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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 Golf Course opened in 1963 and closed in 2005. [38] It took up about 180 acres (73 ha) of land. The Clear Lake City Water Authority (CLCWA) took possession of the property. [39] The CLCWA proposed a storm detention area and a dog park for the former property. [40]
Despite being in the center of the Blackland Prairie, seasonal flooding in the area around Clear Lake devastated crops. By 1914, Clear Lake had a population of 100, up from an estimated 75 in 1910. Despite the 1954 creation of Lavon Lake, the estimated population of the village went down to fifty from the 1930s to 1990. [3]
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.
Bay Glen is a neighborhood located within the master-planned community of Clear Lake City in Houston, Texas. The neighborhood was developed in the mid-1980s and borders the neighborhoods of Bay Knoll, Bay Pointe, Bay Oaks, Northfork and Oak Brook West. Bay Glen, along with Bay Knoll, is a member of the Pineloch Community Association. [1]
The University of Houston at Clear Lake City was renamed University of Houston–Clear Lake on April 26, 1983. [15] During the 73rd Texas Legislature in 1993, an unsuccessful attempt was made by the City of Pasadena to change the institution's name to the University of Houston at Pasadena. [16] [17]
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.
Houston Methodist Clear Lake Hospital, located in Nassau Bay, Texas, across from Johnson Space Center, is one of seven community hospitals that are part of Houston Methodist. It employs about 900 people, has an estimated 700 affiliated doctors and admits more than 5,700 patients annually. The hospital serves the Greater Bay area. [1] [2]