Baytown was originally three separate towns.
With the discernment of the Goose Creek Oil Field, the rival communities of Pelly in the late 1910s, and East Baytown in the early 1920s, advanced as early boomtowns. The "East" in East Baytown was later dropped because it was west of Goose Creek. Serious talk of merging the three metros/cities began shortly after World War I, but the improve of Baytown was opposed to this idea.
The people settled on the name Baytown for the new combined city.
Baytown as it is known today was officially established January 24, 1948. Sterling and his associates, in developing the Goose Creek Oil Field, assembled the first offshore drilling operation in Texas and the second in the United States.
The business later assembled the Baytown Refinery, which would turn into one of the biggest Exxon refineries in the world.
Following the discernment of petroleum nearby, the populace of Baytown and the Tri-Cities boomed.
Many immigrants appeared in Baytown, among them a number of Jewish families who established a Jewish church, K'nesseth Israel, in 1930. Steel manufacturing in Baytown began in 1970 when United States Steel opened the Texas Works near the city.
Baytown joins to I-10 via Highway 146, and the Fred Hartman Bridge joins southwest to La Porte.
Baytown is positioned at the mouth of the San Jacinto River on Galveston Bay, 26 miles (42 km) by road east of Houston.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 36.5 square miles (94.6 km2), of which 35.4 square miles (91.8 km2) is territory and 1.1 square miles (2.8 km2), 2.92%, is veiled by water. Baytown is positioned on the Gulf coastal plain, and its vegetation is classified as temperate grassland and marshes.
The municipalities have been assembled on reclaimed marshes, swamps, and prairies, which are all still visible in undeveloped parts of the Bay Area. Baytown is bordered by water on three sides.
Flatness of the small-town terrain and adjacency to the bay have made flooding a recurring lured for the area. Baytown and encircling communities once relied on groundwater for its needs, but harsh territory subsidence has forced much the town/city to turn to ground-level water sources. The territory beneath Baytown consists of layers of sand and clay to great depths.
Baytown Source: The Weather Channel: Monthly Averages for Baytown, TX Baytown's climate is classified as humid subtropical (Cfa in Koppen climate classification system). Spring supercell thunderstorms sometimes problematic tornadoes (but not to the extent found in tornado alley). Prevailing winds from the south and southeast bring heat from the deserts of Mexico and moisture from the Gulf of Mexico. Summer temperatures typically have highs near 90 F (32 C) though higher temperatures are not uncommon. The city's adjacency to the bay and the winds that it generates moderate the area's temperatures and ease the effects of the humidity, creating a more pleasant climate than inland communities like Houston. Winters in the region are temperate with typical January high of 61 F (16 C) and lows are near 42 F (6 C).
Excessive ozone levels can occur due to industrialized activities; close-by Houston is ranked among the most ozone-polluted metros/cities in the United States. The industries positioned along the ship channel and the bay are a primary cause of the pollution. Although Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula furnish some shielding, Baytown still faces more danger than Houston and other inland communities, especially because of storm surge, as well as harsh territory subsidence in some low-lying areas of town due to excess pumping of groundwater in the 1960s (see Brownwood subdivision) by region refineries and municipalities. Hurricanes Carla (1961), Alicia (1983), and Ike (2008) were the three most damaging hurricanes to affect Baytown.
The centerpieces of Baytown's economies are three industrialized districts the town/city has created, all outside the town/city limits but inside its extra-territorial jurisdiction.
The Exxon - Mobil Baytown Complex, established in 1919, is one of the world's biggest industrial complexes. The Baytown Refinery positioned there is the biggest in the United States. The Bayer Baytown Industrial Park is the biggest of Bayer's U.S.
In addition to the heavy trade in the company community, Baytown is home to the Cedar Crossing Industrial Park.
The Baytown Little Theater is a improve theater in Baytown run entirely by volunteers.
Baytown Nature Center Baytown Nature Center, positioned on a 450-acre (1.8 km2) peninsula along the Houston Ship Channel and surrounded on three sides by Burnet Bay, Crystal Bay, and Scott Bay, is both a recreation region and a wildlife sanctuary that is home to hundreds of bird species, mammals, reptiles, and aquatic species. San Jacinto Mall is a large county-wide shopping mall positioned in Baytown along Interstate 10.
The Baytown Symphony Orchestra, in residence at Lee College, performs a several concerts throughout the year for the appreciatement of the public.
The Baytown Sun serves as the region's newspaper.
Baytown has a council manager form of government.
