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Beaumont Beaumont is located some 15 miles northwest of Port Arthur on the Neches River, while Orange is about 18 miles northeast of Port Arthur on the Sabine River. The ports of Port Arthur, Beaumont, and Orange are located in the coastal section of extreme eastern Texas. No U.S. Government harbor facilities are maintained at the Port of Beaumont. www.globalsecurity.org /military/facility/beaumont.htm   (714 words)

Handbook of Texas Online: JEFFERSON COUNTY The Port Arthur ship canal, on the west shore of Sabine Lake, connects with the Neches and Sabine rivers to provide deepwater ports at Beaumont, Port Arthur, Nederland, and Port Neches. plantation at Port Neches on the west bank of the Neches twelve miles below Beaumont, and pottery shards have been found at Sabine Lake and in many places throughout the area. Interurban service from Nederland to Beaumont and Port Arthur in 1913 linked those communities, and by 1916 completion of the channel to Beaumont from Port Arthur and the mouth of the Neches had further increased lumber exports. www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/JJ/hcj5.html   (4033 words)

KBTV4.tv The Port of Beaumont and the Port of Port Arthur will not be involved with a United Arab Emirates company, nor will any United States port. Beaumont Police Officers in assistance with the Nederland Police Department arrested 52-year-old Daryl Wilson, the band director of Wilson Middle School in Nederland. The Beaumont Police Department announced the blood alcohol tests of a fatal accident involving an off-duty police officer Tuesday. www.kbtv4.tv   (717 words)

Port Arthur News A Port Arthur native, Meaux graduated from Thomas Jefferson High in 1983 and graduated from Lamar University in Beaumont in May of 1999 with a bachelor of science in interdisciplinary studies specializing in English. A native of Port Arthur, he grew up in Groves and is a 1973 graduate of Port Neches-Groves High School and Lamar University at Beaumont where he earned a bachelor of arts degree in English. Today, the Port Arthur News is a vital, working part of the city of Port Arthur and Mid- and South Jefferson County, Texas, with an average circulation of about 20,000. www.panews.com /about_us   (1988 words)

Port Arthur News BEAUMONT - Keith Axtel, a 32-year-old elevator inspector, died Wednesday after falling more than 10 stories down an elevator shaft in Beaumont, according to reports from Beaumont Police. Project Safe Neighborhood in Port Arthur is set to receive more money this week after the city accepted an additional $18,640 to create adult outreach classes for area residents during the city council meeting last week. Steve Powers, a 23-year veteran of the Amarillo Police Department and a specialist in gang activity, began a seminar on gangs Wednesday by showing the crowded all-adult audience graphic video of drive-by shootings and brutal gang murders alongside images of both the victims and the killers. www.panews.com   (324 words)

Port Arthur, Texas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Port Arthur is a town located in Jefferson County within the Beaumont–Port Arthur metropolitan area and is situated in East Texas. Port Arthur is located on the western bank of Sabine Lake. During the night and through early morning of September 24, 2005, Port Arthur took a huge hit from the high winds and rain of Hurricane Rita. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Port_Arthur,_Texas   (553 words)

Caught in the thick of it Conditions in Beaumont and Port Arthur, ground zero for some of the worst expected damage, began deteriorating after nightfall Friday — a prelude for what could be a 16-hour barrage of hurricane-force winds that began about midnight. Port Arthur officials spent two days evacuating every patient from three area hospitals, yanking the seats from borrowed school buses so they could squeeze in stretchers and beds. About 90 percent of residents evacuated, officials said, and at about noon, city officials and emergency workers abandoned Port Arthur as well, none of them sure what kind of city they would return to. www.statesman.com /metrostate/content/metro/stories/09/24texrita.html   (1512 words)

SI - readmsg.aspx msgid=21733891 In Jefferson County, which includes Beaumont and Port Arthur, Carl Griffith, the county judge, estimated that only 10 percent to 15 percent of the county's 250,000 residents had stayed behind, compared with 40 percent in previous evacuations. Parts of Beaumont were flooded and there were indications that water had been swept around Port Arthur's horseshoe-shape sea wall. In Beaumont, windows blew out of the ground floor of the Entergy building, which the county was using as a shelter and staging area for first responders, causing a drop in pressure throughout the building, downtown's tallest. www.siliconinvestor.com /readmsg.aspx?msgid=21733891   (1461 words)

Beaumont-Port Arthur Market Report: Retail The Port of Beaumont's administration building that opened in the mid-1990s was the last new construction project downtown. The comptroller's office paid the city of Beaumont more than $1.9 million in sales taxes it collected for February, up 4.18 percent from the more than $1.83 million it paid in the same period last year. In the first two months of the year, Port Arthur has drawn $88,274 more in sales taxes than in the first two months of 2004. recenter.tamu.edu /mreports/BeaumontPortA5.asp   (1461 words)

