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Austin County, Texas
Austin County is a rural, agricultural dominated county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, the population was 30,167. Its seat is Bellville. The county and region was settled primarily by German emigrants in the 1800s. Austin County is included in the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land Metropolitan Statistical Area. Austin County and the state capital Austin were both named after Stephen F. Austin; the city Austin is in Travis County, approximately 110 miles to the northwest. History In 1836, the Texas Legislature established Austin County, naming it for Stephen F. Austin, who facilitated Texas' Anglo-American colonization. Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (1.5%) is covered by water. Adjacent counties * Washington County (north) * Waller County (east) * Fort Bend County (southeast) * Wharton County (south) * Colorado County (southwest) * Fayette County (west) Commu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Stephen or Steven is an English given name, first name. It is particularly significant to Christianity, Christians, as it belonged to Saint Stephen ( ), an early disciple and deacon who, according to the Book of Acts, was stoned to death; he is widely regarded as the first martyr (or "protomartyr") of the Christian Church. The name, in both the forms Stephen and Steven, is often shortened to Steve or Stevie (given name), Stevie. In English, the female version of the name is Stephanie. Many surnames are derived from the first name, including Template:Stephen-surname, Stephens, Stevens, Stephenson, and Stevenson, all of which mean "Stephen's (son)". In modern times the name has sometimes been given with intentionally non-standard spelling, such as Stevan or Stevon. A common variant of the name used in English is Stephan (given name), Stephan ( ); related names that have found some currency or significance in English include Stefan (given name), Stefan (pronounced or in English) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sealy, Texas
Sealy is a city in Austin County in southeastern Texas, United States. The population was 6,839 at the 2020 census. Sealy is located west of the downtown Houston area, on the most eastern part of the Texas-German belt region, an area settled by German emigrants. History San Felipe sold part of its original township to the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad to create Sealy in 1879. Sealy derives its name from business tycoon and majority stock holder of the GCSF RR, George Sealy of Galveston. In 1881, Daniel Haynes, a cotton gin builder, filled a request for a cotton-filled mattress which started a company. He named this the Sealy Mattress Company after the town. Business grew exponentially, which led to more innovation and several patents, such as a machine that compressed cotton. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water. Sealy is west of Downtown Houston. Demographics As of the 2020 Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millheim, Texas
Millheim is an unincorporated community in Austin County, in the U.S. state of Texas. According to the Handbook of Texas The Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) is an American nonprofit educational and research organization dedicated to documenting the history of Texas. It was founded in Austin, Texas, United States, on March 2, 1897. In November 2008, the ..., its population was 150 in 2000. It is located within the Greater Houston metropolitan area. Geography Millheim is located south of Bellville, south of Brenham, west of Cat Spring and northwest of Sealy in central Austin County. Education Millheim's first school held German-language classes and started sometime in the 1850s. Today, the community is served by the Bellville Independent School District. References {{authority control Unincorporated communities in Austin County, Texas Unincorporated communities in Texas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenney, Texas
Kenney (also Kinney) is an unincorporated community in northern Austin County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 200 in 2000. It is located within the Greater Houston metropolitan area. History The area around Kenney was first settled in the 1820s, with German immigrants arriving from the 1830s through 1900, but the community itself was not started until 1880, when a station on the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway between Brenham and Bellville and a post office was established. The community was originally named Thompson for its first postmaster, JE Thompson. After four years under that name, the community was renamed Kenneyville in 1884, in honor of evangelist John Wesley Kenney; the name was shortened to Kenney in 1892. The community thrived in 1885 with a steam-powered gristmill and cotton gin, three churches, several businesses, and 150 residents. Its population shrank to 75 in 1890. The community's first hote ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frydek, Texas
Frydek ( ) is an unincorporated community in southeastern Austin County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 150 from 1964 through 2000. It is located within the Greater Houston metropolitan area. Geography Frydek is situated on the west bank of the Brazos River on FM 1458, approximately south of San Felipe and east of Sealy. It is also located southeast of the county seat of Bellville. History The area was first settled when some members of the Old Three Hundred received land grants in the 1820s. Czechs set up the community of Frydek in 1895 on a league of land that was originally granted to Stephen F. Austin in 1831. The settlement was probably named after the town of Frýdek in what is now the Czech Republic The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, and historically known as Bohemia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cochran, Texas
