Texas City, Texas For unincorporated improve in Illinois, see Texas City, Illinois.
City of Texas City Seatrain Louisiana at Refinery Dock, Texas City 1952 Texas City is a town/city in Galveston County in the US state of Texas.
Located on the southwest shoreline of Galveston Bay, Texas City is a busy deepwater port on Texas' Gulf Coast, as well as a oil refining and petrochemical manufacturing center.
The populace was 45,099 at the 2010 census, making it the third-largest town/city in Galveston County, behind League City and Galveston. It is a part of Houston The Woodlands Sugar Land urbane area.
The town/city is notable as the site of a primary explosion in 1947 that completed the port and nearly finished the city.
They retitled the region Texas City.
By 1893, the investors had formed the Texas City Improvement Company (TCIC), which plotted and filed the townsite plan.
TCIC also assembled a 4-mi barns to the Texas City Junction south of town, where it connected to two other rail lines: Galveston, Houston and San Antonio and Galveston-Houston & Henderson. Even with these successes, the TCIC went bankrupt in 1897.
Its assets were reorganized into two new companies: Texas City Company (TCC), and Texas City Railway Terminal Company (TCRTC).
However, the Texas City port remained open after the storm passed.
Texas City Refining Company was chartered in 1908 to build a refinery adjoining to the port facility.
This facility was later acquired and period by Texas oilman Sid Richardson. Three more refineries soon followed, making Texas City a primary port for deepwater shipping of Texas oil products to the Atlantic Coast. The 2nd Division of the United States Army deployed to Texas City in 1913 to guard the Gulf Coast from incursions amid the Mexican Revolution, essentially encamping nearly half of the nation's territory military personnel there, due to the perceived double threat that the Mexican Revolution might spill over athwart the border or that the neighboring nation might turn into a German ally in the incipient World War.
The military deployment also encompassed the 1st Aero Division, and the Wright brothers trained over a dozen soldiers as military pilots, essentially turning Texas City into the place of birth of what became the United States Air Force, as the town/city claims at its monument of the place of birth of the air force at Bay Street City Park. Speed and distance records were set by pilots trained and planes flying out of Texas City's impromptu military air base.
In 1921, the Texas City Railway Terminal Company took over operations of the port facilities.
By 1925, Texas City had an estimated populace of 3,500 and was a grow community with two refineries producing gasoline, the Texas City Sugar Refinery, two cotton compressing facilities, and even passenger bus service. Moore was able to win this refinery from the Houston Ship Channel because of Texas City's locale nearer the Gulf of Mexico.
By the end of the 1930s, Texas City's populace had grown to 5,200. Seatrain Lines constructed a terminal at the Texas City port amid 1939 40.
This was a specialized business that owned ships designed to carry barns cars from Texas City to New York City on a weekly schedule.
By 1940, Texas City was the fourth-ranked Texas port, exceeded only by Houston, Beaumont and Port Arthur. Texas City is home to the Texas City Dike, a man-made breakwater assembled of tumbled granite blocks in the 1930s, that was originally designed to protect the lower Houston Ship Channel from silting.
Texas City refineries and chemical plants worked around the clock at full capacity to supply the war accomplishment.
Jones, head of the Defense Plant Corporation, decided to build such a smelter in Texas City.
Main article: Texas City Disaster The entire Texas City and Port Terminal Fire departments were wiped out. The Texas City disaster is widely regarded as the foundation of disaster planning for the United States.
Numerous petrochemical refineries are still positioned in the same port region of Texas City.
Main article: Texas City Refinery explosion On March 23, 2005, the town/city suffered another explosion in a small-town BP (formerly Amoco) petroleum refinery which killed 15 and injured over 100. The BP facility in Texas City is the United States' third biggest petroleum refinery, employing over 2,000 citizens , refining 460,000 barrels (73,000 m ) of crude petroleum each day, and producing roughly 4% of the country's gasoline.
Even in the widespread destruction throughout Galveston County caused by the wind and surge associated with Ike, Texas City was largely spared the devastation that other low-lying areas suffered.
Together with pump stations including a several Archimedes' screws positioned at various places throughout the northeast periphery of the town/city adjoining Galveston, Dollar Bay, and Moses Lake, the levee and pump station fitness may well have saved the town/city from wholesale devastation at the hands of Ike's powerful tidal surge.
Beginning Sunday, September 14, 2008, the day after landfall, Texas City's high school football complex, "Stingaree Stadium", was used as a staging and relocation region for persons evacuated by National Guard Black Hawk helicopters from close-by bayfront communities such as the Bolivar Peninsula and Galveston Island.
The Texas City Dike was overtopped by a greater-than 12-foot (3.7 m) storm surge when Hurricane Ike barreled through the region in the early-morning hours of Saturday, September 13, 2008.
