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AUSTWELL, Texas is known as the "Gateway to the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR)." The city of Austwell is located between Tivoli and ANWR on State Highway 239 in Refugio, Texas, accessible by exiting State Highway 35 or FM 774.
Austwell is part of the Austwell-Tivoli ISD, which is a 1-A school district.
Austwell is surrounded by farms, which primarily consist of grain sorghum, corn, and cotton.
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 Austwell Texas Resource Guide, City or community of Austwell, Texas Facts, Information, Relocation, Real Estate, ...
The population of Austwell is approximately 200 (2000).
The distance from Austwell to Washington DC is 1388 miles.
Austwell is positioned 28.39 degrees north of the equator and 96.84 degrees west of the prime meridian.
www.usacitiesonline.com /txcountyaustwell.htm   (441 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online:
Austwell is on Farm Road 774 near Hynes Bay in northeastern Refugio County.
The community served as the terminus of the Austwell branch of the St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway.
Austwell was incorporated by an election held on September 10, 1914.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/AA/hla30.html   (260 words)

  
 Tivoli Texas; Texas Gulf Coast.
According to the Handbook of Texas Tivoli (pronounced Ty-vole-ah) was founded in 1907 by rancher Preston R. Austin.
Austin (with partners) was also responsible for the founding of nearby Austwell, Texas.
He was instrumental in bringing the railroads into that section of Texas, establishing the Gulf Coast Fair Association, and is reputed to be the first person to use wire fencing in Texas to close the open ranges.
www.texasescapes.com /TexasGulfCoastTowns/TivoliTexas.htm   (505 words)

  
 Austwell Texas.
Austin's far-sighted plans for both Tivoli and Austwell connected the two cotton-growing communities with the market in Victoria.
Although a wharf was built, the bay was too shallow for the town to develop as a port.
Austwell was damaged by hurricanes in 1919 and 1942.
www.texasescapes.com /TexasGulfCoastTowns/AustwellTexas.htm   (735 words)

  
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Austwell is located on State Highway 239 in Refugio County.
Austwell is also neighbor to the many chemical plants in the surrounding region, including Union Carbide, Brown and Root, Vistron, Dupont, Alcoa, Equistar Chemical (Lyondel), Formosa, and others.
Permanent exhibits are located in the Refugio County Museum in Heritage Park, which trace the history of Refugio, from the establishment of the Spanish Mission, built in 1795, to the immigration of Irish settlers.
www.refugiocountytx.org /Towns/towns.html   (640 words)

  
 Austwell, Texas
Austwell, Texas is 30 miles S of Victoria, Texas and 53 miles NE of Corpus Christi, Texas.
Among Austwell political contributors, John Kerry was favored among Presidential candidates in 2004, with $250.
Of the housing in Austwell, approximately 85% is occupied by their owners.
www.citytowninfo.com /places/texas/austwell   (320 words)

  
 Austwell, Texas (TX) population and demographics data - Sperling's BestPlaces
As of 2005, Austwell's population is 187 people.
Compared to the rest of the country, Austwell's cost of living is 33.00 % lower than the U.S. average.
The unemployment rate in Austwell is 4.70 percent (U.S. avg.
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 Gulf of Mexico Foundation CRP Project #4007 - Long Lake Marsh Restoration
By agreement, the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department administers a state park on the north end of the island.
Approximately 90 percent of avian species traveling the Central Flyway congregate in the Texas Coastal Bend for the duration of winter, and include sandhill cranes, Canada and snow geese, teal, pintail, redheads, ruddy ducks, gadwalls, and many others.
This refuge is 38 miles long and is approximately six miles off the coast between Port O'Connor and Fulton Texas.
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 Austwell
Austwell, Texas, United States [City]; population was 189 in 1990; housing units was 115 in 1990; location is 28°23'N 96°51'W; land area is 0.36 square miles (233 acres); FIPS code is 5036 [SourceCBP]
Austwell, Texas, United States [Populated Place] is in Calhoun County; location is 28°23'24"N 96°50'31"W [SourceGSP]
Austwell, Texas, United States [Populated Place] is in Refugio County; location is 28°23'24"N 96°50'31"W [SourceGSP]
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 Texas Women on the Cattle Trails
Texas Women on the Cattle Trails tells the stories of sixteen women who drove cattle up the trail from Texas during the last half of the nineteenth century.
While on the staff of the Institute of Texan Cultures, she was also the supervising editor for five books on Texas ethnic groups, the Texans All series published by Texas A&M University Press.
The lives of these overlooked, durable, innovative, independent women show a panoramic view of the hazards and happiness of trail life along with their family, social, political, and business lives on the ranching frontier.
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Generations of Hope is a non-profit Christian adoption agency licensed by the State of Texas, providing permanent Christian adoptive families for children in need and counseling and support services for women throughout their pregnancy.
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 Austwell, TX Houses, Apartments, Cars, Mortgage Status, and Residents Info
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Median gross rent in Austwell, TX in 2000: $313
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 Wild Texas Parks: Aransas National Wildlife Refuge - Austwell, TX
Situated on the Texas Gulf coast along San Antonio Bay, the 70,504 acres of Aransas National Wildlife Refuge are host to an exotic array of wildlife, including alligators, javelina (collared peccary), snakes, bobcats and whooping cranes.
Aransas has a well-deserved reputation as one of the prime birding locales in Texas, as was in fact originally named Aransas Migratory Waterfowl Refuge.
Justin and I first visited the refuge at the height of a Texas drought.
www.wildtexas.com /parks/anwr.php   (802 words)

