Editing Chambers County, Texas (section)

==History==
Mission Nuestra Señora de la Luz, a [[Spanish missions in Texas|Spanish mission in Texas]], was established in 1756 near what is now [[Wallisville, Texas|Wallisville]].<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rlxFHFdF3_gC&q=Arp%2C+Texas&pg=PT566 | title=Texas Almanac 2012–2013 | publisher=Texas A&M University Press | date=November 8, 2011 | access-date=November 17, 2013 | author=Alvarez, Elizabeth Cruce | pages=Contents| isbn=9780876112571 }}</ref>

Chambers County was founded in 1858. It is named for Thomas Jefferson Chambers,<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Govt. Print. Off. | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n73 74]}}</ref> a major general in the Texas Revolution.

In 2019, [[Atlas Air Flight 3591]], a cargo flight operating for [[Amazon Air]], crashed in the [[Trinity Bay (Texas)|Trinity Bay]], in Chambers County and near Anahuac, while flying from Miami to Houston. All three people on board were killed.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://abc13.com/witnesses-recall-moments-before-cargo-plane-crash/5153812/abc13.com/5153229/|title=Human remains found after Atlas Air cargo plane crashes in Chambers Co. |publisher=[[KTRK-TV]]|date=February 23, 2019|access-date=February 28, 2019}}</ref>