Texas is located in the south of the United States and bordersNew Mexico,Oklahoma,Arkansas,Louisiana, and the Gulf Coast. It’s the second-largest state in the United States (afterAlaska) with a diverse landscape. This includes forested land in East Texas, the Rio Grande Valley delta in the...
Texas' Gulf Coast stretches for hundreds of miles, from the Louisiana border to Brownsville on the Rio Grande. Houston Rio Grande Valley Corpus Christi BrownsvilleTexas Panhandle Photo: Leaflet, CC BY-SA 3.0. The northwest corner of Texas is known as the Texas Panhandle, probably because it jut...
East Texas cities, counties and county seats, things to do, travel, hotels, lakes, road trips, fall foliage, and maps
Galveston is a city on Galveston Island, off the Texas Gulf Coast, approximately 45 minutes southeast of Houston. Mapcarta, the open map.
All current models show that if something were to form in the gulf, approaching fronts from our north should steer any tropical activity to the east towards the west coast of Florida, having no impact on the coastal bend at all. The latest from NHC Miami is down to only a 30% chance ...
This Hub Site Application of Coastal Texas Hub was developed by the USACE Galveston District Geospatial Team.
Marker Text: In 1835, Joseph Jordan and William S. McDonald donated about 500 acres of land in this area for the town of Houston, later known as Fort Houston. An early map of the townsite shows a section designated as a "public burying ground." The infant child of the Rev. Peter Fu...
Texas Beaches It's everything you would expect from the perfect beach vacation, in a place you may not expect! The southeastern side of Texas sits on the Gulf Coast, where the water is clean and clear, the sand is soft and warm and the action never stops. South Padre Island, Port ...
Refugio County, TexasCadastral map of Refugio County, Texas in the Gulf Coast region. Some notes and features are marked in color. The town of Bayside is penciled in on the map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).P. Appell...
In the end, only four survived, including the famed Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, who explored much of the modern-day state before finding his way to the west coast of Mexico, where Spain had some settlements. Unfortunately, de Vaca didn’t have any mapping tools, so he couldn’t ma...