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Oyster Creek, Texas
''For the river in Fort Bend and Brazoria Counties, Texas see: Oyster Creek (Texas).'' Oyster Creek is a city in Brazoria County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,111 at the 2010 census. Geography Oyster Creek is located at (28.998521, –95.325062), partially bounded on the north by its eponymous stream. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which, of it is land and of it (5.50%) is water. Demographics At the 2000 census there were 1,192 people in 440 households, including 304 families, in the city. The population density was . There were 527 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 87.00% White, 3.61% African American, 1.59% Native American, 0.42% Asian, 5.29% from other races, and 2.10% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 16.86%. Of the 440 households 32.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 53.0% were married couples living together, 10.0% ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oyster Creek (Texas)
''For the community in Brazoria County, Texas see: Oyster Creek, Texas.'' Oyster Creek is a stream in Texas that rises at at a divergence from ''Dolly's Gully'' near Skinner Lane (Skinner Gate), north of Richmond in Fort Bend County. Likely Oyster Creek formerly rose at the mouth of Dolly's Gully on Jones Creek some 3500 feet to the SW prior to installation of control gates and a 350' channel from the (since removed) ''Second Lift'' pumping station by the Gulf Coast Water Authority, which utilizes the upper reaches of Oyster Creek to deliver municipal and irrigation water to various recipients in Fort Bend and Brazoria counties. Oyster Creek is north and east of, and roughly parallel to, the Brazos River. It originally flowed southeast 52 miles to the Gulf of Mexico in Brazoria County. Portions of the stream no longer follow their natural course because in Missouri City the upper section has been partially channelized, ultimately connecting with the Brazos River via a short ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Geological Survey
The United States Geological Survey (USGS), formerly simply known as the Geological Survey, is a scientific agency of the United States government. The scientists of the USGS study the landscape of the United States, its natural resources, and the natural hazards that threaten it. The organization's work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology. The USGS is a fact-finding research organization with no regulatory responsibility. The agency was founded on March 3, 1879. The USGS is a bureau of the United States Department of the Interior; it is that department's sole scientific agency. The USGS employs approximately 8,670 people and is headquartered in Reston, Virginia. The USGS also has major offices near Lakewood, Colorado, at the Denver Federal Center, and Menlo Park, California. The current motto of the USGS, in use since August 1997, is "science for a changing world". The agency's previous slogan, adopted on the occasion of its hundredt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cities In Brazoria County, Texas
A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be defined as a permanent and densely settled place with administratively defined boundaries whose members work primarily on non-agricultural tasks. Cities generally have extensive systems for housing, transportation, sanitation, utilities, land use, production of goods, and communication. Their density facilitates interaction between people, government organisations and businesses, sometimes benefiting different parties in the process, such as improving efficiency of goods and service distribution. Historically, city-dwellers have been a small proportion of humanity overall, but following two centuries of unprecedented and rapid urbanization, more than half of the world population now lives in cities, which has had profound consequences for g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brazoria County Library System
The Brazoria County Library System operates public libraries in Brazoria County, Texas, United States. The system has several libraries in many cities. Branches * Alvin Library - Alvin * Angleton Library - Angleton * Brazoria Library - Brazoria * Clute Library - Clute * Danbury Library - Danbury * Freeport Library - Freeport * Lake Jackson Library - Lake Jackson * Manvel Library - Manvel * Pearland Library - Pearland * Pearland Westside Library - Pearland Pearland ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, within Brazoria County, with portions extending into Fort Bend and Harris counties. The city of Pearland is a principal city within the metropolitan statistical area. At the 2020 U.S. census, t ... * Sweeny Library - Sweeny * West Columbia Library - West Columbia External links {{Authority control Brazoria Education in Brazoria County, Texas Angleton, Texas Freeport, Texas Pearland, Texas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Texas Legislature
The Texas Legislature is the state legislature of the US state of Texas. It is a bicameral body composed of a 31-member Senate and a 150-member House of Representatives. The state legislature meets at the Capitol in Austin. It is a powerful arm of the Texas government not only because of its power of the purse to control and direct the activities of state government and the strong constitutional connections between it and the Lieutenant Governor of Texas, but also due to Texas's plural executive. The Legislature is the constitutional successor of the Congress of the Republic of Texas since Texas's 1845 entrance into the Union. The Legislature held its first regular session from February 16 to May 13, 1846. Structure and operations The Texas Legislature meets in regular session on the second Tuesday in January of each odd-numbered year. The Texas Constitution limits the regular session to 140 calendar days. The lieutenant governor, elected statewide separately from the gov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brazosport College
