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Bayou Vista is a city in Galveston County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,763 at the 2020 census . [ 4 ] It received severe damage from Hurricane Ike on September 13, 2008.
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At the time the 3.6-square-mile (9.3 km 2) area considering incorporation had 7,000 people. [6] [7] Galveston County Judge Ray Holbrook signed an order setting the date of the election as Saturday August 9, 1986, and releasing the area from the extraterritorial jurisdiction of Kemah, League City, and Texas City. In 1986 the Bacliff and Bayview ...
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According to the United States Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 874 square miles (2,260 km 2), of which 495 square miles (1,280 km 2) (57%) is covered by water. [9] Galveston County is located on the plains of the Texas Gulf Coast in the southeastern part of the state.
Galveston Bay (/ ˈ ɡ æ l v ɪ s t ən / GAL-vis-tən) is a bay in the western Gulf of Mexico along the upper coast of Texas.It is the seventh-largest estuary in the United States, [2] and the largest of seven major estuaries along the Texas Gulf Coast.
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.
The area's proximity to the bay and the winds that it generates moderate the area's temperatures and ease the effects of the humidity creating a more pleasant climate than inland communities like Houston [71] (e.g. the average July high in Texas City is 89 °F (32 °C) with 9.8 mph (15.8 km/h) winds vs. 94 °F (34 °C) with 6.7 mph (10.8 km/h ...