Palacios, Texas Palacios, Texas Downtown Palacios Downtown Palacios Location of Palacios, Texas Location of Palacios, Texas Palacios (Listeni/p l s/ p -lash- s) is a town/city in Matagorda County, Texas, United States.
Popular small-town legend states that the region was titled Tres Palacios ("Three Palaces") a several centuries ago by shipwrecked Spanish sailors who claimed they saw a vision of three palaces on the bay.
The future site of Palacios was ranch territory until 1901, when it was put up for sale by the estate of the former owner, Abel "Shanghai" Pierce.
It was first settled as a improve in 1903. City government was established in 1909, and by 1915, Palacios was home to more than 100 businesses, with a postal service, library, weekly newspaper, various hotels, and churches, as well as a large entertainment pavilion assembled on a pier in the bay. The camp was leased by the War Department amid World War II, when it was advanced into a primary antiaircraft training facility with a peak troop capacity of 14,560, and also served as a detention center for German prisoners of war. The populace of Palacios boomed amid this period, and the town/city hosted visiting stars such as Rita Hayworth and Glenn Miller. Tres Palacios Bay Palacios is positioned on the Gulf Coast about halfway between Houston and Corpus Christi.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 5.3 square miles (14 km2), of which, 5.0 square miles (13 km2) of it is territory and 0.2 square miles (0.52 km2) of it (4.36%) is veiled by water.
It is positioned on the shores of Tres Palacios Bay, an arm of Matagorda Bay.
The Palacios region is known among birders for its wide range of bird life.
Palacios experiences a humid subtropical climate.
Climate data for Palacios, Texas Source: Southern Regional Climate Center "Climate Normals for Palacios Municipal Airport" Pier on Palacios waterfront One of many small churches in Palacios Palacios has an unusually high percentage of Asian-Americans, as it is home to a large improve of Vietnamese immigrants and their families.
In the city, the populace was distributed as 35.4% under the age of 18, 9.1% from 18 to 24, 25.8% from 25 to 44, 18.6% from 45 to 64, and 11.1% who were 65 years of age or older.
Shrimping boats in the harbor at Palacios A wedding at Palacios pavilion before a hurricane damaged the roof Home to about 400 vessels, Palacios is the third-largest shrimping port on the Texas Gulf Coast, and has proclaimed itself to be the "Shrimp Capital of Texas". The most common industries are educational services, agriculture/fishing, and construction. The region has also long been a primary center for energy production, and the county is positioning itself as an "energy cluster" for both conventional and alternative "green" power generation, with over $3 billion in new assembly undergoing permitting as of 2011. The small-town tourism trade is based on fishing, boating, birding and eco-tourism opportunities. The City of Palacios has a council-manager government.
Palacios and neighboring areas are served by the Palacios Independent School District, with a vision statement of "Each child prepared with skills for a prosperous future".
The school precinct includes Central Elementary, East Side Elementary, Palacios Junior High School, and Palacios High School (the junior high school and high school reside on the same ground grounds).
The town/city is accessed by Texas State Highway 35 and served by the Palacios Municipal Airport.
The Palacios Channel joins the Port of Palacios to the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. Greyhound Lines offers direct bus service from Palacios to Houston, Corpus Christi, and the Rio Grande Valley. Palacios is home to the Palacios Beacon, a weekly journal established in 1907.
Palacios Municipal Airport https://rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txmatago/hmn_pa_pavilions.htm Palacios Pavilions Griffin, "PALACIOS, TX," Handbook of Texas Online (https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hfp01), accessed May 03, 2011.
https://visitbaycity.org/history/index.html Historic Matagorda County https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/bmk05 Handbook of Texas Online "Karankawa Indians" https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hfp01 Handbook of Texas Online https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qbc17 Handbook of Texas Online, "Camp Hulen" https://citybytheseamuseum.org/hulen.html Palacios Area Historical Association https://palacioschamber.com/touristinfo.html Palacios Chamber of Commerce "Our Heritage" https://nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/texas/press/press - 2757.html Nature Conservancy in Texas "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
https://palacioschamber.com/tourist.htm Palacios Chamber of Commerce https://cityofpalacios.org City of Palacios https://portofpalacios.com Port of Palacios See Speech by Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison via Archive.org (2005-05-18).
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