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Baytown, Texas is located thirty miles east of downtown Houston in southeastern Harris and western Chambers counties. Rich with old time Texas, one of the first established ferry crossings at the San Jacinto River is still in operation today.
Baytown began near the home of Stephen F. Austin by the San Jacinto Bay, and included a small store and sawmill. The area remained undeveloped and inaccessible into the twentieth century. The only other entry into the area was by boat until 1908, after two unsuccessful drilling attempts, when an oil strike was made beside Tabbs Bay. In 1916 the Goose Creek oilfield became famous as the first offshore drilling operation in Texas (second in the nation) and the third-largest producing field.
The first community of Baytown never incorporated, and this enabled Pelly to annex the neighboring and unincorporated region of Baytown in December 1945. The citizens selected the name Baytown for their new combined city and thus created Baytown Texas on January 24, 1948 as we know it today.
It has been said that Baytown is open to industry, has reachable and accommodating officials, is on the rise and progressive, and is an first-rate place for people to live.
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