  
 Rare cranes flock to Texas
A record 216 endangered whooping cranes have arrived at their winter home on the Texas Gulf Coast, the largest number to winter in Texas for the last 100 years.
Stehn, who works at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge near Austwell, Texas, said he will conduct another census next week and he's hoping more of the big white birds have arrived by then.
This is the third consecutive year that the wild whooping crane population has shown an increase upon its return to the Aransas and Matagorda Island national wildlife refuges and adjacent areas.
www.bismarcktribune.com /articles/2004/12/03/news/local/nws02.txt   (908 words)

  
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 Journey North: Signs of Spring Everywhere Updates
Each spring the entire flock of wild whooping cranes takes the annual 2,700 mile journey from their wintering grounds in Texas to their nesting grounds in northern Canada.
Tom Stehn, Refuge Bilogist at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge in Austwell, Texas will provide updates this spring as the cranes begin their migration.
This is the pair people are most likely to see when they visit the whoopers' winter home in Texas.
www.learner.org /jnorth/www/critters/everywhere/826842103.html   (797 words)

  
 America's whooping cranes bounce back - Environment - MSNBC.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
A family of whooping cranes walk to the water's edge along the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway near the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge near Rockport, Texas.
AUSTWELL, Texas - Armed with a pencil and a clipboard full of detailed color aerial maps, wildlife biologist Tom Stehn climbs into a tiny Cessna aircraft to document the well-being of one of the rarest birds in North America.
Its white feathers contrast sharply with the lush green grasses and muddy brown waters of the Texas coast.
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 Austwell, TX TV Satellite Dish DIRECTV Television @ Rapid Satellite   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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 Season One - February Bird of the Month - Whooping Crane
Whooping cranes begin leaving the Texas coast in late March and early April, returning by late April to their nesting area in Wood Buffalo National Park, Northwest Territories, Canada.
Migrating as family groups, they set up territories of nearly a square mile in the coastal marsh and stalk through the shallows to feed on blue crabs, clams and occasional small fish.
Excerpts from The Birds of Texas by John L. Tveten with permission from Shearer Publishing, Inc., and from Endangered and Threatened Animals of Texas by Linda Campbell from Texas Parks and Wildlife Press.
www.passporttotexas.com /birds/feb.html   (624 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online: AUSTWELL, TX   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The population had dwindled to 300 in 1944.
The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this article.
The Handbook of Texas Online is a joint project of The General Libraries at the University of Texas at Austin (http://www.lib.utexas.edu) and the Texas State Historical Association (http://www.tsha.utexas.edu).
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 Journey North 1997/98:Fall's Journey South
First Whooping Cranes return to winter on the Texas Gulf Coast from their northern nesting grounds in Canada.
Over 150 Whooping Cranes are expected this fall, raising the population to a record level.
Millions of songbirds congregate on the Texas coast before embarking on southward migration to Mexico, Central, and South America.
www.learner.org /jnorth/fall1997   (322 words)

  
 Wild Texas: Great Texas Birding - Trip Report #4
As our last trip of the summer, Justin and I made a whirlwind visit to over a dozen sites on the Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail.
No birding or wildlife watching trip on the Texas coast is complete without a visit to Aransas NWR.
This time last year, Hog Lake was entirely dry due to the Texas drought.
www.wildtexas.com /travels/tr_04.php   (508 words)

  
 Gulf of Mexico Foundation CRP Project #3008 - Big Devil Bayou Culvert Repair
On eastern shore of St. Charles Bay within the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, Austwell, Texas.
Restore tidal flow to over 100 acres of brackish marsh that serves as productive feeding and nursery habitat for numerous estuarine dependent fish and wildlife species.
Educate students in the importance of conservation of natural resources along the Texas coast.
www.gulfmex.org /crp3008.html   (679 words)

  
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 Austwell, Texas (TX) Detailed Profile - relocation, real estate, travel, jobs, hotels, hospitals, schools, crime, news
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On 9/20/1967, a category 3 tornado 26.3 miles away from the city center injured 3 people and caused between $50,000 and $500,000 in damages.
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 USMSFP - U.S. Marine Shrimp Farming Program
Partly managed (45 ponds) by Harlingen Shrimp Farm, Ltd; farm managers Kieth Gregg, email: hsfbayview@compuserve.com and John Brauner.
Charlie Chan owner (farm on FM 2040 south and east of Austwell, Texas - P.O. Box 125 Austwell, TX 77950.
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 Shrimp Farms
Harlingen Shrimp Farms, Ltd. Located in Bayview, Texas.
Charlie Chan owner (farm on FM 2040 south and east of Austwell, Texas - formerly red drum farm of J.W. Bauers).
Source: Granvil D. Treece, Aquaculture Specialist, Texas AandM University, Sea Grant College Program, 2700 Earl Rudder Freeway, Suite 1800, College Station, Texas 77845.
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