Beeville, Texas "Beeville"
Beeville, Texas Historic downtown Beeville showing the Rialto Theater Historic downtown Beeville showing the Rialto Theater Location of Beeville, Texas Location of Beeville, Texas State Texas Beeville is a town/city in Bee County, Texas, United States, with an estimated populace of 13,290 in 2013.
The region around the town/city contains three prisons directed by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Many of the stately homes, commercial buildings, and schools in the area, including the Bee County Courthouse, were designed by architect William Charles Stephenson, who came to Beeville in 1908 from Buffalo, New York.
Beeville is a National Main Street City.
Present-day Beeville was established on a 150-acre territory donation made by Ann Burke in May 1859 after the Republic of Texas was took in by the United States.
Bee, Sr., who had served as Secretary of State and Secretary of War for the Republic of Texas.
In 1886, the first barns was constructed through Beeville, stimulating the expansion of the economy and population.
Beeville was incorporated as a town in 1890, but the incorporation was dissolved the following year.
Beeville was reincorporated as a town again in 1908.
The Rialto Theater, one of the Beeville structures designed by W.
The Texas petroleum boom brought in many new residents, which interval the populace of the town/city to 4,806 in 1930.
The United States Navy directed the Beeville Naval Air Station, which trained Navy aircraft pilots amid World War II from 1943 through 1946.
Beeville calls itself "A Honey of a Town".
Cattle grazing on ranch lands between Beeville and Goliad, Texas Entrance sign at Beeville, Texas The city's terrain ranges from flat to gently rolling slopes, set in the South Texas Brush Country.
Beeville is positioned at 28 24 20 N 97 45 3 W (28.405498, -97.750757). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 6.1 square miles (16 km2), all of it land.
Annual rainfall is about 30 inches, fairly evenly distributed throughout the year. According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Beeville has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. The Beeville City Council consists of Mayor David Carabajal, Mayor Pro-tem John Fulghum, Bebe Adamez, Yvonne Dunn, and Randy Forbes. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice operates the Correctional Institutions Division Region IV Office on the grounds of the Chase Field Industrial Complex, the former Naval Air Station Chase Field, in Beeville. In addition, Garza East Unit and Garza West Unit, transfer facilities, are co-located on the grounds of the naval air station, and the Mc - Connell Unit lies about 1 mile (1.6 km) outside the town/city limits. The Beeville Distribution Center is on the grounds of the air station. Hallinan, the author of the 2001 book Going Up the River: Travels in a Prison Nation, described Beeville as a prison town.
At the time Beeville was trying to attract more prison company since the employment is stable.
Hallinan wrote that Beeville was attempting to be "a prison hub, becoming roughly what Pittsburgh is to steel or Detroit is to cars". Beeville is served by the Beeville Independent School District, which has approximately 3,500 students in six schools.
The chief campus of Coastal Bend College in Beeville opened in 1967 with 790 students. Today it has over 3,700 students, more than 1,200 of them full-time.
The Joe Barnhart Bee County Library is positioned in downtown Beeville, directly athwart the street from the Bee County Courthouse. The Beeville Art Museum is a teaching exhibition, relying on traveling exhibitions.
"State and County Quick Facts".
Climate Summary for Beeville, Texas "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
Correctional Institutions Division Region IV Director's Office Texas Department of Criminal Justice, retrieved on May 21, 2010.
Garza East Unit, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, retrieved on May 21, 2010.
Garza West Unit, Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
"Beeville Distribution Center, Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
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