 Official Port O'Connor Chamber of Commerce Seal Port O'Connor, Texas is the "Best Kept Secret on the Texas Gulf Coast." A real jewel between Galveston and Corpus Christi off of highway 185 sporting the finest sportfishing, birding and gulf fun and activities. Port O'Connor is an unincorporated village of 1,184 permanent residents (last recorded in 1990), and is located in Calhoun County. Image File history File links POCLogo. ...
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The Strand The City of Galveston is the county seat of Galveston County located along the Gulf Coast region in the U.S. state of Texas within the Greater Houston area. ...
Corpus Christi skyline from harbor. ...
Location in the state of Texas Formed 1846 Seat Port Lavaca Area - Total - Water 2,673 km² (1,032 mi²) 1,346 km² (520 mi²) 50. ...
The primary industry of Port O'Connor is sportfishing and tourism, with shrimping very close behind. The area is renowned for bay, off-shore and wade fishing, with redfish, trout, and flounder among the most common catches. Sports enthusiasts also come to Port O'Connor to hunt duck, geese and alligator. Binomial name Micropterus punctulatus (Rafinesque, 1819) The spotted bass (Micropterus punctulatus) is a species of freshwater fish in the sunfish family (Centrarchidae) of order Perciformes. ...
Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) Biwa trout (Oncorhynchus masou subsp) Trout is the common name given to a number of species of freshwater fishes belonging to the salmon family, Salmonidae. ...
Winter flounder Flounder are flatfish that inhabit ocean waters in Northern European waters and along the east coast of the United States and Canada. ...
Subfamilies Dendrocygninae Oxyurinae Anatinae Merginae Duck is the common name for a number of species in the Anatidae bird family. ...
Other uses: Goose (disambiguation) Genera Anser Branta Chen Cereopsis † see also: Swan, Duck Anatidae Goose (plural geese) is the general English name for a considerable number of birds, belonging to the family Anatidae. ...
Species Alligator mississippiensis Alligator sinensis An alligator is a crocodile in the genus Alligator of the family Alligatoridae. ...
Just off the shore of Port O'Connor lies one of the most pristine natural habitats: Matagorda Island. Once an army air base, the island is now a National Preserve and home to a wide variety of endangered migratory birds. Visitors come from all over the country to observe these rare and beautiful species. Matagorda Island is a 38-mile-long barrier island on the Texas Gulf coast, about seven miles south of Port OConnor. ...
The weather in Port O'Connor is warm to hot in the summers, with winters cool to icy. Humidity is rather high, and the area has been host to hurricane landings in the past 100 years.
Due to its small population the town only has one school, Port O'Connor Elementary, whose mascot is the dolphin. It covers Kindergarden through grade six. Children are then bussed to the nearby town of Port Lavaca to finish their seventh through twelveth grade educations. Also due to its small size, all postal mail is sent to the general post office which has no door-to-door delivery service. Genera See article below. ...
Port Lavaca is a city located in Calhoun County, Texas. ...
History
Port O'Connor was laid out in the late 19th century as a fishing settlement called Alligator Head. As it grew in popularity with both permanent residents and tourists, the community took on more municipal like characteristics, earning the formal designation finally in 1912 as the town site of Port O'Connor. It was named after its main land owner at the time who was Thomas M. O'Connor who owned 70,000 acres.
Its initial population growth spanned the ten years from 1909 to 1919. Excursion trains used to run on weekends to Port O'Connor and an estimated 10,000 tourists came every summer.
Four times in the history of Port O'Connor it has been struck by hurricanes. The hurricane of 1919 brought the "good old days" to a halt, destroying the town. It rebuilt slowly but the 1942 and 1945 hurricanes so close in time were hard to overcome. In 1961 Port O'Connor was in the midst of another growth boom due to the increase of military personnel on nearby Matagorda Island Air Force Base. That same year Hurricane Carla destroyed the town again; but times reflect its will to survive, fueled by tourism, commercial fisheries and the petrochemical industry.
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