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The lake feeds Galveston Bay. It is bordered by Houston (Clear Lake City), Pasadena, League City, Clear Lake Shores, Taylor Lake Village, Seabrook and El Lago, Texas. NASA's Johnson Space Center lies near its shores. The lake is a major recreation center and home to one of the largest concentrations of recreational boats and marinas in the nation.
Clear Lake, or the Clear Lake Area, is a region in parts of Harris and Galveston County in Texas, United States. It is part of the Galveston Bay Area , which itself is a section of the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area.
Seabrook is located on Galveston Bay at Clear Lake, southeast of Houston near Pasadena and La Porte. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 21.3 square miles (55.1 km 2 ), of which 5.3 square miles (13.8 km 2 ) is land and 15.9 square miles (41.3 km 2 ), or 74.97%, is water.
Houston Methodist Clear Lake Hospital, located in Nassau Bay, Texas, across from Johnson Space Center, is one of seven community hospitals that are part of Houston Methodist. It employs about 900 people, has an estimated 700 affiliated doctors and admits more than 5,700 patients annually. The hospital serves the Greater Bay area. [1] [2]
The Clear Lake Golf Course opened in 1963 and closed in 2005. [38] It took up about 180 acres (73 ha) of land. The Clear Lake City Water Authority (CLCWA) took possession of the property. [39] The CLCWA proposed a storm detention area and a dog park for the former property. [40]
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NASA Johnson Space Center with Clear Lake visible at the top of the image. The establishment of NASA's Johnson Space Center near the bay in the Clear Lake Area in 1963 brought new growth. By the 1970s Houston had become one of the nation's largest cities, and its expansion connected it with the bay communities.
Texas A&M University at Galveston began in 1962 as a marine laboratory and as the home of the Texas Maritime Academy of Texas A&M University (which is now known as Texas A&M Maritime Academy). [3] [4] [5] The federal government donated the first training ship, the Texas Clipper, to the Maritime Academy in 1965.