Port Arthur, Texas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Southeast Texas Regional Airport in Nederland serves Beaumont and Port Arthur. Port Arthur is a town located in Jefferson County within the Beaumont–Port Arthur metropolitan area and is situated in East Texas. Port Arthur is located on the western bank of Sabine Lake. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Port_Arthur,_Texas   (1461 words)

Port Arthur, Texas Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography Port Arthur is a town located in Jefferson County within the Beaumont–Port Arthur metropolitan area and is situated in East Texas. The Southeast Texas Regional Airport in Nederland serves Beaumont and Port Arthur. Port Arthur is located on the western bank of Sabine Lake. fredericksburgart.com /encyclopedia/Port_Arthur,_Texas   (703 words)

Beaumont News Texas Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn today said Jefferson County and the cities of Beaumont, Bevil Oaks, China, Groves, Nederland, Nome, Port Arthur and Port Neches, qualify for her unprecedented plan to... Beaumont's fire chief tells KFDM News the city manager suspended him beginning Monday of this week, and he won't return until Wednesday, November 22. Kiddie porn aficionados all over the country are under investigation after a 52-year-old Beaumont man pleads guilty to possessing images of child pornography. www.topix.net /city/beaumont-tx   (1149 words)

Avoyelles Family Name Origins Carmouche migrated as a locksmith from the port of Lorient, on the ship Gironde in 1720 to Mobile where he married and his son, Joseph Carmouche was born about 1742. The family departed France through the port of Le Harve, on the ship ìMegunticookî, arriving in New Orleans, LA on March 7, 1846. Her parents were Jean Baptiste Pourceau who was a native of Chambray, Hainaut, France, and his wife, Marie Therese Chalin, who was born at Avoyelles in 1722 and probably the first white child to be born in the area. www.geocities.com /BourbonStreet/1781   (7390 words)

Beaumont, Texas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Beaumont is a city and county seat of Jefferson County in U.S. state of Texas within the Beaumont—Port Arthur metropolitan area. Beaumont was a small center for cattle raisers and farmers in its early years, and, with an active riverport by the late 1800s, it became an important lumber and rice-milling town. Beaumont's lumber boom, which reached its peak in the late 1800s, was due in large part to the rebuilding and expansion of the railroads after the Civil War. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beaumont,_Texas   (1412 words)

Most Popular Names Directory. Daily updates. De beaumont - The Port of Beaumont is a leader in world commerce with top-notch facilities, expertise, and accessibility to major markets. Diplôme approfondi de langue française - DALF La commission nationale du DELF-DALF est membre de ALTE. A native of Crystal River, Florida and former Florida Gator, Darcel started his female impersonation career some www.99hosted.com /Starting7501.html   (6364 words)

Ruth Constant & Associates - Victoria, Texas Ruth Constant and Associates is the Administrative Support Office for home health agencies in Wichita Falls, Beaumont, & Port Arthur, Texas. Dr. Ruth (Chester) Constant founded Wichita Home Health Service, Inc. (May), Beaumont Home Health Service, Inc. (July) and Port Arthur Home Health Service, (July). Ruth Constant and Associates is located in Victoria, Texas and houses Dr. www.rchh.com   (6364 words)

Onroute Destinations - Beaumont and Port Arthur, Texas Beaumont is where Texas' oil history began on January 10, 1901, when the Lucas Gusher blew in at the Spindletop salt dome, a few miles south of town. I've become fascinated with the restorative and purifying powers of marshlands, and Beaumont is one of the few American cities to construct a wetland as part of their water purifying system. All of the big oil companies set up shop in Beaumont, and the state's petroleum industry was born. www.onroute.com /destinations/texas/beaumont.html   (784 words)

Beaumont --  Encyclopædia Britannica Both alone and in collaboration with Francis Beaumont and other writers, playwright John Fletcher produced some of the most successful comedies and tragedies staged in England in the early 17th century. The wealth of Beaumont, the largest city of the Sabine-Neches industrial area, is based on petroleum. The area's port facilities receive and ship millions of tons of cargo a year, most of it oil products. www.britannica.com /eb/article-9013998   (668 words)

Port of Beaumont, Texas Beaumont, Texas, U.S.A. Copyright © 1997 Port of Beaumont. Welcome to the Port of Beaumont, a leader in world commerce. Top-notch facilities, expertise and accessibility to major markets make us a strong choice to handle your cargo, whatever it may be. www.portofbeaumont.com   (76 words)

Beaumont, Texas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Beaumont is a city and county seat of Jefferson County, Texas and is within the Beaumont—Port Arthur metropolitan area. Beaumont was a small center for cattle raisers and farmers in its early years, and with an active riverport by the late 1800s, it became an important lumber and rice-milling town. Beaumont's lumber boom, which reached its peak in the late 1800s, was due in large part to the rebuilding and expansion of the railroads after the Civil War. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beaumont,_Texas   (1395 words)

Port of Beaumont, Texas Beaumont, Texas, U.S.A. Copyright © 1997 Port of Beaumont. Welcome to the Port of Beaumont, a leader in world commerce. Top-notch facilities, expertise and accessibility to major markets make us a strong choice to handle your cargo, whatever it may be. www.portofbeaumont.com   (1395 words)

