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Bay City, Texas

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The city of Bay City is located in Matagorda County and is the county seat.

Bay City is near sea level<1>.

Time Zone: Bay City lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time.

Communities that are also named Bay City can be found in:

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 IllinoisWashington
 MarylandWisconsin
 Michigan 

At the time of the 2000 Census, Bay City had a population of 18,667 people<3> (or 49.19% of the total population of Matagorda County). The population of Bay City represented 0.09% of the total of Texas, making it the state's 117th most populous community.

From the Census Estimates for 2008, Bay City had a population of 17,891 people. This is a decrease of 4.16% since the 2000 Census.

The following table shows the recent changes in population. For the years after 2000, the population counts are estimated. More information can be found on the Census Page for Bay City.

YearPopulationChange
Since 2000
Year-to-Year Change
200817,891-4.16%+0.91% since 2007
200717,730-5.02%-0.75% since 2006
200617,864-4.3%-1.05% since 2005
200518,054-3.28% 
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200018,667The Last Census

The following is a sample of nearby communities:

 Community DirectionDistance<4>2008
Population
Change
Since 2000
 Blessing   SW17 mi [27.36 km]---
 Brazoria   E24 mi [38.62 km]2,9596.17% increase
 El Campo   NW23 mi [37.01 km]10,7731.57% decrease
 Lane City   N16 mi [25.75 km]---
 Markham   W6 mi [9.66 km]---
 Palacios   SW24 mi [38.62 km]5,0691.63% decrease

To learn more about neighboring communities and counties, please visit the Neighborhood Page for Bay City.

Website for Bay City

If you know of a local history or genealogy society for either Bay City or Matagorda County, would you please send us the URL for their website? We would like to add their link to our Gazetteer. To contact us, please visit our Feedback Page.


Official Website:   www.cityofbaycity.org/
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People are finding Google's 'Search-by-Location' to be a useful tool when planning visits to this area. We have prepared the following searches to help you find businesses, travel and vacation activities that are in (or close to) Bay City. It's likely that the search results won't include all of the businesses that are in this area, but the results should give you a good foundation for further searches.

For what it's worth: In addition to helping you submit your own search, clicking 'Other...' will frequently (but not always) show you some popular searches for this area.

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If you find an error or your business wasn't included in the results, please contact Google to help them resolve the issue (we simply link to 'Search-by-Location' and have no control over their results).



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Looking for more websites and/or information centered on Bay City? Please visit the Map Page for Bay City.


Footnotes

<1>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Bay City - it wil be higher in some places and lower in others.

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<2>We use the term 'historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable and we would like to be accurate. If you can provide us with more specific information about Bay City, please let us know so that we can make corrections.

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<3>Population counts have been provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. For more detail, please visit our Census Page for Bay City.

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<4>Our distances are calculated as a straight-line (or point-to-point) distance between Bay City and the indicated community. The distance should be treated as an estimate and not as the driving distance.

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<5>All Quarter-dollar coin images from the United States Mint.

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