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FIPS code. 48-17744 [2] GNIS feature ID. 1355365 [3] Website. www.crocketttexas.org. Crockett is a city and the county seat of Houston County, Texas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 6,332. [4] Houston County is the oldest county and Crockett the fifth-oldest city in Texas.
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. Mission Tejas State Park is a 660-acre (270 ha) state park located along Texas State Highway 21 in Houston County, Texas, originally constructed in 1935 and transferred to Texas Parks and Wildlife in 1957. The closest major town is Crockett, Texas. The park is open year-round.
Website. Official website. NRHP reference No. 10000248 [1] Added to NRHP. May 10, 2010. Houston County Courthouse is a historic county courthouse in Crockett, Texas, United States. Built in 1939, it is Houston County's fifth courthouse. It was designed in the Moderne architectural style by Houston architect Blum E. Hester.
A Houston County naturalist is trying to stop a solar farm from being built on a 4,700-acre site directly adjoining the Oaky Woods Wildlife Management Area — a patch of land he was instrumental ...
The Yates Oil Field is a giant oil field in the Permian Basin of west Texas. Primarily in extreme southeastern Pecos County, it also stretches under the Pecos River and partially into Crockett County. Iraan, on the Pecos River and directly adjacent to the field, is the nearest town. The field has produced more than one billion barrels of oil ...
Houston County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.As of the 2020 census, its population was 22,066. [1] Its county seat is Crockett. [2] Houston County was one of 46 entirely dry counties in the state of Texas, until voters in a November 2007 special election legalized the sale of alcohol in the county.
Fort Crockett is a government reservation on Galveston Island overlooking the Gulf of Mexico originally built as a defense installation to protect the city and harbor of Galveston and to secure the entrance to Galveston Bay, thus protecting the commercial and industrial ports of Galveston and Houston and the extensive oil refineries in the bay area.
Big Slough Wilderness. / 31.4937905; -95.1174384. The Big Slough Wilderness is a 3,455-acre (1,398 ha) protected area in Davy Crockett National Forest in Houston County, Texas, United States. The area was added to the National Wilderness Preservation System in 1984 with the passage of the Texas Wilderness Act.