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    Bolivar Roads is a natural navigable strait fringed by Bolivar Peninsula and Galveston Island emerging as a landform on the Texas Gulf Coast. The natural...
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    Bolivar (/ˈbɒlɪvər/ BOL-i-vər) is an unincorporated community in northern Denton County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the...
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    Bolivar Peninsula (/ˈbɒlɪvər/ BOL-i-vər) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Galveston County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,417 at the...
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  • Peninsula, Texas Bolivar Lighthouse, Texas Bolivar Roads (Texas) Port Bolivar, Texas Bolivar, West Virginia Bolívar, Montevideo, a barrio Bolívar, Uruguay...
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  • Farm to Market Roads in Texas are owned and maintained by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). KML file (edit • help) Template:Attached KML/Farm...
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  • Farm to Market Roads in Texas are owned and maintained by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). Farm to Market Road 400 (FM 400) runs for 85...
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    Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. (/ˈsaɪmən ˈbɒlɪvər ˈbʌknər/ SY-mən BOL-i-vər BUK-nər; July 18, 1886 – June 18, 1945) was a lieutenant general in the United...
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    NORTH OF SH 124 ON BOLIVAR, Texas Department of Transportation https://ftp.dot.state.tx.us/pub/txdot-info/hou/bolivar-sh87.pdf "Bolivar Peninsula Beach &...
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  • Company of Texas, was chartered by C. J. and N. C. Jones on May 19, 1894. Its intent was to improve economic development by connecting Port Bolivar, on one...
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  • Farm to Market Roads in Texas are owned and maintained by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). A previous route numbered FM 2600 was designated...
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    City, Baytown, Texas City, Galveston, La Porte, Seabrook, and Anahuac. Galveston Bay has three outlets to the Gulf of Mexico: Bolivar Roads between Galveston...
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    Mount Bolivar, Oregon, a high point in Oregon Bolivar, Pennsylvania Bolivar, Tennessee Bolivar, Texas Bust of Simón Bolívar (Houston), Texas Bolivar Peninsula...
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    north-eastern tip of Galveston Island and the south-western tip of the Bolivar Peninsula. The dike, one of the area's most beloved and enduring landmarks...
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    which inundates many of the barrier islands off the Texas coast. Many structures on the Bolivar Peninsula are destroyed. Most notably, in Gilchrist all...
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    Two flood water sensors in Chambers County, Texas survived Ike's storm surge, while those on eastern Bolivar Peninsula were left inoperable during the hurricane...
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    coastal artillery batteries in Galveston and along the Bolivar Roads. In February 1897, the USS Texas (nicknamed Old Hoodoo), the first commissioned battleship...
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    inlets to the Gulf of Mexico: Bolivar Roads (the exit of the Houston Ship Channel) between Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula, San Luis Pass to...
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    Loop 108 is a 3.922-mile-long (6.312 km) state highway loop in Port Bolivar, Texas. Loop 108 begins at an intersection with SH 87 near Fort Travis Seashore...
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    of Texas maintained by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). The highway begins along the Gulf Coast near the northeast end of the Bolivar Peninsula...
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    Ike Dike (category Galveston County, Texas)
    several flood defense concepts for closing off the Bolivar Roads Inlet. On Monday August 4, 2014 Texas legislators lamented a disagreement on how to protect...
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    dredge an eight-foot channel in the bay from Bolivar Roads (at the east end of Galveston Island) to serve Texas City. In 1894, the channel was first used...
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    side of the island. The far north end of the island is separated from the Bolivar Peninsula by Galveston Harbor, the entrance to Galveston Bay and the Houston...
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    Farm to Market Road 156 (FM 156) is a farm-to-market road located in North Texas. FM 156 begins at an intersection with Bus. US 287 in Fort Worth, near...
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    Fort Crockett (category Buildings and structures in Galveston County, Texas)
    Travis" name was transferred across Bolivar Roads to a new fortification on Point Bolivar, the tip of the Bolivar Peninsula, which forms the east side...
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    in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 906,422, making it the seventh-most populous county in Texas. The county seat is...
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    Brazoria County (/brəˈzɔːriə/ brə-ZOR-ee-ə) is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, the population of the county was 372,031. The county...
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    Art, 216 North Bolivar Street Old Harrison County Courthouse, Whetstone Square Joe Weisman & Company (the first department store in Texas), 211 North Washington...
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    Baytown is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, within Harris and Chambers counties. Located in the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan statistical...
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    The Pan-American Highway is a network of roads stretching across the Americas, measuring about 30,000 kilometres (19,000 mi) in total length. Except for...
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    or Yarmouth Roads. Basque Roads, France Bolivar Roads, Galveston, Texas, US Roadstead of Brest, France Carrick Roads, England Castle Roads, Bermuda Cherbourg...
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