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Anahuac (/ ˈ æ n ə w æ k / AN-ə-wak) [4] is a city in the U.S. state of Texas on the coast of Trinity Bay. The population of the city was 1,980 at the 2020 census. [5] Anahuac is the seat of Chambers County [6] and is situated in Southeast Texas. The Texas Legislature designated the city as the "Alligator Capital of Texas" in 1989.
Chambers County was founded in 1858. It is named for Thomas Jefferson Chambers, [6] a major general in the Texas Revolution. In 2019, Atlas Air Flight 3591, a cargo flight operating for Amazon Air, crashed in the Trinity Bay, in Chambers County and near Anahuac, while flying from Miami to Houston. All three people on board were killed.
Lake Anahuac is an artificial lake fed by the // not true, Lake Anahuac is fed naturally by Turtle Bayou and Hog Bayou via a pump station. Trinity River, 45 miles (72 km) east of downtown Houston, Texas, United States in western Chambers County. The city of Anahuac lies on its eastern // southern shores. It was constructed by the Burkhalter ...
Anahuac, Greater Houston Trinity Bay is the northeast portion of Galveston Bay , bordered by Chambers and Harris counties in Texas , United States. [ 1 ] The bay, approximately 20 miles (32 km) long, heads at the mouth of the Trinity River .
The Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) is a wildlife conservation area along the coast of Texas (USA), west of the town of High Island, Texas. It borders East Bay, part of the Galveston Bay complex, behind Bolivar Peninsula at the Gulf of Mexico. Established in 1963, this wildlife refuge is located on the upper Texas Coast in Chambers ...
Oak Island CDP, Texas – Racial and ethnic composition Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race. Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic) Pop 2010 [17] Pop 2020 [16] % 2010 % 2020 White alone ...
The southern terminus of SH 61 is in Anahuac, along Washington Avenue; state maintenance begins just south of Stowell Street. [2] The route travels north into Anahuac before turning to the east. It passes the Chambers County Airport before an intersection with SH 65; SH 61 turns to the north, while SH 65 continues east.
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.