One of the engines of the Baytown Fire Department The City of Baytown operates the Sterling Municipal Library, which has a compilation of 300,000 items.
The library's space increased to 50,500 square feet (4,690 m2) after bond programs in 1975 and 1995. In addition Baytown inhabitants are served by the Harris County Public Library system.
The Baytown Police Department, has 167 sworn officers and 52 support personnel as of 2014.
Fire, rescue, hazardous materials response, and EMS are provided by the Baytown Fire Department, an all-professional department of approximately 140 sworn members.
Baytown Branch YMCA is positioned in Baytown.
The United States Postal Service operates the Baytown Main Post Office at 601 West Baker Road and the Baytown Post Office "Station A" at 3508 Market Street.
The "Station A" designation is a leftover from Baytown's pre-consolidation days.
Prior to consolidation in 1948 each of the Tri-Cities, (Baytown, Pelly, and Goose Creek), had their own postal service.
After 1948 when the Tri-Cities merged under the name Baytown, Goose Creek's postal service became the chief postal service but they still needed a postal service to service the rest of town so the Old Baytown Post Office became "Station A". Harris County Precinct Two operates Baytown Park, a senior citizen sports complex, at 4500 Hemlock Drive. Baytown Park includes two unlighted baseball/softball fields and toilets. The precinct also operates the Baytown Soccer Complex, positioned north of Baytown at 9600 North Main Street in an unincorporated area. The complex has eight soccer fields; four are lighted and four are unlighted. Harris County Hospital District operates the Baytown Health Center in Baytown.
The Fred Hartman Bridge, which joins Baytown to La Porte Harris County Transit provides enhance transportation. The Baytown Park and Ride lot is positioned on the side of San Jacinto Mall. Harris County Transit also offers a bus line that runs along Decker Drive, Garth Road, North Main Street, Baker Road, and Rollingbrook Drive connecting most of Baytown's primary shopping areas with Lee College.
Greyhound Bus Lines operates the Baytown Station at Baytown Travel Express. Baytown Airport is a privately owned general aviation airport in unincorporated Harris County positioned north of Baytown.
RWJ Airpark is a privately owned airport three miles (5 km) east of Baytown in Beach City.
Baytown is served by Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas (METRO) express route 236 Maxey Road/Baytown amid the rush hours, sending commuters to downtown Houston Baytown is linked to Interstate 10 (see map) by State Highway 146 (Lanier Freeway) and Spur 330 (Decker Drive).
It is also linked by the Fred Hartman Bridge, which crosses into the town/city from close-by La Porte; the bridge was assembled in 1995, replacing the Baytown Tunnel, to allow a deeper ship channel.
East Harris County and West Chambers County are served by Lee College, a two-year improve college. Baytown is served by the Goose Creek Consolidated Independent School District.
Based in Baytown, the precinct has 14 elementary schools (grades K-5), 5 junior highs (grades 6 8), 3 high schools (grades 9 12), a longterm position center, and two alternative centers for education.
The precinct serves all of Baytown, Highlands, outlying areas of East Harris County, and a small portion of Chambers County.
Baytown Christian Academy, Light House Baptist Academy, St.
Baytown Christian Academy is positioned on 5555 North Main Street near Baytown. Buddy Wakefield, champion slam poet, was raised in Baytown.
William Broyles, Jr., Oscar-winning screenwriter, co-founder of Texas Monthly magazine; raised in Old Baytown, Robert E.
Wanda Garner Cash, open government promote and former publisher of The Baytown Sun Quentin Coryatt, former NFL player and Texas A & M linebacker; attended Baytown Lee High School Macey Cruthird, actress born in Baytown Bobby Fuller, modern musician best known for his single "I Fought the Law"; born in Baytown John Hagee, pastor of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas; born in Baytown Brother Jack Mooring is the keyboardist for the band, also from Baytown.
Ell Roberson III, former Kansas State University quarterback; graduated in 1999 from Baytown Lee High School Wayne Smith (born 1943), Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from Baytown since 2003 Clint Stoerner, former Dallas Cowboys and University of Arkansas quarterback; 1996 Baytown Lee graduate Dwayne Stovall, born in Baytown in 1966, businessman in Cleveland, Texas, school board member, and unsuccessful Republican candidate for the United States Senate in the major election held on March 4, 2014 (Source: personal memories of her friends and Baytown Sun articles January 26, 2003 and 03/01/2004) Bob Lanier, born and raised in Baytown.
Debra Lehrmann, (maiden name Debra Herman), raised in Baytown.
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