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Port Isabel is a city in Cameron County, Texas, United States. [5] It is part of the Brownsville–Harlingen–Raymondville and the Matamoros–Brownsville metropolitan areas. The population was 5,028 at the 2020 census .
Tide tables, sometimes called tide charts, are used for tidal prediction and show the daily times and levels of high and low tides, usually for a particular location. [1] Tide heights at intermediate times (between high and low water) can be approximated by using the rule of twelfths or more accurately calculated by using a published tidal ...
A settlement known as Point Isabel was established at the location in the 1830s, and in 1853, the Point Isabel Lighthouse was constructed to overlook the lagoon. The city was named Port Isabel in 1928, and in 1954, the Queen Isabella Causeway, the longest bridge in Texas, was constructed across Laguna Madre to South Padre Island.
Port Isabel, Texas, USA; a city in Cameron County; Port Isabel, Sonora, Mexico; a former port (1864-1879) at the mouth of the Colorado River; Port Isabel Independent School District, Cameron County, Texas, USA
The bridge sustains the continuation of Texas Park Road 100 and is the only road connecting South Padre Island to mainland Texas. Stretching 2.37 miles (3.81 km) across the Laguna Madre, the causeway is the second-longest bridge in Texas, after the Fred Hartman Bridge over the Houston Ship Channel. [2] It is named after Queen Isabella of Castile.
The Point (Port) Isabel Lighthouse is a historic lighthouse located in Port Isabel, Texas, United States that was built in 1852 to guide ships through the Brazos Santiago Pass to Port Isabel. The lighthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 30, 1976.
In 1876, Captain Polhamus advertised for a company that would cut a channel for 5 miles from the Colorado River to Port Isabel Slough to cut the distance traveled by the steamers to the port. However, the plan came to naught, when the Southern Pacific Railroad bought out the company and bridged the Colorado River at Yuma, Arizona in 1877 ...
Port Isabel, Texas: Port of Port Isabel. "§ 166.200 – Shipping Safety Fairways and Anchorage Areas, Gulf of Mexico" [Title 33, Chapter I, Subchapter P, Part 166]. Code of Federal Regulations. "Brazos Santiago Pass and Brazos Island Military Depot" [South Padre Island in Cameron County, Texas – The American South (West South Central)]. HMDB ...