Brazosport College (BC) is a public community college in Lake Jackson, Texas. The college was opened in 1968 and offers primarily associate degrees and some bachelor's degrees. The campus features The Clarion, a regional musical performance venue, in addition to the Brazosport Center for the Arts and Sciences which houses the Brazosport Museum of Natural Science as well as the Brazosport Planetarium among other institutions. As defined by the Texas Legislature, the official service area of Brazosport College is the Brazosport, Columbia-Brazoria, Damon, and Sweeny school districts, and the Angleton Independent School District excluding that portion annexed by Alvin Community College prior to September 1, 1995. The service area includes most of Lake Jackson, Clute, Freeport, Jones Creek, Oyster Creek, Quintana, Richwood, and Surfside Beach. History In 1948, voters of the Brazosport Independent School District voted to create the Brazosport Junior College District. How ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brazosport Facts
The ''Brazosport Facts'' is the largest daily newspaper for Brazoria County, Texas, a part of the Greater Houston area. The newspaper is owned by Southern Newspapers Inc., and began in 1913. History The paper was started by printer Roy Ruffin as the ''Freeport Facts'' months after the 1912 founding of Freeport, Texas by the Freeport Sulphur Company. One year later, the paper was acquired by C.P. Kendall, Sr. who also owned newspapers in Port Aransas, and the '' Angleton Times'' in Angleton. A 1932 Freeport hurricane destroyed the ''Facts'' building and killed 40 people. Separate area newspapers, the ''Brazoria County Review'', ''Velasco World'', and ''West Columbia Light'' were acquired by businessman W.D. Johnston. In 1949, he then merged the papers into ''The Daily Review''. In 1951, Southern Newspapers Inc. bought an interest in ''The Daily Review''. The next year, it purchased the ''Freeport Facts''. Merging the acquisitions into ''The Daily Facts-Review'', Southern N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brazosport High School
Brazosport High School is a public high school located at the intersection of Brazosport Boulevard and West 2nd Street in Freeport, Texas, United States. It handles grades nine through twelve and is part of the Brazosport Independent School District. The high school serves the following: - Compare to town limit maps. Also: (old map with former boundaries)With these established, see which establishes which schools they feed into: Logically anything zoned to the feeder elementary schools goes to Brazosport High. Older feeder maps: Freeport, as well as surrounding Jones Creek, Oyster Creek, Quintana, and Surfside Beach. The campus recently received major renovations, removing the majority of the original campus. Athletics Brazosport High School is often nicknamed "B-Port" by its students. Athletic teams are known as the "Exporters" and sport the colors red, white and blue. The Exporters have earned two high school baseball state 4A championships (1964 and 1966). The Exporter f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brazosport Independent School District
Brazosport Independent School District is a school district based in Clute, Texas (USA) in Greater Houston. The district serves the cities, towns, and villages of Clute, Freeport, Jones Creek, Lake Jackson, Oyster Creek, Quintana, Richwood, and Surfside Beach. In addition it serves the unincorporated area of Turtle Cove. History The district opened in 1944.About BISD Archive Brazosport Independent School District. Retrieved on March 22, 2014. Prior to 2013 the district had contracts with the police forces of Clute, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poverty Line
The poverty threshold, poverty limit, poverty line or breadline is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country. The poverty line is usually calculated by estimating the total cost of one year's worth of necessities for the average adult.Poverty Lines – Martin Ravallion, in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition, London: Palgrave Macmillan The cost of housing, such as the rent for an apartment, usually makes up the largest proportion of this estimate, so economists track the real estate market and other housing cost indicators as a major influence on the poverty line. Individual factors are often used to account for various circumstances, such as whether one is a parent, elderly, a child, married, etc. The poverty threshold may be adjusted annually. In practice, like the definition of poverty, the official or common understanding of the poverty line is significantly higher in developed countries than in developing countries. In October 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Race And Ethnicity In The United States Census
Race and ethnicity in the United States census, defined by the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the United States Census Bureau, are the self-identified categories of race or races and ethnicity chosen by residents, with which they most closely identify, and indicate whether they are of Hispanic or Latino origin (the only categories for ethnicity). The racial categories represent a social-political construct for the race or races that respondents consider themselves to be and, "generally reflect a social definition of race recognized in this country." OMB defines the concept of race as outlined for the U.S. census as not "scientific or anthropological" and takes into account "social and cultural characteristics as well as ancestry", using "appropriate scientific methodologies" that are not "primarily biological or genetic in reference." The race categories include both racial and national-origin groups. Race and ethnicity are considered separate and distin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000 United States Census
The United States census of 2000, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13.2 percent over the 248,709,873 people enumerated during the 1990 census. This was the twenty-second federal census and was at the time the largest civilly administered peacetime effort in the United States. Approximately 16 percent of households received a "long form" of the 2000 census, which contained over 100 questions. Full documentation on the 2000 census, including census forms and a procedural history, is available from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series. This was the first census in which a state – California – recorded a population of over 30 million, as well as the first in which two states – California and Texas – recorded populations of more than 20 million. Data availability Microdata from the 2000 census is freely available through the Integrated Public Use Microdata Serie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
