Goliad, Texas Goliad, Texas Location of Goliad, Texas Location of Goliad, Texas State Texas Goliad (/ o li d/ goh-lee-ad) is a town/city in Goliad County, Texas, United States.
It had a populace of 1,908 at the 2010 census. Founded on the San Antonio River, it is the governmental center of county of Goliad County. It is part of the Victoria, Texas, Metropolitan Statistical Area.
In 1747, the Spanish government sent Jose de Escandon to inspect the northern frontier of its North American colonies, including Spanish Texas.
In his final report, Escandon recommended the Presidio La Bahia be moved from its Guadalupe River locale to the banks of the San Antonio River, so it could better assist settlements along the Rio Grande. Both the presidio and the mission which it protected, Mission Nuestra Senora del Espiritu Santo de Zuniga, moved to their new locale sometime around October 1749.
With the conclusion of the Seven Years' War in 1763, France ceded Louisiana and its Texas claims to Spain. With France no longer a threat to the Crown's North American interests, the Spanish monarchy commissioned the Marquis de Rubi to inspect all of the presidios on the northern frontier of New Spain and make recommendations for the future. Rubi recommended that a several presidios be closed, but that La Bahia be kept and rebuilt in stone.
It quickly became one of the three most meaningful areas in Texas, alongside Bexar and Nacogdoches. A civil settlement, then known as La Bahia, soon advanced near the presidio.
In early August 1812, amid the Mexican War of Independence, Mexican revolutionary Bernardo Gutierrez de Lara and his recruits, called the Republican Army of the North, invaded Texas. In November the invaders captured Presidio La Bahia.
The United States and Spain had signed the Adams Onis Treaty in 1819, which ceded all US territorial claims on the Texas region to Spain.
In 1829, the name of the Mexican Texas village of La Bahia was changed to "Goliad", believed to be an anagram of Hidalgo (omitting the silent initial "H"), with respect to the patriot priest Miguel Hidalgo, the father of the Mexican War of Independence. On October 9, 1835, in the early days of the Texas Revolution, a group of Texans attacked the presidio in the Battle of Goliad.
The Texas gunfighter King Fisher lived for a time in Goliad before moving to Eagle Pass in Maverick County, Texas.
Main article: 1902 Goliad, Texas, tornado It is tied for the deadliest tornado in Texas history and the 10th-deadliest in the United States. Dr.
The San Antonio River flows through Goliad.
Goliad is positioned near the center of Goliad County at 28 40 N 97 24 W (28.669, -97.392). U.S.
Goliad is 91 miles (146 km) southeast of San Antonio and 68 miles (109 km) north of Corpus Christi.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 1.6 square miles (4.1 km2), of which 0.004 square miles (0.01 km2), or 0.28%, are water. The San Antonio River flows from west to east along the southern border of the city; it is a tributary of the Guadalupe River, joining it just before their mouth at San Antonio Bay.
The Goliad Independent School District serves Goliad.
The Texas Mile, a weekend motorsports racing festival, used to be held at the Goliad Airport near Berclair, TX.
"City of Goliad Texas".
City of Goliad Texas.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Goliad city, Texas".
Roell (1994), p.
Roell (1994), p.
Roell (1994), p.
Roell (1994), p.
Roell (1994), p.
Roell (1994), p.
Roell (1994), p.
Jeri Robison Turner, "GOLIAD, TX," Handbook of Texas Online (https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hjg05), (Texas State Historical Association), accessed 16 April 2011.
"ZARAGOZA, IGNACIO SEGUIN," Handbook of Texas Online (https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fza04) (Texas State Historical Association), accessed 15 April 2011.
Texas State Historical Commission, Goliad Tornado of 1902 Historical Marker Climate Summary for Goliad, Texas (1971), Tragic Cavalier: Governor Manuel Salcedo of Texas, 1808 1813 (2nd ed.), College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, ISBN 0-89096-503-X (1992), Spanish Texas, 1519 1821, Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, ISBN 0-292-77659-4 (1994), Texian Iliad A Military History of the Texas Revolution, Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, ISBN 0-292-73086-1, OCLC 2970 - 4011 A History of La Bahia, Fred Rider Cotten Popular History Series (9), Austin, TX: Texas State Historical Association, ISBN 0-87611-141-X Wikimedia Commons has media related to Goliad, Texas.
The Texas Mile Municipalities and communities of Goliad County, Texas, United States State of Texas County seats of Texas
Categories:
Cities in Texas - Cities in Goliad County, Texas - County seats in Texas - Victoria urbane region - Populated places established in 1749 - 1749 establishments in the Spanish Empire
|