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State Highway 65 (Texas)
State Highway 65 (SH 65) is a Texas state route that runs for within Chambers County, from near Anahuac to Stowell. This route was designated on December 30, 1961, replacing a portion of SH 73 identified as SH 73-T. History Previous route SH 65 was originally designated on August 21, 1923 along a route from Mt. Pleasant to Gladewater Gladewater is a city in Gregg County, Texas, Gregg and Upshur County, Texas, Upshur counties in the U.S. state of Texas with a 2020 census population of 6,134. In the early 20th century, Gladewater was an oil boom town. In 1995, the Texas Legislat ..., replacing part of SH 11. On September 26, 1939, this route was cancelled as it was part of U.S. Highway 271, which it was cosigned with since 1935. Junction list {{jctbtm References 065 Transportation in Chambers County, Texas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anahuac, Texas
Anahuac ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Texas on the coast of Trinity Bay. The population of the city was 1,980 at the 2020 census. Anahuac is the seat of Chambers County and is situated in Southeast Texas. The Texas Legislature designated the city as the "Alligator Capital of Texas" in 1989. Anahuac hosts an annual alligator festival.Horswell, Cindy.Anahuac drowning in budget and water woes" ''Houston Chronicle''. Monday July 23, 2012. Retrieved on July 25, 2012. History The Mexican term ''Anahuac'' comes from Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs. The name has various meanings, including "center", "world", and "city", but it also means "capital". Anáhuac is the pre-Columbian name of the Valley of Mexico and its former lake basins around Mexico City, often including the Lerma and Pánuco river systems. Despite the name, neither the city of Anahuac, Texas, nor the immediate region were ever part of the Aztec Empire. The first dwellers in this area were the Atakapan people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stowell, Texas
Stowell is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Chambers County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,743 at the 2020 census. Geography Stowell is located on the eastern border of Chambers County at (29.787468, -94.379386). It is bordered by Winnie to the north and Jefferson County to the east. Texas State Highway 124 passes through Stowell, leading north to Interstate 10 on the north side of Winnie and south to High Island on the Gulf of Mexico. Texas State Highway 65 leads west from Stowell to Anahuac, the Chambers County seat. According to the United States Census Bureau, the Stowell CDP has a total area of , of which is land and , or 1.91%, is water. Demographics As of the 2020 United States census, there were 1,743 people, 642 households, and 462 families residing in the CDP. As of the census of 2000, there were 1,572 people, 564 households, and 433 families residing in the CDP. The population density was . There were 619 housin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chambers County, Texas
Chambers County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 46,571. The county seat is Anahuac. Chambers County is one of the nine counties that comprise Greater Houston, the Houston– The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan statistical area. History Mission Nuestra Señora de la Luz, a Spanish mission in Texas, was established in 1756 near what is now Wallisville. Chambers County was founded in 1858. It is named for Thomas Jefferson Chambers, a major general in the Texas Revolution. In 2019, Atlas Air Flight 3591, a cargo flight operating for Amazon Air, crashed in the Trinity Bay, in Chambers County and near Anahuac, while flying from Miami to Houston. All three people onboard were killed. Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which are land and (31%) are covered by water. The south and southwestern parts of the county lie in the Galveston Bay Area on the shores of Trinity Bay and E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Highway 73 (Texas)
State Highway 73 (SH 73) is a Texas state highway that runs from Winnie, Texas, Winnie through Port Arthur, Texas, Port Arthur to near Orange, Texas, Orange. In September 2008, Hurricane Ike forced the closure of SH 73. Among other road debris left by the storm were two 200-ton barges. The storm surge pushed the barges inland before they came to rest on the highway. History Previous routes The original SH 73 was designated on August 21, 1923, from Oldenburg, Texas, Oldenburg to Houston, Texas, Houston, absorbing the eastern half of Texas State Highway 3, SH 3A. On October 26, 1932, it was rerouted southwest from Katy to Alleyton, Texas, Alleyton, with the portion from Oldenburg to Industry, Texas, Industry being another section (Farm to Market Road 109, FM 109 would connect the two sections later). On November 30, 1932, the section from Katy to Sealy was taken over for maintenance, and plans to construct the section from Sealy to Alleyton were underway. On D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gladewater, Texas
Gladewater is a city in Gregg and Upshur counties in the U.S. state of Texas with a 2020 census population of 6,134. In the early 20th century, Gladewater was an oil boom town. In 1995, the Texas Legislature proclaimed it the "Antique Capital of East Texas." History Gladewater was founded by the Texas and Pacific Railway Company in 1873 on land bought from Jarrett Dean and Anderson White. A community called St. Clair, to the east, moved to Gladewater when the railroad announced that the only mail stop in the area would be there; residents from Point Pleasant, also bypassed by the railroad, moved to Gladewater. The first post office at Gladewater was established on August 22, 1873. The town's name probably originated from its proximity to Glade Creek, a tributary of the Sabine River that rose in a rather barren region called the Glades. In 1874, Gladewater was incorporated with a mayor-alderman government. The incorporation lapsed, and a new charter was not obtained until 1931, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Texas State Highway 11
State Highway 11 (SH 11) is a highway that runs from US 59 (Future I-369) in Linden to SH 56 in Sherman in northeast Texas. Route description SH 11 begins at an intersection with State Highway 56 on the easternedge of Sherman, just north of the Sherman Regional Airport. The route then travels to the southeast through Northeast Texas. In 2009, it was rerouted around the city of Commerce, concurrent with State Highway 24 and State Loop 178, with the old routing through Commerce transferred to a business route. It continues southeast toward Sulphur Springs, where it shares a concurrency with State Highway 154 and the old routing of US 67, and intersects I-30 on the south side of town. After Sulphur Springs, the route takes a more easterly direction through Northeast Texas, before reaching its eastern terminus at US 59 (Future I-369) on the eastern edge of Linden. History State Highway 11 was one of the original twenty-five state highways proposed on June 21, 1917, overl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Texas Department Of Transportation
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT ) is a government agency in the American state of Texas. Though the public face of the agency is generally associated with the construction and maintenance of the state's immense state highway system, the agency is also responsible for overseeing aviation, rail, and public transportation systems in the state. At one time, TxDOT also administered vehicle registration; but this function transferred to the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles, a state agency which began operations in November 2009. The agency has been headquartered in the Dewitt C. Greer Building at 125 East 11th Street in Downtown Austin, Texas, since 1933. History The Texas Legislature created the Texas Highway Department in 1916 to administer federal highway construction and maintenance. In 1975, its responsibilities increased when the agency merged with the Texas Mass Transportation Commission, resulting in the formation of the State Department of Highways and Pub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Highways In Texas
Texas state highways are a network of highways owned and maintained by the U.S. state of Texas. The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is the state agency responsible for the day-to-day operations and maintenance of the system. Texas has the largest state highway system, followed closely by North Carolina's state highway system. In addition to the nationally numbered Interstate Highways and U.S. Highways, the highway system consists of a main network of state highways, loops, spurs, and beltways that provide local access to the other highways. The system also includes a large network of farm to market roads that connect rural areas of the state with urban areas and the rest of the state highway system. The state also owns and maintains some park and recreational roads located near and within state and national parks, as well as recreational areas. All state highways, regardless of classification, are paved roads. The Old San Antonio Road, also known as the El Camino ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
