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  2. Galveston Island State Park - Wikipedia

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    Galveston Island is a barrier island between Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. The island began to form around 5,000 years ago. It took another 3,000 years for the core to become high enough to withstand typical storm surges. [5] American Indians began to visit Galveston Island around 2,000 years ago. [5]

  3. Galveston Island - Wikipedia

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    Galveston Island (/ ˈ ɡ æ l v ɪ s t ən / GAL-vis-tən) is a barrier island on the Texas Gulf Coast in the United States, about 50 miles (80.5 km) southeast of Houston. The entire island, with the exception of Jamaica Beach , is within the city limits of the City of Galveston in Galveston County .

  4. Category:Landforms of Galveston County, Texas - Wikipedia

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    Galveston Island State Park This page was last edited on 18 August 2014, at 02:17 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...

  5. Category : Protected areas of Galveston County, Texas

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    Galveston Island State Park; N. North Deer Island (Texas) S. Seawolf Park; T. Texas City Prairie Preserve This page was last edited on 17 December 2016, at 01:49 ...

  6. National Register of Historic Places listings in Galveston ...

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    Location of Galveston County in Texas This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Galveston County, Texas . There are 10 districts, 73 individual properties, and four former properties listed on the National Register in the county.

  7. Texas State Highway 87 - Wikipedia

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    State Highway 87 (SH 87) runs for 249.4 miles (401.4 km) between Galveston, Texas (at a terminus shared with Interstate 45 and Spur 342) to U.S. Highway 59 and U.S. Highway 84 in Timpson, Texas. Highway 87 has a notable stretch between Sea Rim State Park and High Island, Texas that has been washed out repeatedly over the decades and has been ...

  8. Galveston Bay - Wikipedia

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    Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula are generally at the greatest risk. However, though the island and the peninsula provide some shielding, [42] [43] the bay shoreline still faces significant danger from storm surge. [44] Hurricane Ike, the most economically and environmentally destructive event on the bay since 1900, struck in 2008. [45]

  9. North Deer Island (Texas) - Wikipedia

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    North Deer Island is an island and wildlife sanctuary located in Hitchcock, Texas, in western Galveston Bay, about halfway between Galveston Island and Tiki Island in the U.S. state of Texas. The 144-acre (0.58 km 2) natural island is one of the few natural islands remaining in West Galveston Bay. [2]