Port Arthur, Texas
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Location of Port Arthur, Texas - U.S.
Aerial view of Port Arthur Port Arthur is a town/city in Jefferson County inside the Beaumont Port Arthur Metropolitan Travel Destination of the U.S.
However, in 1895 Arthur Stilwell established Port Arthur, and the town quickly grew.
Port Arthur was incorporated as a town/city in 1898 and soon advanced into a seaport.
It eventually became the center of a large petroleum refinery network. The Rainbow Bridge athwart the Neches River joins Port Arthur to Bridge City.
9 Tropical cyclones that have affected Port Arthur Through its tidal supply 5 miles (8 km) long, Sabine Pass, Sabine Lake drains some 50,000 square miles (100,000 km2) of Texas and Louisiana into the Gulf of Mexico.
The Eastern Texas Railroad, instead of between Sabine Pass and Beaumont, Texas, passed four miles west of Sparks.
Arthur Stilwell led the resettling of the region as part of his prepared city of Port Arthur.
The 18.5-mile (29.8 km) man-made island was created between 1899 and 1908 by the Corps of Engineers to support evolution of the port.
Arthur Stilwell established the Port Arthur Channel and Dock Company to manage the port facilities.
The port officially opened with the arrival of the British steamer Saint Oswald in 1899.
When petroleum was identified in the region, Port Arthur advanced for a time as the center of the biggest petroleum refinery network in the world. Port Arthur is positioned at 29 53 6 N 93 56 24 W (29.884864, 93.939902) east of Houston. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 143.8 square miles (372.4 km2), of which, 82.9 square miles (214.7 km2) of it is territory and 60.8 square miles (157.5 km2) of it (42.32%) is water.
Communities in Port Arthur include: Port Acres Port Arthur is tied with Lake Charles, Louisiana and Astoria, Oregon, as the most humid town/city in the adjoining United States.
Climate data for Port Arthur, Texas (Jack Brooks Airport) 1981 2010 Big Arthur crane After decades of stagnation and neglect in the region economy because of a diminish in the petroleum industry, Port Arthur is reviving in the 21st century. Several large projects involving the energy transit framework are underway or proposed, the two biggest being the Golden Pass and Sabine Pass LNG terminals.
Home to a large portion of United States refining capacity, Port Arthur is now seeing renewed investment in a several key installations.
Motiva Enterprises is comprehensive a primary addition to its Port Arthur refinery, expanding capacity to 600,000 barrels per day (95,000 m3/d). This $10.0 billion universal is the biggest US refinery expansion to occur in 30 years. Premcor Refining (now Valero) recently[when?] instead of a $775 million expansion of its petrochemical plant, and BASF/Fina commenced operations of a new $1.75 billion gasification and cogeneration unit on premises of its current installation, which had just instead of its own $1 billion upgrade.
These operations are supported by the Port of Port Arthur, one of Texas' dominant seaports.
But, Port Arthur stillendures from one of the highest unemployment rates in the state.
The commercial center of Port Arthur was at its peak in the early 1900s.
At 118 feet, ten stories, and the tallest building in Port Arthur, the building is of Beaux-Arts architecture style, assembled with steel-reinforced concrete and brick on 640 steel-laced wooden cypress pilings driven 60-foot into the ground.
The Port Arthur News reported August 28, 2010, that "DWA (Digital Workforce Academy) Buys Sabine Hotel", But by November 2011, there were reports that the hotel was slated for demolition.
Port Arthur's Museum of the Gulf Coast is recognized as the area's definitive compilation of items and displays for figures from Port Arthur and the encircling communities.
The Mayor of Port Arthur is Derrick Ford Freeman The county operates the Port Arthur Sub-Courthouse in Port Arthur. The United States Postal Service operates the Port Arthur Post Office, the Port Acres Post Office, and the Sabine Pass Post Office in Sabine Pass. Most of the City of Port Arthur is served by the Port Arthur Independent School District.
Some parts are served by Port Neches-Groves Independent School District.
The Sabine Pass improve is served by the Sabine Pass Independent School District.
The Bob Hope Charter School is positioned in Port Arthur. Lamar State College Port Arthur, positioned in downtown Port Arthur; jubilated its 100th birthday in 2009.
The section of Port Arthur inside the Sabine Pass School District is assigned to Galveston College in Galveston. The Port Arthur Public Library, at 4615 9th Avenue at Texas State Highway 73, serves as the enhance library fitness for the city. The Jack Brooks Regional Airport in Port Arthur serves Beaumont and Port Arthur.
Local bus service is provided by Port Arthur Transit.
Tropical cyclones that have affected Port Arthur In August 1965's Hurricane Betsy, Port Arthur sustained very little damage.
Port Arthur was the only region in Texas to be damaged.
In September 2005's Hurricane Rita, Port Arthur sustained primary wind damage and some flooding.
The path of the eye continued northeastward and passed over Port Arthur, Nederland, Port Neches, Groves, and Bridge City, Texas at Category 1 hurricane strength.
This was the second time inside two years (following Hurricane Rita on September 24, 2005) that these metros/cities experienced a direct hit from a hurricane.
On the morning of August 5, 2008, Port Arthur saw the effects of Tropical Storm Edouard.
In September 2008, Port Arthur again sustained primary wind damage, with a several areas having primary flooding.
Ike made its final landfall near Galveston, Texas as a strong Category 2 hurricane, with Category 4 equivalent storm surge, on Sept.
Due to its immense size, Ike caused devastation from the Louisiana coastline all the way to the Kennedy County, Texas region near Corpus Christi, Texas.
The seawall of Port Arthur protected the town/city from the storm surge that devastated encircling communities such as Bridge City.
Lee Hazlewood, musician; raised in Port Arthur Jim Hurtubise, race car driver; moved to Port Arthur as an adult Port Arthur incorporates- Retrieved 2013-09-10 The History of Port Arthur.
"WMO Climate Normals for Port Arthur, TX 1961 1990".
"Monthly Averages for Southeast Texas Regional Airport, TX".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
The Economy of Southeast Texas Home Page "Retirement and Looking Back to "the Way it Was" (economic tailspin)- Retrieved 2013-09-10 Sabine Hotel- Retrieved 2013-09-10 The Port Arthur News; Hotel Sabine foundation "DWA buys Sabine Hotel", Port Arthur News, 28 August 2010, Retrieved 2013-09-10 "Port Arthur hotel could meet its doom", My Fox Houston, 11 November 2011, Retrieved 2013-09-10 "The Beaumont Enterprise - Those who recall bustling downtown Port Arthur are still around; old way of life isn't." "Port Arthur", Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities, Retrieved 2013-09-10 "Jefferson County, Texas Phone Director." "Post Office Location - PORT ARTHUR." "Post Office Location - PORT ACRES." "Post Office Location - SABINE PASS." The Port Arthur News.
Texas Education Code, Section 130.179, "Galveston College District Service Area".
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