Bolivar Peninsula (/ˈbɒlɪvər/ BOL-i-vər) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Galveston County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,769 at the...
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the entrance to Galveston Bay. The Bolivar Peninsula itself is a census-designated place, in Galveston County, Texas, United States, and part of the Houston–Sugar...
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Beach is an unincorporated community in the Bolivar Peninsula census-designated place, in Galveston County, Texas, United States. Also known as Patton, Crystal...
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Bolivar Roads is a natural navigable strait fringed by Bolivar Peninsula and Galveston Island emerging as a landform on the Texas Gulf Coast. The natural...
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Bolivar Peninsula, Texas Bolivar Lighthouse, Texas Bolivar Roads (Texas) Port Bolivar, Texas Bolivar, West Virginia Bolívar, Montevideo, a barrio Bolívar, Uruguay...
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seventeen miles east of Bolivar Point in the Bolivar Peninsula census-designated place, in Galveston County, Texas, United States. In 1990 and 2000, Gilchrist's...
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an unincorporated community located in the Bolivar Peninsula census-designated place, Galveston County, Texas, United States. The community is located in...
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1900 Galveston hurricane, a Category 4 hurricane that struck Galveston, Texas, drove a devastating surge ashore; between 6,000 and 12,000 people died...
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of New Orleans, while Harvey caused significant flooding in southeastern Texas after it dropped 60.58 in (1,539 mm) of rainfall; this was the highest rainfall...
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Hurricane Ike (category Hurricanes in Texas)
storm event, as a result of the relatively flat topography. On Bolivar Peninsula, Texas, dozens of people were rescued as flood waters exceeded 12 feet...
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of Texas City, and the Bolivar Peninsula. "Legislative Reference Library | Legislators and Leaders | Texas Legislators: Past & Present". lrl.texas.gov...
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(Houston), Texas Bolivar Peninsula, Texas Equestrian statue of Simón Bolívar (Washington, D.C.) Bolivar, West Virginia USS Simon Bolivar (SSBN-641), a nuclear...
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flood water sensors in Chambers County, Texas survived Ike's storm surge, while those on eastern Bolivar Peninsula were left inoperable during the hurricane...
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Island East Point at Wikimedia Commons Media related to Fort Travis at Bolivar Peninsula at Wikimedia Commons Media related to Sabine Pass at Gulf of Mexico...
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Goat Island is an island in Galveston County, Texas. It is just north of the Bolivar Peninsula. It was severely damaged by hurricanes in 2008. 29°28′11″N...
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Fort Travis Seashore Park (category Buildings and structures in Galveston County, Texas)
located in an area known as Bolivar Point, on the extreme west side of the Bolivar Peninsula in Galveston County, Texas. Mexican manuscript maps from...
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OF SH 124 ON BOLIVAR, Texas Department of Transportation https://ftp.dot.state.tx.us/pub/txdot-info/hou/bolivar-sh87.pdf "Bolivar Peninsula Beach & Dune...
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Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar Palacios Ponte y Blanco (24 July 1783 – 17 December 1830) was a Venezuelan statesman and military...
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Association, first formed in 1846, is the oldest in Texas. Port Bolivar on the Bolivar Peninsula was a port of secondary importance. Other development...
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north-eastern tip of Galveston Island and the south-western tip of the Bolivar Peninsula. The dike, one of the area's most beloved and enduring landmarks,...
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The Bolivar Bridge was a proposed bridge connecting Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula in the United States state of Texas. Its intention was to...
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lost 50 out of 78 breeding sites since 1970, and in the Great Plains of Texas, the decline is estimated to have been larger than 75% between 1998 and...
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Galveston Bay (redirect from Galveston Bay, Texas)
(5.5 ka), a barrier island, and Bolivar Peninsula (2.5 ka), which began as a spit. Human settlement in what is now Texas began at least 10 ka following...
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which inundates many of the barrier islands off the Texas coast. Many structures on the Bolivar Peninsula are destroyed. Most notably, in Gilchrist all but...
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Ball High School (category Education in Galveston, Texas)
Beach and the unincorporated communities of Port Bolivar and Crystal Beach on the Bolivar Peninsula. The school mascot is the Tornado, named "Tuffy Tor...
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a log carried in a large wave. A second fatality took place in Bolivar Peninsula, Texas. One home in Lake Charles suffered extensive damage after a tree...
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Galveston Island (redirect from Galveston Island, Texas)
the island. The far north end of the island is separated from the Bolivar Peninsula by Galveston Harbor, the entrance to Galveston Bay and the Houston...
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Ike Dike (category Galveston County, Texas)
Galveston, the Bolivar Peninsula, the Galveston Bay Area, and Houston. The barrier would extend across Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula and would...
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inland peninsula in the United States) Presque Isle, Erie, Pennsylvania Port Bolivar, Texas Encinal Peninsula, Flour Bluff, Corpus Christi, Texas Kentucky...
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miles in length. It covers the area north of the entire Bolivar Peninsula, and south of mainland Texas, including the small community of Smith Point at the...
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