Texas Gulf Coast
“I must say as to what I have seen of Texas it is the garden spot of the world. The best land and the best prospects for health I ever saw, and I do believe it is a fortune to any man to come here.
There is a world of country here to settle.”
– Davy Crockett, Alamo defender, 1836
The Gulf Coast Region is a long, narrow slice of Texas along the Gulf of Mexico There are 624 miles of shoreline, running from the Rio Grande in the south to the Sabine Pass in the north. Among the Gulf Coast towns are historical Galveston, tropical South Padre Island, Port Isabel and Brownsville on the Mexican border to Beaumont on the Louisiana border. The countryside is a nearly level, slowly-drained plain. It is laced by streams and rivers flowing into the Gulf of Mexico. There are barrier islands along the coast, salt grass marshes around its bays and estuaries, a few remaining patches of tallgrass prairies, oak mottes scattered along the coast, and tall woodlands in the bottomlands. Soils on the Gulf Coast are acidic sands and sandy loams, and clay soils in the river bottoms…… Need More Text. Need Banner Image
May be pictures from the coast… boats ocean harbor
Size: 21,000 square miles