Cochran is an unincorporated community in Austin County, in the U.S. state of Texas. According to the Handbook of Texas, its population was 116 in 2000. It is located within the Greater Houston metropolitan area. Cochran County was formed on August 21, 1876, from lands originally assigned to Bexar and Young counties, and it was named after Robert Cochran who died in the Alamo. Geography Cochran is located on Texas State Highway 159 at the edge of the Raccoon Bend oilfield, northeast of Bellville in far northeastern Austin County. Situated in the southern High Plains, Cochran County shares borders with New Mexico New Mexico is a state in the Southwestern United States, Southwestern region of the United States. It is one of the Mountain States of the southern Rocky Mountains, sharing the Four Corners region with Utah, Colorado, and Arizona. It also ... to the west, Bailey County to the north, Hockley County to the east, and Yoakum County to the south. Educa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cat Spring, Texas
Cat Spring is an unincorporated community in southern Austin County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, it had a population of 76 in 2000. Cat Spring was one of the first German/American settlements in Texas, and the location of Texas' first agricultural society. History Cat Spring was founded by immigrants from Oldenburg and Westphalia that was led by Ludwig Anton Siegmund von Roeder and Robert J. Kleberg in 1834, in which many of them were attracted to the area and the state by letters sent from Friedrich Ernst after he bought a plot of land in the Mill Creek Valley in 1831 and named for a nearby spring near the San Bernard River where a puma was killed by one of the German immigrants. The first Protestant church was organized in the community sometime between 1840-and 1844 by Louis C. Ervendberg. The community was the location of Texas' first agricultural society (Cat Spring Agricultural Society) in 1856. A post office was established at Cat Spr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burleigh, Texas
Burleigh is an unincorporated community in northeastern Austin County, in the U.S. state of Texas. According to the Handbook of Texas, its population was 69 from 1972 through 2000. It is located within the Greater Houston metropolitan area. Geography Burleigh is situated a distance of southeast of Bellville where eastbound FM 529 intersects with northbound FM 331. From Burleigh, FM 529 goes east to link with State Highway 6 in the Houston Houston ( ) is the List of cities in Texas by population, most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in the Southern United States. Located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, it is the county seat, seat of ... area. FM 331 connects with State Highway 36, to the south. For at Burleigh, FM 331 shares the right-of-way with FM 529, then it heads north before state maintenance ends at Oil Field Road. The Brazos River is east on FM 529, which is also called Crum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buckhorn, Austin County, Texas
Buckhorn is an unincorporated community in Austin County, in the U.S. state of Texas. According to the Handbook of Texas The Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) is an American nonprofit educational and research organization dedicated to documenting the history of Texas. It was founded in Austin, Texas, United States, on March 2, 1897. In November 2008, the ..., its population was 20 in 2000. It is located within the Greater Houston metropolitan area. Education Buckhorn had its own school in 1880. It had 21 students enrolled in 1918. Today, the community is served by the Bellville Independent School District. References Unincorporated communities in Austin County, Texas Unincorporated communities in Texas {{AustinCountyTX-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bleiblerville, Texas
Bleiblerville is an unincorporated community in northern Austin County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, its population was 71 in 2000. It is located within the Greater Houston metropolitan area. History Bleiblerville was named for Robert Bleibler, a Swiss immigrant, who ran the general store, post office, and saloon. Bleibler opened the general store in the area in the late 1880s. The community grew rapidly with the influx of many German immigrants in the late nineteenth century, and its post office was established in 1891. The community expanded in the 1960s with the increase of oil drilling in the community, in which it had 225 residents in 1966, but has since declined to 71 in 1972 and remained at that level through 2000. Theodore Wehring operated a cotton gin in the community in 1900. The American Red Cross had a chapter in the community during World War I that included ten black residents in its roster of 68 members. It had a population of 101 i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Ulm, Texas
New Ulm is an unincorporated community in Austin County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had an estimated population of 650 in 2000. Geography New Ulm is situated at the junction of Farm Roads 109 and 1094 in western Austin County, approximately 22 miles southwest of Bellville and 16 miles northeast of Columbus. History The history of New Ulm dates back to the 1840s. It was founded in 1841 as ''Duff's Settlement'', named for James C. Duff, who purchased the original land on which the town was built. This community sat approximately one mile north of the present New Ulm site. By the mid-1840s, the area grew as an influx of German-speaking settlers arrived from nearby communities such as Industry, Shelby, and Nassau Farm. After petitioning the government for a post office, one opened in 1852 under the name New Ulm – in commemoration of the well-known German city of Ulm, as many of the settlers came from that area. During the 185 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Felipe, Texas
San Felipe ( ), also known as San Felipe de Austin, is a town in Austin County, Texas, United States. The town was the social, economic, and political center of the early Stephen F. Austin colony. The population was 691 at the 2020 census. History In 1823, John McFarland operated a ferry on the Brazos River near this location. In the fall of the same year, the site was chosen by Stephen F. Austin, with the help of Felipe Enrique Neri, Baron de Bastrop, to be the main site in Texas for American colonization. Founded in 1824 as San Felipe de Austin, the town served as the capital of Stephen F. Austin's first colony and the founding site of the Texas Rangers. By 1828, San Felipe had been surveyed, with ''Calle Commercio'' laid out as the main commercial street. Austin and his secretary, Samuel May Williams, both resided in log cabins on the square. There were about 30 buildings, and at least one of these was a wood-framed structure. Also on the square was the tavern of Jonathan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