Map of Texas City Texas City is positioned at 29 24 00 N 94 56 02 W (29.399983, 94.933851). This is 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Galveston and 37 miles (60 km) southeast of Houston.
Officially, the altitude of Texas City is 10 feet above sea level, though some areas are even lower.
Texas City is bounded on the north by Moses Lake, which is fed by Moses Bayou, a contaminating stream.
The Texas City economy has long been based on heavy industry, especially shipping at the Port of Texas City as well as oil and petrochemical refining. The Texas City Industrial Complex is a dominant center of the petrochemical industry.
Within this complex the Galveston Bay Refinery directed by Marathon is the second biggest oil refinery in Texas and third biggest in the United States. The Port of Texas City became the third dominant port in Texas by tonnage and ninth in the nation. In recent decades the city's creators have made accomplishments to diversify the economy into tourism, community care, and many other sectors. As early as 1974, Texas City was placed on the top ten list for the EPA superfund.
As of 2010 SSA Marine Company had plans to build a primary new cargo container shipping terminal known as the Texas City International Terminal at Shoal Point. The universal is intended to capitalize on the expansion of the Panama Canal, scheduled for culmination in 2014, which town/city officials expect to substantially increase trade between the Gulf Coast and Asia. The Port of Texas City, directed by the Port of Texas City / Texas City Terminal Railway, is the eighth biggest port in the United States and the third biggest in Texas with waterborne tonnage exceeding 78 million net tons.
The Texas City Terminal Railway Company provides an meaningful land link to the port, handling over 25,000 car loads per year.
The Port of Texas City's success as a privately owned port has been aided by its shareholders, the Union Pacific and Burlington Northern Santa Fe barns s, whose connections allow for expeditious interchange of their traffic.
Texas City Post Office In 2008 the town/city government replaced civilian code enforcement officers with police officers after finding that inhabitants tended to ignore civilian officials, who must go through a lengthy process to force compliance, said George Fuller, town/city director of improve development. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice maintains the Young Medical Facility Complex for females in Texas City. Young opened in 1996 as the Texas City Regional Medical Unit. The Texas City Post Office is positioned at 2002 11th Avenue North, in the Tradewinds Shopping Center. Most of Texas City is inside the Texas City Independent School District.
Texas City High School serves the TCISD portion of Texas City.
On December 2, 2015, Texas Education Agency (TEA) Commissioner Michael Williams announced that the Texas City Independent School District would absorb LMISD effective July 1, 2016. Our Lady of Fatima School, a Roman Catholic elementary school directed by the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, is in Texas City .
All of Texas City is served by the College of the Mainland, which is positioned in Texas City. The Moore Memorial Public Library is positioned at 1701 9th Avenue North. In 1928 the City of Texas City dedicated a room in town/city hall to form a municipal library.
The Texas City Civic Club directed the library in the room.
The Texas City Museum is at 409 6th Street North, in a two story building formerly occupied by J.
The town/city operates various parks, some of which region part of the Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail. The Texas City Prairie Preserve is a 2,300-acre (9.3 km2) nature preserve positioned on the shores of Moses Lake opposite the city.
The centerpiece of Texas City's Heritage Square historical precinct is the former residence of one of the city's fathers, Frank B.
N, just two-thirds of a mile west of the Texas City Dike's location.
The Davison Home, maintained by the Texas City Historical Association, is a Victorian-styled home rather than in 1897, and the site where the first child was born in the new improve of Texas City.
The primary freeway serving the region is the Gulf Freeway, part of Interstate 45, which joins Texas City with Galveston and Houston, as well as other metros/cities nationwide.
Texas State Highway 146 locally joins Texas City with other Bay Area communities on the shoreline.
Texas Loop 197 combines with Highway 146 to form a ring around the town/city providing access to the city's primary areas. Greyhound Bus Lines provides passenger bus service to destinations nationwide at the Texas City La Marque Station in neighboring La Marque. Amtrak provides a connecting motorcoach service from close-by Galveston. "Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Texas City city, Texas".
Priscilla Myers Benham, "TEXAS CITY, TX," Handbook of Texas Online.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Texas City city, Texas".
City of Texas City.
"Texas City International Terminal" (PDF).
City of Texas City.
"POLICING THE NEIGHBORHOOD / ARRESTING BLIGHT ON PATROL / Texas City is using a team of officers to put teeth in town/city code enforcement." "Texas City ISD will annex La Marque ISD into its school precinct beginning in the 2016-17 school year." Texas City Museum.
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"Gulf Coast Bird Observatory: Texas City Prairie Preserve" (PDF).
City of Texas City.
"La Marque Texas City, Texas".
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City of Texas City official website Historic Photos from the Moore Memorial Public Library, Texas City, hosted by the Portal to Texas History Texas City from the Handbook of Texas Online "Annals of Texas City Port of Opportunity." Texas City, Texas
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