Port of Beaumont - Welcome Aboard! Winter 1999 Beaumont, Texas, U.S.A. Welcome Aboard is a quarterly publication by the Port of Beaumont for the community of Southeast Texas. The Port of Beaumont has been selected by ABB Lummus Global, a construction company based in New Jersey and Houston, to import more than 150 pressure vessels of all sizes and dimensions that will be used in the construction of the world’s largest liquids steam cracker. She is active in civic and community affairs, serving on the board of directors of the Best Years Center, board of directors of Seniors in Beaumont, the advisory council of the Retired Senior Volunteer Program and Woman’s Club of Beaumont. www.portofbeaumont.com /news-welcomeaboardwi99.htm   (2234 words)

Port Arthur, Texas; Historic Port Arthur. Port Arthur became a port of entry in 1906 and two years later the canal was extended up the Neches River to Beaumont and Orange. He founded Port Stilwell in the state of Sinaloa, Mexico. To become a seaport, Port Arthur needed a canal, so in April 1897 the Port Arthur Channel and Dock Company began dredging a canal to the to deep water at Sabine Pass (completed in 1899). www.texasescapes.com /TexasGulfCoastTowns/Port-Arthur-Texas.htm   (671 words)

Port Neches - Groves ISD Online Port Neches City Park is the site of the Tugboat Island Playground and the Christmas on the Neches Festival held on the first Saturday each September. With the erection of refining and petrochemical plants in the area after the turn of the century, Grigsby’s bluff became Port Neches in 1901, according to state historical archive records in Austin.One of the first major plants built was by Central Asphalt and Refining. Golf: (one hour or less from Port Neches) PUBLIC COURSES: Bayou Din and Henry Homburg in Beaumont, Port Groves in Groves and Babe Zaharius in Port Arthur. www.pngisd.org /pages/portneches.htm   (949 words)

Handbook of Texas Online: PORT NECHES, TX Port Neches, once known as Grigsby's (or Grigsby) Bluff, is located in eastern Jefferson County on Farm roads 365 and 366 and State Highway 347, ten miles southeast of Beaumont. The Texas Company (later Texacoqv) purchased and remodeled the plant in 1906, bringing in the refineries and oil-related industries that would provide Port Nechesw ith much of its lifeblood, although in 1915 the town, with a population of 600, was still mainly dependent on the cultivation of rice and oranges. A 100,000-ton butadiene plant built by the federal government at Port Neches during World War II was sold to Goodrich-Gulf and Texas U.S. Chemical in 1955. www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/PP/hep8.html   (484 words)

The Beaumont Enterprise - News - 04/29/2005 - Grand jury indicts Port Arthur teen in assault The Beaumont Enterprise - News - 04/29/2005 - Grand jury indicts Port Arthur teen in assault www.southeasttexaslive.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=14441247&BRD=2287&PAG=461&dept_id=512588&rfi=6   (16 words)

Maritime Archaic Indian Site, Port au Choix, NF - Renouf & Bell Port au Choix comprises the Point Riche and Port au Choix Peninsulas, and together these project into the Gulf of St. Lawrence just south of the Strait of Belle Isle. The integration of the archaeology and sea level history was successfully applied at Port au Choix where the coastline was important for prehistoric settlement and where an understanding of Holocene sea level history was therefore crucial. Archaeology and sea level history were integrated to produce a detailed model of Maritime Archaic Indian settlement location, and subsequent testing of the model located this important site where predicted. www.nfmuseum.com /9717Re.htm   (16 words)

Beaumont, Texas (TX), pictures Beaumont, city in southeastern Texas and seat of Jefferson County. In 1901 the world's first great oil gusher came in at the Lucas well in the nearby Spindletop oil field, and Beaumont became an early center of the modern petroleum industry. The city is located at the head of navigation on the Neches River ship channel, near the Gulf of Mexico. www.greatestcities.com /North_America/USA/Texas_TX/Beaumont_city.html   (16 words)

Beaumont, Texas (TX), Pictures Deepening and widening of the Neches River between 1908 and 1930 contributed to Beaumont's importance as a port. Beaumont, city in southeastern Texas and seat of Jefferson County. Situated in a rice-growing and timber-producing region, Beaumont is heavily industrialized, with oil wells, petroleum refineries, petrochemical plants, steel mills, and shipyards. www.greatestcities.com /North_America/USA/Texas_TX/Beaumont_city.html   (302 words)

Personal injury lawyers - Beaumont, Texas Beaumont Maritime Vessel Disaster and Explosion Attorney - Ken Lewis is experienced in all areas of admiralty and maritime vessel disaster and explosion litigation. Beaumont Physical Injury Lawyer - If you have been physically injured as a result of someone else's negligent or intentional acts, you may be entitled to compensation. Orange, Port Arthur, Jasper, Lumberton, Silsbee, Kountze and other areas of Southeast Texas. www.bushlewis.com /litigation/site_map.html   (878 words)

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