Beach City is a U.S. city in Chambers County, Texas, United States. The population was 3,221 at the 2020 census. It can now be considered as a part of Greater Houston.
Geography
Beach City is located in western Chambers County extending for along the northwestern shore of Trinity Bay. The city is southeast by east of Baytown.
According to the United States Census Bureau, Beach City has a total area of , all land. An election was held on May 21, 1966, to select the first municipal officers. Eloice Jordan was elected mayor. W.D. Bush, Alvin J. Crawley, William D. Daniel, J.R. Holland, and J.D. Nicholson were chosen as aldermen for the first city council. Gus Dauzat became the first city marshal. Later Ruth Hoover was appointed by the Council as city secretary and Claude Galloway as deputy marshal.
The mayors of the city have been (by date of election):
- Eloice Jordan – April 6, 1968
- Jimmy McClellan – April 7, 1970
- Herschel Scott – April 27, 1976
- Jim Ainsworth – May, 1982
- A.R. "Rusty" Senac – April, 1986
- James Standridge – May 26, 1992
- A.R. "Rusty" Senac – May 23, 2000
- Guido Persiani – May 25, 2004
- Billy Combs – May 8, 2010
The Beach City Volunteer Fire Department was formed in 1967 and still exists. A Tri-City Beach Emergency Medical service organization had been formed before the city's incorporation and has since been merged into a county-wide emergency medical service.
With Baytown's concurrence, Beach City increased its area on August 19, 1968, by annexing approximately near Point Barrow Road and taking in McCollum Park. The 1968 annexation moved the northern boundary of the city to Lawrence Road. This annexation brought into the city limits the historic home site of early pioneer Solomon Barrow (1801–1858), whose land included the area where McCollum Park is now located. The park, as a matter of record, contains the last resting place of Barrow, his wife Elizabeth Winfree, and Barton Clark, the first husband of their daughter Narcissa Ophelia Henrietta Jane Barrow. On October 27, 1970, again with Baytown's concurrence, Beach City annexed the area where the Beach City Community Building and the Beach City VFD fire station are located. That is the only part of the city limits that extends west of FM-2354.
Meanwhile, there were rumors that Baytown intended to annex the community of Cove. On September 22, 1970, Beach City received a petition of 84 residents of Cove to annex the community. The mayor of Beach City at the time was Jimmy McClellan. On November 24, 1970, Beach City annexed Cove, an area bounded generally on the west by FM-2354, on the east by the Old and Lost Rivers, on the south by Lawrence Road, and on the north by a line just north of FM-565. On December 2, 1970, Beach City extended its Cove annexation to include the property where the old Cove Community Building sits. This time Baytown did not concur. In 1971, Baytown sued Beach City in an attempt to stop the annexation of Cove. In 1973, Beach City released its claim to what are now the city limits of Cove. An incorporation election was held and the City of Cove was incorporated on May 23, 1973. Leroy Stevens was Cove's first mayor. The City Council of Beach City presented to Mayor Stevens Cove's first municipal seal, which is believed to be the one still in use.
Demographics
2020 census
As of the 2020 census, Beach City had a population of 3,221 people. The median age was 42.8 years. 23.1% of residents were under the age of 18 and 17.3% of residents were 65 years of age or older. For every 100 females there were 103.6 males, and for every 100 females age 18 and over there were 100.2 males age 18 and over.
There were 1,166 households in Beach City, of which 34.8% had children under the age of 18 living in them. Of all households, 68.0% were married-couple households, 12.8% were households with a male householder and no spouse or partner present, and 15.2% were households with a female householder and no spouse or partner present. About 15.7% of all households were made up of individuals and 8.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Racial composition as of the 2020 census
! Race !! Percent
|-
| White || 83.5%
|-
| Black or African American || 1.1%
|-
| American Indian and Alaska Native || 0.4%
|-
| Asian || 1.0%
|-
| Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander || 0%
|-
| Some other race || 4.2%
|-
| Two or more races || 9.7%
|-
| Hispanic or Latino (of any race) || 14.7%
|}
2000 census
As of the census
Zoned schools include (all in Mont Belvieu):
- Barbers Hill Kindergarten Center
- Barbers Hill Primary School
- Barbers Hill Elementary School
- Barbers Hill Intermediate School
- Barbers Hill Middle School
- Barbers Hill High School
A small southwestern part of the city (south of Seacrest Park Road) is zoned to Goose Creek Independent School District. (all in Baytown)
- Lorenzo de Zavala Elementary School
- Horace Mann Middle School
- Lee High School
Residents of Barbers Hill ISD and Goose Creek ISD (and therefore all of Beach City) are zoned to Lee College.
References
External links
- Beach City official website