Texas City is a city in Galveston County in the U S state of Texas.
| FactSnippet No. 861,612 |
14 Facts About Texas City
2.
Texas City Refining Company was chartered in 1908 to build a refinery adjacent to the port facility.
| FactSnippet No. 861,613 |
3.
Texas City incorporated in 1911 with a mayor and commission form of government.
| FactSnippet No. 861,614 |
4.
Texas City was credited with attracting a sugar refinery, a fig processing plant, a gasoline cracking plant, and a grain elevator.
| FactSnippet No. 861,615 |
5.
Texas City is home to the Texas City Dike, a man-made breakwater built of tumbled granite blocks in the 1930s, that was originally designed to protect the lower Houston Ship Channel from silting.
| FactSnippet No. 861,616 |
6.
The Texas City disaster is widely regarded as the foundation of disaster planning for the United States.
| FactSnippet No. 861,617 |
7.
Texas City is mostly surrounded by a 17-mile-long levee system that was built in the early 1960s following the devastating floods from Hurricane Carla in 1961.
| FactSnippet No. 861,618 |
9.
Texas City economy has long been based on heavy industry, particularly shipping at the Port of Texas City, as well as petroleum and petrochemical refining.
| FactSnippet No. 861,620 |
10.
The Texas City Industrial Complex is a leading center of the petrochemical industry.
| FactSnippet No. 861,621 |
11.
The Port of Texas City became the third-leading port in Texas by tonnage and ninth in the nation.
| FactSnippet No. 861,622 |
12.
Texas City is served by the College of the Mainland, which is located in Texas City.
| FactSnippet No. 861,623 |
13.
In 1928, the City of Texas City dedicated a room in city hall to form a municipal library.
| FactSnippet No. 861,624 |
14.
Texas City Museum is at 409 6th Street North, in a two-story building formerly occupied by J C Penney Co.
| FactSnippet No. 861,625 |