Bryan, Texas Bryan, Texas Downtown Bryan, 2009 Downtown Bryan, 2009 Location in the state of Texas Location in the state of Texas Bryan is a town/city in Brazos County, Texas, United States.
As of the 2010 census, the town/city had a populace of 76,201. It is the governmental center of county of Brazos County and is positioned in the heart of the Brazos Valley (southeast Central Texas).
It borders the town/city of College Station, which lies to its south.
Together they are referred to as the Bryan College Station urbane area, the sixteenth biggest urbane region in Texas, including around 190,000 citizens . Bryan welcome sign The region around Bryan was part of a territory grant to Moses Austin by Spain.
Among the pioneer was William Joel Bryan, the nephew of Stephen Austin.
In 1866 the governmental center of county of Brazos County was changed from Boonville to Bryan, and a postal service was opened.
In 1867, after many delays caused by the Civil War, the Houston and Texas Central Railroad, which had only previously gotten as far as Millican, finally reached Bryan.
A short time later, in 1871, the town/city of Bryan became incorporated.
Just south of Bryan, Texas A&M College opened in 1876 in what later would be known as College Station.
The following year, 1877 saw the establishment of the Bryan Independent School District.
Keeping up with progress in the rest of the country, Bryan added electric lighting and a waterworks to its improve in 1889.
The fifth Brazos County courthouse was assembled in 1892, and by the turn of the century, in 1900, the International-Great Northern Railroad stopped in Bryan.
Using a generous grant of $10,000 from Andrew Carnegie, the Carnegie Library of Bryan opened its doors in 1902.
The first Jewish place of worship, the Temple Freda Jewish church, was opened in 1913. During the 1930s the town of North Oakwood consolidated with Bryan.
Now Bryan and College Station are "twin" cities.
In 2006 the Texas A&M University System announced that the new Texas A&M Health Science Center ground would be assembled in Bryan near the new Traditions Golf Course development. in 2009 caused the evacuation of 70,000 inhabitants due to the burning of ammonium nitrate, possibly causing minor respiratory problems. However, the town/city requested that only "anyone who can smell smoke or see smoke to evacuate their homes and businesses" and did not enforce an evacuation except for 500 homes in the close-by vicinity of the fire. Less than 1,000 inhabitants chose to evacuate, taking shelter at Texas A&M University, which closed its ground for the day to ease traffic problems.
City fire officials chose to let the fire burn down before tackling it, since the chemicals were water reactive. The evacuation, which started at 2:30 pm CST ended at 7 pm, except for a small, defined region immediately around the fire, where approximately 100 Bryan inhabitants lived. In the end, only 500 inhabitants were under a mandatory evacuation, and 35 citizens were treated for respiratory enigma from the smoke.
In 2010 the Brazos County District Attorney's Office started the enforcement of a "Gang Safety Zone" in response to an escalation in violence inside Bryan.
Cities like Houston and Los Angeles looked to the Bryan model of safety enforcement encircling gang violence.
The injunction declared a 3.2-mile (5.1 km) region in Bryan as the Gang Safety Zone.
In 2013 the Planned Parenthood clinic in Bryan closed as a result of state budget cuts which impacted family-planning facilities.
Bryan is positioned northwest of the center of Brazos County at 30 39 56 N 96 22 00 W (30.665547, 96.366745). It is bordered to the southeast by the town/city of College Station and to the northwest by the unincorporated improve of Lake Bryan.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 44.5 square miles (115.3 km2), of which 44.4 square miles (115.0 km2) is territory and 0.077 square miles (0.2 km2), or 0.20%, is water. The town/city is centrally located, approximately equidistant from three of the 10 biggest cities in the United States.
Climate data for Bryan, Texas The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) operates the Hamilton Unit, a pre-release facility in Bryan. Hamilton opened as an adult prison facility.
On June 15, 2003, the facility was transferred back to the TDCJ. The TDCJ also operates the Bryan District Parole Office in close-by College Station. The United States Postal Service operates the Bryan and Downtown Bryan postal services. The Federal Bureau of Prisons operates the Federal Prison Camp, Bryan, a women's prison, is positioned in Bryan. Texas A&M University (located in College Station, Texas) (~19,000 employees) Bryan Independent School District (~2,200 employees) City of Bryan (887 employees) The Messina Hof Winery and Resort opened in the late 1970s on Old Reliance Road in easterly Bryan.
The Bonarrigos hope to bring this concept to Bryan and College Station. Soccer: Bryan Regional Athletic Complex (BRAC) Golf: Traditions Golf Course at University Ranch, Miramont, Briarcrest Country Club, Bryan Municipal Golf: Bryan Municipal Golf Course Fishing: Lake Bryan Swimming: Bryan Aquatic Center See also: College Station, Texas Education Blinn College Bryan Campus Texas A&M Health Science Center Bryan Independent School District The Battalion (Texas A&M) Bryan Broadcasting Publications in Bryan) KBTX-TV 3 (CBS) (daily, live newscasts from studio on 29th Street in Bryan) KYLE-TV 28 (FOX) (taped newscast weekday evenings from Tyler, Texas, rarely covering Bryan) The Brazos Transit District began offering bus service in the Bryan-College Station in 1974.
Operating on weekdays on an hourly basis, the seven routes converge at a central locale for transferring between routes. It also offers paratransit services for disabled riders and an on-demand shared ride service. Texas A&M University, headquartered in sister town/city College Station, operates student-driven no-charge buses on weekdays for use by the general enhance that includes coverage around a several apartment complexes in Bryan near ground and along a route that culminates at the Blinn College campus. Bryan is served commercially by Easterwood Airport, a county-wide airport directed by Texas A&M University in College Station. United Express and American Eagle offer flights to and from their larger core airports at George Bush Intercontinental Airport (United) and Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (American). The town/city of Bryan owns and operates Coulter Field and provides fixed-base operator services, hangar space, and runways for private flights. See also: List of highways in Brazos County, Texas Bryan Parkway / Boonville Road Garland Bayliss, American historian and administrator at Texas A&M, resided in both Bryan and College Station Buenger, historian at Texas A&M University Draper, Jr., Texas Southern Baptist clergyman who began his pastorate in Bryan in 1956 Don Mc - Leroy, denitst in Bryan; former member of the Texas State Board of Education known for his conservative educational philosophy "Bill" Moore, state senator from 1949 to 1981, known as "the Bull of the Brazos" and "the father of the undivided Texas A&M University" Steve Ogden, Republican former member of both homes of the state legislature; a Bryan petroleum and gas businessman Raney, member of the Texas House of Representatives from Brazos County since 2011; reared in Bryan, businessman and resident of College Station Lonnie Stabler, mayor of Bryan, 1995 2001; town/city council member, 1991 1995 College Station, Texas, neighboring sister town/city James Bryan (mining executive); the name "Bryan" traces back to him in particular a b "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Bryan city, Texas".
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