• Thumbnail for Matagorda, Texas
    Matagorda (⫽ˈmætəˈɡɔːrdə⫽ ) is a census-designated place in Matagorda County, Texas, United States. It is located near the mouth of the Colorado River...
    6 KB (531 words) - 06:40, 27 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Matagorda Bay
    Matagorda Bay (⫽ˌmætəˈɡɔːrdə⫽ ) is a large Gulf of Mexico bay on the Texas coast, lying in Calhoun and Matagorda counties and located approximately 80...
    16 KB (1,803 words) - 05:57, 26 May 2022
  • Thumbnail for Matagorda County, Texas
    Matagorda County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, the population was 36,255. Its county seat is Bay City, not to...
    15 KB (1,121 words) - 16:08, 27 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bay City, Texas
    Bay City is a city and the county seat of Matagorda County, Texas, United States. The population was 17,614 at the 2010 census and 18,061 at the 2020...
    22 KB (1,568 words) - 10:46, 7 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Matagorda Island
    Matagorda Island (⫽ˌmætəˈɡɔːrdə⫽ ), Spanish for "thick bush," is a 38-mile (61 km) long barrier island on the Texas Gulf coast, located approximately...
    5 KB (446 words) - 14:01, 15 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Colorado River (Texas)
    of Texas List of tributaries of the Colorado River (Texas) Matagorda Bay—the river's mouth Texas Hill Country "Colorado River". Geographic Names Information...
    12 KB (973 words) - 01:47, 20 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sargent, Texas
    small unincorporated community located in the eastern corner of Matagorda County, Texas, United States. Sargent is a fishing, boating, and water sports...
    11 KB (1,180 words) - 18:00, 28 March 2024
  • Matagorda may refer to: Geography Matagorda, Texas, an unincorporated community in Texas Matagorda Bay, on the coast of Texas Matagorda County, Texas...
    824 bytes (144 words) - 14:15, 8 May 2014
  • Thumbnail for Hurricane Harvey
    with a hurricane warning from Port Mansfield to Matagorda; a tropical storm warning from Matagorda to High Island; a hurricane watch and tropical storm...
    152 KB (12,958 words) - 15:45, 4 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tethered Aerostat Radar System
    nautical miles (400 km) Sites located at Morgan City, Louisiana, and Matagorda, Texas, are in a cold-storage configuration. Contract management office and...
    13 KB (1,397 words) - 20:30, 18 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Palacios, Texas
    Palacios (⫽pəˈlæʃəs⫽ pə-LASH-əs) is a city in Matagorda County, Texas, United States. The population was 4,395 at the 2020 census. The native inhabitants...
    23 KB (1,956 words) - 21:49, 23 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of Texas hurricanes (1980–present)
    Bret, beaches in Matagorda County are closed due to the high water level. Further inland, heavy rainfall occurs across South Texas, reaching 13.18 in...
    113 KB (10,390 words) - 20:29, 6 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of Texas hurricanes (1950–1979)
    soon afterwards, Hurricane Fern made landfall between Freeport, Texas and Matagorda, Texas as a tropical storm. Damage was minimal. September 4, 1973 – Tropical...
    34 KB (3,454 words) - 18:24, 26 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Estuaries of Texas
    Guadalupe Estuary (San Antonio Bay), the Colorado–Lavaca Estuary (Matagorda Bay), East Matagorda Bay, the San Bernard River and Cedar Lakes Estuary, the Brazos...
    30 KB (3,133 words) - 22:50, 10 November 2021
  • Thumbnail for Matagorda Island Air Force Base
    of Corpus Christi, Texas. It was closed by the United States Air Force in 1975. The original airfield was built in 1942 as Matagorda Island General Bombing...
    7 KB (515 words) - 07:59, 11 February 2024
  • Matagorda Peninsula (⫽ˈmætəˈɡɔːrdə⫽ ) is a narrow spit of land on the southeastern coast of Texas in the United States. The peninsula is in Matagorda...
    2 KB (164 words) - 23:26, 21 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for Indianola, Texas
    on Matagorda Bay in Calhoun County, Texas, United States. The community, once the county seat of Calhoun County, is a part of the Victoria, Texas, Metropolitan...
    21 KB (2,698 words) - 16:24, 2 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Texas
    Texas (⫽ˈtɛksəs⫽ TEK-səss, locally also ⫽ˈtɛksɪz⫽ TEK-siz; Spanish: Texas or Tejas, pronounced [ˈtexas]) is the most populous state in the South Central...
    254 KB (24,453 words) - 07:17, 3 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Intracoastal Waterway
    Intracoastal Waterway (category Historic American Engineering Record in Texas)
    Worth Lagoon Little River Long Island Sound Lower New York Bay Mobile Bay Matagorda Bay Mississippi Sound Narragansett Bay Pamlico Sound Pensacola Bay Perdido...
    24 KB (2,505 words) - 17:38, 21 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Texas barrier islands
    listed from northeast to southwest, are Galveston Island, Follet's Island, Matagorda Island, San José Island, Mustang Island, Padre Island, and Brazos Island...
    5 KB (175 words) - 14:22, 11 March 2023
  • Thumbnail for Matagorda Peninsula Army Airfield
    Matagorda Peninsula Army Airfield is a closed military airfield, located on Matagorda Island, Texas. It was used during World War II as a training airfield...
    6 KB (484 words) - 07:59, 11 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Calhoun County, Texas
    Port Lavaca and Port O’Connor. 1983 Matagorda Island State Park and Wildlife Management Area is run by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department under an...
    20 KB (1,637 words) - 14:59, 27 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Van Vleck, Texas
    place (CDP) in Matagorda County, Texas, United States. The population total represents one of the few areas with positive growth in Matagorda County. The...
    14 KB (1,522 words) - 01:12, 7 June 2024
  • on the site of today's Matagorda lighthouse. The expedition's chronicler, Henri Joutel, described his first impression of Texas as follows: "The country...
    34 KB (4,584 words) - 20:17, 6 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for East Matagorda Bay
    East Matagorda Bay is a bay off Matagorda County on the Texas Gulf Coast (at 28°43' N, 95°49' W), enclosed by the Matagorda Peninsula and the tidal flats...
    8 KB (703 words) - 16:55, 12 November 2022
  • Thumbnail for 1866 Atlantic hurricane season
    hurricane affected land during the season. The first hurricane hit Matagorda, Texas in July, the only one of the season to hit the United States as a hurricane...
    16 KB (1,536 words) - 02:41, 21 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Matagorda Island Light
    The Matagorda Island Light is located on Matagorda Island in Calhoun County, in the U.S. state of Texas. Once under the jurisdiction of the United States...
    6 KB (570 words) - 23:14, 19 June 2023
  • another growth boom due to the increase of military personnel on nearby Matagorda Island Air Force Base. That same year, Hurricane Carla destroyed the town...
    8 KB (529 words) - 15:06, 25 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for LyondellBasell
    refinery, technology center La Porte, Texas Mansfield, Texas Matagorda, Texas Mont Belvieu, Texas Victoria, Texas Jackson, Tennessee Altamira, Mexico South...
    23 KB (2,001 words) - 06:22, 28 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1976 United States presidential election in Texas
    Castro, Eastland, Gonzales, Parker, Hood, Johnson, Anderson, Brazoria, Matagorda, Kinney, Medina, Wharton, Lavaca, Archer, Bosque, Aransas, Bell, Borden...
    122 KB (593 words) - 05:04, 20 June 2024