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Bay City is a city and the county seat of Matagorda County, Texas, United States. The population was 17,614 at the 2010 census [5] and 18,061 at the 2020 census . [8]
The South Texas Project Electric Generating Station (also known as STP, STPEGS, South Texas Project ), is a nuclear power station southwest of Bay City, Texas, United States. STP occupies a 12,200-acre (4,900 ha) site west of the Colorado River about 90 miles (140 km) southwest of Houston. It consists of two Westinghouse Pressurized Water ...
October 10, 1996 (Rainbow Bridge) The Rainbow Bridge and Veterans Memorial Bridge are a pair of bridges that cross the Neches River in Southeast Texas just upstream from Sabine Lake. It allows State Highway 87 and State Highway 73 to connect Port Arthur in Jefferson County on the southwest bank of the river. Bridge City in Orange County is on ...
Colorado River (Texas) / 32.67972°N 101.73083°W / 32.67972; -101.73083. / 28.59472°N 95.98306°W / 28.59472; -95.98306. The Colorado River is an approximately 862-mile-long (1,387 km) river [5] in the U.S. state of Texas. It is the 11th longest river in the United States [5] and the longest river with both its source and its ...
1380966 [2] Website. www .baytown .org. Baytown is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, within Harris and Chambers counties. Located in the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan statistical area, it lies on the northern side of the Galveston Bay complex near the outlets of the San Jacinto River and Buffalo Bayou.
The Tribune is the second-oldest newspaper in Texas. Established on August 23, 1845, as a weekly, the newspaper moved from Matagorda to Bay City when the location of the county seat was changed in 1894. It was published as both a daily and weekly from 1904 to 1959, when the weekly ceased publication. The newspaper converted to twice-weekly ...
While only about 20% of Texas counties are generally located within the Houston—Dallas—San Antonio—Austin areas, they serve a majority of the state's population with approximately 22,000,000 inhabitants. Texas was originally divided into municipalities (municipios in Spanish), a unit of local government under Spanish and Mexican rule.
3–7 km (2–4 mi) Surface area. 219 km 2 (100 sq mi) Average depth. 2.3 m (8 ft) References. [1] Baffin Bay is a bay in South Texas, an inlet of the larger Laguna Madre. Located near the Gulf of Mexico, Baffin Bay forms part of the boundary between Kenedy County and Kleberg County.