Bay City, Matagorda County, Texas

Bay City, Texas – An Overview

Bay City, the county seat of Matagorda County, is an incorporated city at the junction of State Highways 35 and 60, in the north central portion of the county ninety miles southwest of Houston. The community is named for its location on Bay Prairie, between the richly productive bottomlands of the Colorado River and Caney Creek. It was established in 1894, when David Swickheimer, a Colorado mining millionaire and participant in a promotional organization called the Enterprise Land and Colonizing Company, formed the Bay City Town Company in partnership with G. M. Magill, N. M. Vogelsang, and Nicholas King. Planning that Bay City would one day supplant Matagorda as county seat, the men selected two cow pastures on Bay Prairie as the site for a new community. The company bought 320 acres from D. P. Moore and another 320 acres from the Mensing brothers of Galveston. One square mile was given to the townsite, on which the promoters laid out wide, regular streets. Elliott's Ferry (see elliott, texas), two miles away, provided transportation across the Colorado River.

In 1901 the Cane Belt Railroad reached Bay City, the first of several lines to serve the town. In 1902 the city, with about 2,000 inhabitants, incorporated, but it failed to replace its plank roads with streets until some time later. Also in 1902 the New York, Texas and Mexican Railway came into Bay City. Oil was discovered in the county in 1904, and that year the St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway arrived. By 1914 Bay City, with 3,156 residents, was a thriving community at the center of the largest rice-producing area in the nation and was served by three railroads: the St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico, the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio, and the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe.

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Quick Facts about Bay City, Texas

Geographic Coordinates	28°58′51″N 95°57′52″W
County	Matagorda County, Texas
Incorporated in the year	Year 1902
Area	8.5 square miles, of which, 8.5 square miles of it is land and 0.12% is water
Elevation	52 feet
Standard Zip Code	77404, 77414
Time Zone	Central Standard Time (6 hours behind GMT)
Climate	Warmest month - August (91.70o F – Avg. Max. Temp)Coldest month - January (42.90o F – Avg. Min. Temp)Annual average precipitation - 57.32”