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Portland is a city primarily located in San Patricio County with some water bodies extending into Nueces County in the U.S. state of Texas. Its population was 20,383 as of the 2020 United States census .
U.S. Highway 181 is a south–north U.S. Highway located entirely in the state of Texas.Both termini are at Interstate 37, the road that it mainly parallels to the east.US 181 begins in Corpus Christi, Texas at mile marker 0 [citation needed] to the south, through south-central Texas to just south of San Antonio to the north (mile marker 131), for a total length of 137 miles (220 km).
The U.S. state of Texas is divided into 254 counties, more than any other U.S. state. [1] While only about 20% of Texas counties are generally located within the Houston—Dallas—San Antonio—Austin areas, they serve a majority of the state's population with approximately 22,000,000 inhabitants.
When Texas was annexed by the United States in 1845, the area was stabilized by the presence of U.S. troops under General Zachary Taylor. In 1845, the county was formed (San Patricio is Spanish for Saint Patrick , the primary patron saint of the colonists' home country of Ireland), and Corpus Christi was designated as the county seat.
Top 25 water ports by tonnage. This is a list of ports of the United States, ranked by tonnage. [1] Ports in the United States handle a wide variety of goods that are critical to the global economy, including petroleum, grain, steel, automobiles, and containerized goods.
Texas official travel map at the Texas Department of Transportation (Adobe Acrobat format, magnification required for legibility) Satellite image of SH 361 ferry crossing at Port Aransas at Google Maps; Mustang Island State Park web site
State Highway 35 (SH 35) is a 206.5-mile (332.3 km) state highway near the southeastern edge of Texas, United States, that is maintained by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). It runs primarily south–north, paralleling the Gulf of Mexico for much of its length, from a junction with Interstate 37 in Corpus Christi to Interstate 45 ...
Gregory-Portland Independent School District is a public school district based in Portland, Texas . In addition to Portland, the district also serves the city of Gregory as well as the census-designated place of Tradewinds. [1] In 2009, the school district was rated "academically acceptable" by the Texas Education Agency. [2]