Chambers County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 46,571. The county seat is Anahuac. Chambers County is one of the nine counties that comprise Greater Houston, the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan statistical area.
History
Mission Nuestra Señora de la Luz, a Spanish mission in Texas, was established in 1756 near what is now Wallisville.
Chambers County was founded in 1858. It is named for Thomas Jefferson Chambers, a major general in the Texas Revolution.
In 2019, Atlas Air Flight 3591, a cargo flight operating for Amazon Air, crashed in the Trinity Bay, in Chambers County and near Anahuac, while flying from Miami to Houston. All three people on board were killed.
Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which are land and (31%) are covered by water.
The south and southwestern parts of the county lie in the Galveston Bay Area on the shores of Trinity Bay and East Bay. A small portion of the southeastern area lies on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.
Adjacent counties
- Liberty County (north)
- Jefferson County (east)
- Galveston County (southwest)
- Harris County (west)
National protected areas
- Jocelyn Nungaray National Wildlife Refuge (formerly Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge)
- Moody National Wildlife Refuge
State and local protected areas
- Candy Cain Abshier Wildlife Management Area
- Turtle Bayou Nature Preserve
Communities
Cities
- Anahuac (county seat)
- Baytown (mostly in Harris County)
- Beach City
- Cove
- Mont Belvieu (small part in Liberty County)
- Old River-Winfree (small part in Liberty County)
Census-designated places
- Oak Island
- Stowell
- Winnie
Unincorporated communities
- Double Bayou
- Hankamer
- Monroe City
- Seabreeze
- Smith Point
- Turtle Bayou
- Wallisville