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Vidor (/ ˈ v aɪ d ər / VY-dər) is a city in western Orange County, Texas, United States. A city of Southeast Texas , it lies at the intersection of Interstate 10 and Farm to Market Road 105 , 6 miles (9.7 km) east of Beaumont .
The General Land Office's main role is to manage Texas's publicly owned lands, by negotiating and enforcing leases for the use of the land, and sometimes by making sales of public lands. Royalties and proceeds from land sales are added to the state's Permanent School Fund, which helps to fund public education within the state. [2]
Lakewood Village is located in the 26th Congressional district in Texas, which is represented in the United States House of Representatives by Michael C. Burgess. The Town is represented in District 12 of the Texas Senate by Tan Parker , and in the Texas House of Representatives District 106 by Jared Patterson .
Lakewood Yacht Club is a yacht club located in Seabrook, Texas, and is a member of the Gulf Yachting Association. The club sits on 38 acres of land, housing six sheds and seven docks. The facilities include over 250 covered slips for power boats and there are an additional 200+ open slips on fixed and floating piers.
The Beaumont–Port Arthur metropolitan statistical area is a three-county region in Southeast Texas. The metropolitan area shares borders with the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area to the west and the Lake Charles metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Louisiana to the east. The area is also known as the Golden Triangle
The Texas Veterans Land Board, also known as VLB, is part of the Texas General Land Office. Created by the Texas Legislature in 1946, the board was established to make land available to veterans returning from World War II. Today, the organization finances land, home loans and home improvement loans for Texas veterans and active military ...
On June 25, 1945, a section from US 62 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Meadow to the Lynn–Terry county line was added. On January 27, 1948, the sections were connected. On July 20, 1948, FM 211 was extended west to SH 51 (now US 385). On March 19, 1949, a section from the Garza–Lynn county line to US 84 was added, replacing FM 1068. On July 25 ...
In 1940 the Cow Bayou Swing Bridge was created, the bridge was the last major component constructed along Texas State Highway 87. The bridge is 806 feet long and has 2 lanes. [ 4 ] In 1963 Congress improved the bayou by constructing a channel 100 feet wide and thirteen feet deep for 7.7 miles from its mouth to Orangefield .