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The dike is parallel to and north of the 50-foot deep, 600-foot wide Texas City Channel, which allows shipping traffic to access the Port of Texas City. The dike's structure consists of a 28,200-foot-long (approximately 5.34 miles) pile dike paired with a rubble-mound dike that runs along the south edge of the pile dike (U.S. Army Corps of ...
Texas City is home to the Texas City Dike, a man-made breakwater built of tumbled granite blocks in the 1930s, that was originally designed to protect the lower Houston Ship Channel from silting. The dike, famous among locals as being "the world's longest man-made fishing pier ", extends roughly 5.2 mi (8 km) to the southeast into the mouth of ...
Pages in category "Texas City, Texas" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. ... Texas City Dike; Texas City disaster; Texas City Independent ...
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Route 2 (including alternatives 2-1, 2-2, and 2-3), using the Texas City Dike as a corridor The preferred corridor is Route 1-3, the Pelican Island alternative. One estimate for the cost of the bridge was $240 million.
Dike is an unincorporated community in Hopkins County, Texas, United States. [1] Dike has a post office, with the ZIP code 75437. [2] On May 6, 2023, Dike voted on whether to incorporate into the city of Dike; the measure failed, with 32 votes in favor against 108 opposed.
The 1947 Texas City disaster was an industrial accident that occurred on April 16, 1947, in the port of Texas City, Texas, United States, located in Galveston Bay. It was the deadliest industrial accident in U.S. history and one of history's largest non-nuclear explosions .
Texas population density map. As of May 2024, the 1,225 Texas municipalities [3] [a] include 971 cities, 231 towns, and 23 villages.These designations are determined by United States Census Bureau requirements based on state statutes and may not match a municipality's self-reported designation. [4]