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Bay City is a city and the county seat of Matagorda County, Texas, United States. The population was 17,614 at the 2010 census [ 5 ] and 18,061 at the 2020 census . [ 8 ]
Matagorda County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 36,255. [1] Its county seat is Bay City, [2] not to be confused with the larger Baytown in Harris and Chambers Counties. Matagorda County is named for the canebrakes that once grew along the coast (matagorda is a Spanish word meaning ...
The South Texas Project Electric Generating Station (also known as STP, STPEGS, South Texas Project), is a nuclear power station southwest of Bay City, Texas, United States. STP occupies a 12,200-acre (4,900 ha) site west of the Colorado River about 90 miles (140 km) southwest of Houston .
The Tribune is the second-oldest newspaper in Texas. Established on August 23, 1845, as a weekly, the newspaper moved from Matagorda to Bay City when the location of the county seat was changed in 1894. It was published as both a daily and weekly from 1904 to 1959, when the weekly ceased publication.
Bay City: 12: Price-Farwell House: Price-Farwell House: October 14, 2009 : 308 S. Bay Blvd. Palacios: Recorded Texas Historic Landmark 13: South Side Residential Historic District: South Side Residential Historic District: May 30, 2007
The Hawkins Ranch was established by James Boyd Hawkins in 1846. [2] It was a sugarcane plantation, with 101 African American slaves by 1860. [2] [3] In December 1863, during the American Civil War of 1861–1865, Confederate States Army General John B. Magruder was inspecting coastal defenses in the area and "stopp[ed] awhile at Hawkins' plantation and other hospitable places."
Bay City Independent School District is a 4A public school district based in Bay City, Texas ().It is the largest school district in Matagorda county, covering 158 sq mi. [7] BCISD operates five campuses: Bay City High School, Bay City Junior High, Tenie Holmes Elementary, Linnie Roberts Elementary, and John H. Cherry Elementary.
Texas's 14th congressional district for the United States House of Representatives stretches from Freeport to Orange, Texas. It formerly covered the area south and southwest of the Greater Houston region, including Galveston, in the state of Texas. The district was created as a result of the 1900 U.S. census and was first contested in 1902.