Texas City, Texas

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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.
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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  • Not a bad place to live, but there is better nearby.
  • Site of the greatest industrial accident in American history. The ship GrandCamp, filled with Ammonium Nitrate exploded, killing hundreds and destroying much of the city in 1945.