Dickinson, Texas City of Dickinson Dickinson City Hall Dickinson City Hall Dickinson is a town/city in Galveston County, Texas, inside Houston The Woodlands Sugar Land urbane area.
Dickinson is positioned on a tract of territory granted to John Dickinson in 1824, and titled after him.
The Galveston, Houston, and Henderson Railroad was assembled directly through Dickinson.
By 1911, the Galveston Houston Electric Railway had three stops in Dickinson, and the Oleander Country Club was a prominent destination for prominent Galvestonians.
In 1905, Italian ambassador Baron Mayor des Planches convinced about 150 Italians from crowded easterly metros/cities to move to Dickinson.
Dickinson continued to expanded due to its adjacency to Texas City, with its shipyards and state of war industries, and later its adjacency to the Johnson Space Center. Recently, the City of Dickinson constructed a new multimillion-dollar town/city hall and library complex which was dedicated June 30, 2009.
Dickinson is positioned at 29 27 38 N 95 03 14 W (29.460467, -95.053856). This is about 28 miles (45 km) southeast of Houston and 19 miles (31 km) northwest of Galveston.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 10.3 square miles (26.6 km2), of which 9.9 square miles (25.6 km2) is territory and 0.42 square miles (1.1 km2), or 3.95%, is water. In the city, the populace was spread out with 28.5% under the age of 18, 9.6% from 18 to 24, 30.5% from 25 to 44, 21.8% from 45 to 64, and 9.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
The Dickinson City Hall is positioned at 4403 Highway 3 and the Dickinson Public Library is positioned at 4411 Highway 3.
Dickinson High School Most of Dickinson is a part of the Dickinson Independent School District.
The following schools serve the Dickinson ISD portion: Calder Road Elementary School (Pre - Kindergarten- 4th Grade) Bay Colony Elementary School (Pre - Kindergarten- 4th Grade) Hughes Road Elementary School (Pre - Kindergarten - 4th Grade) Jake Sibernagel Elementary School (Pre - Kindergarten - 4th Grade) Little Elementary School (Pre - Kindergarten - 4th Grade) [serves Bacliff portion of DISD] San Leon Elementary School (Pre - Kindergarten - 4th Grade) [serves San Leon portion of DISD] Lobit Elementary School (Pre - Kindergarten - 4th Grade) John and Shamarion Barber Middle School (5th-6th Grade) Dunbar Middle School (5th-6th Grade) Lobit Middle School (5th-6th Grade) Mc - Adams Junior High School (7th-8th Grade) Dickinson High School (9th-12th Grade) Before the 2004 2005 school year, all DISD elementary schools provided education for Pre-K through 5th grades.
But Barber Elementary School was turned into a Middle School center for 5th undertaking from 2004-2005 school year to 2007-2008 school year.
Bay Area Charter Middle School is a state charter school in Dickinson.
True Cross School, a Roman Catholic pre-K - 8 school directed by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, is in Dickinson. True Cross School was the first Roman Catholic school on the Galveston County mainland.
Dickinson is served by the College of the Mainland, a improve college in Texas City.
Dickinson Public Library, directed by the city, is positioned at 4411 Highway 3. The Galveston County Department of Parks and Senior Services operates the Dickinson Community Center at 2714 Highway 3. Dickinson Bayou is a bayou that flows in and out of the town/city of Dickinson.
"Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Dickinson city, Texas".
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Dickinson city, Texas".
Texas Almanac: City Population History 1850-2000 True Cross Catholic School "Dickinson Public Library " Dickinson Public Library.
"Dickinson High School 2013 Homecoming Festivities".
Gator Bytes Dickinson Independent School District E-Newsletter.
City of Dickinson official website Dickinson, Texas from the Handbook of Texas Online
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