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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 Clear Lake Patrol Division serves the portion of Clear Lake City in Houston. [19] Pasadena Police Department is the police department for Pasadena. The police department for Taylor Lake Village is the Lakeview Police Department, formed in January 1987 by a merger of the police departments of Taylor Lake Village and El Lago . [ 20 ]
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.
Clear Creek Independent School District (CCISD) is a school district based in League City, Texas, United States. The district serves most of the Clear Lake Area and some other neighboring parts of the Houston metropolitan area. CCISD is the 29th largest school district in Texas, spanning 103 square miles and serving over 41,000 students.
Melinda Webb School (infants to 7 years old) - Located in the Texas Medical Center, [58] it is operated by the Center for Hearing and Speech and was previously at 3636 W. Dallas. [59] The school serves as a day school for children not yet mainstreamed into regular classrooms and a speech and therapy center for those that are.
A distillery was constructed and run by the US government in 1884 on the shores of adjacent Clear Lake. A few people were drawn to the area by the government project, and by 1890 the town of Clear Lake had been founded. Robert L. Palmer served as the postmaster when the office was established there in 1898, and it closed sometime around 1930.
In 1968 the Coordinating Board of Texas College and University System authorized the University of Houston to build the Clear Lake Graduate Center (CLGC) on the original 50-acre (200,000 m 2). In addition, the Coordinating Board called for the creation of a stand-alone university in Clear Lake to offer upper-division and graduate-level programs ...
The lake feeds Galveston Bay. It is bordered by Houston (Clear Lake City), Pasadena, League City, Clear Lake Shores, Taylor Lake Village, Seabrook and El Lago, Texas. NASA's Johnson Space Center lies near its shores. The lake is a major recreation center and home to one of the largest concentrations of recreational boats and marinas in the nation.