Beaumont

Also known as Beaumont, Texas, Beaumont, TX

city and county seat of Jefferson County, State of Texas, United States

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Beaumont is a city in Texas that serves as the county seat of Jefferson County. It functions as the main administrative center for the county and is an important population and economic hub in that region of Southeast Texas.

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Official name: Beaumont
Population: 115282
Area: 222.306289
Elevation: 5
Official website: www.beaumonttexas.gov
Image: BeaumontTX.JPG
Households: 46935
Dialing code: 409

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Commons category: Beaumont, Texas
postal code: 77726
inception: 1835-00-00
native label: Beaumont
P8168: Devon
water as percent of area: 3.533
per capita income: 28466
P12749: Iasmin Latovlevici

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Beaumont is a city in the U.S. state of Texas. It is the county seat of Jefferson County, within the Beaumont–Port Arthur metropolitan area, located in Southeast Texas on the Neches River about 85 miles (137 km) east of Houston (city center to city center). With a population of 115,282 at the 2020 census, Its metropolitan area was the 10th largest in Texas in 2020, and 130th in the United States.

The city of Beaumont was founded in 1838. The pioneer settlement had an economy based on the development of lumber, farming, and port industries. In 1892, Joseph Eloi Broussard opened the first commercially successful rice mill in Texas, stimulating development of rice farming in the area; he also started an irrigation company (since 1933, established as the Lower Neches Valley Authority) to support rice culture. Rice became an important commodity crop in Texas and is now cultivated in 23 counties.