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[3] 1882 New York, Texas and Mexican Railway provides the first cross-country route to Rosenberg Junction in Fort Bend County. [3] 1883 Texas Continental Meat Company is erected in the county and is the largest meat packing plant in Texas. [3] 1886 Bray's Ferry is established at the San Antonio River by G. B. Amery and John Bray. [3]
(2,743 km 2) Bexar County: 029: San Antonio: 1836: One of the original 23 counties: San Antonio de Béxar, the major presidio in Mexican Texas, named in turn for the San Antonio River and the Spanish viceroy's family, who were Dukes of Béjar in Spain: 2,087,679: 1,247 sq mi (3,230 km 2) Blanco County: 031: Johnson City: 1858
William Wheeler House (Victoria, Texas) User:Nyttend/County templates/TX/3; User:Patapsco913/sandbox; File talk:Map of Texas highlighting Victoria County.svg; Template:VictoriaCountyTX-geo-stub; Template:Victoria County, Texas; Category:Populated places in Victoria County, Texas; Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Victoria County, Texas
Victoria's 562-acre (2.27-km 2) Riverside Park is home to the Texas Zoo, which houses more than 200 species of animals and plants indigenous to Texas, exhibiting them in their natural habitats. [30] The park is also home to more than 15 baseball fields which are occupied during the spring and summer by teams from the Victoria Metro region.
"A league and a labor" (4,605.5 acres; 18.638 km 2) was a common first land grant [4] and consisted of a league of land away from the river plus one extra labor of good riparian (river-situated) land. A headright of this much land was granted to "all persons [heads of families] except Africans and their descendants and Indians living in Texas ...
Texas has a total of 254 counties, by far the largest number of counties of any state. Counties in Texas have limited regulatory (ordinance) authority. [1] Counties also have much less legal power than home rule municipalities. They can only pass ordinances (local laws with penalties for violations) in cases where the Texas statutes have given ...
The Beaumont–Port Arthur metropolitan statistical area is a three-county region in Southeast Texas. The metropolitan area shares borders with the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area to the west and the Lake Charles metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Louisiana to the east. The area is also known as the Golden Triangle.
Minute Maid Park area proposed — Proposed (designated 1992) but unbuilt SH 211 — — — — 1934: 1942 Replaced by FM 50 and Spur 197 (now FM 390 and FM 390 Spur) SH 211: 3.7: 6.0 US 90 in Bexar County (south portion) FM 1957 west of San Antonio: 1986: current SH 211: 7.4: 11.9 FM 471 in Medina County (north portion) SH 16 in Bexar County