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Kemah (/ ˈ k iː m ə / KEE-mə) is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, southeast of Houston along west Galveston Bay. The city's population was 1,807 at the 2020 census, [6] down from 2,330 at the 2000 census. Located in Galveston County, Kemah's main industry is shipping. Originally a small fishing town, the city has become a tourist ...
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.
State Highway 96 (SH 96), also known as League City Parkway, is a state highway in the U.S. state of Texas. The highway runs approximately 6.5 miles (10.5 km) between Interstate 45 and SH 146 /future SH 99 in Galveston County , connecting the cities of League City and Kemah .
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The Galveston Bay Area, also known as Bay Area Houston or simply the Bay Area, [2] [3] is a region that surrounds the Galveston Bay estuary of Southeast Texas in the United States, within Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area.
Landry's, Inc. acquired property along the Kemah Waterfront in 1997 and opened the Kemah Boardwalk in 1998. In 2007, the Boardwalk Bullet, a high-speed wooden roller coaster opened on the boardwalk. The 96-foot-tall, 3,236-foot-long roller coaster is built on a 1-acre footprint, making it one of the most compact roller coasters in the world.
Map of Clear Lake Shores. Clear Lake Shores is located at (29.546493, –95.032605) [6] and is part of the Clear Lake. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.6 square miles (1.6 km 2), of which 0.5 square miles (1.3 km 2) is land and 0.2 square miles (0.52 km 2), or 27.69%, is water.
Bayview was a scattered row of houses located along Galveston Bay north of Farm to Market Road 646 and east of State Highway 146 and between Kemah and Clifton-by-the-Sea (now known as Bacliff). A post office operated between 1902 and 1913. After 1936 the community merged into the Kemah and Clifton-by-the-Sea communities. [5]