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Texas City is a city in Galveston County in the state of Texas within the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land metropolitan area. As of the 2010 US Census, the city population was 45,099. Located on the southwest shoreline of Galveston Bay, Texas City is a busy deepwater port on Texas' Gulf Coast, as well as a petroleum refining and petrochemical manufacturing center.
Most of Texas City is within the Texas City Independent School District, while smaller portions are within the Dickinson and the La Marque Independent School Districts.
The city is notable as the site of a major disaster on April 16, 1947, when the French ship Grandcamp, containing ammonium nitrate fertilizer, exploded, initiating what is generally regarded as the worst industrial accident in U.S. history.
Most of Texas City is within the Texas City Independent School District, while smaller portions are within the Dickinson and the La Marque Independent School Districts.
The city is notable as the site of a major disaster on April 16, 1947, when the French ship Grandcamp, containing ammonium nitrate fertilizer, exploded, initiating what is generally regarded as the worst industrial accident in U.S. history.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City,_Texas
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Coordinates: 29°24'10"N 94°56'39"W
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- Orange, Texas 136 km
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- Baton Rouge, Louisiana 382 km
- Bayou Golf Course 2.8 km
- USACE Texas City Levee 2.9 km
- Moses Lake 3.5 km
- Texas City Prairie Preserve 4.7 km
- Galveston County Industrial Water Reservoir 5.1 km
- Dickinson Bay 7.1 km
- Galveston Bay 16 km
- Galveston County 16 km
- West Bay/Western Galveston Bay 19 km
- Clear Creek 22 km
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