Editing Tiki Island, Texas (section)

==History and government==
[[File:Tiki Island Texas City Hall.jpg|thumb|left|Tiki Island City Hall]]
[[File:Tiki_Island_TX_Police_and_Fire_Departments.jpg|thumb|left|Tiki Island police station & fire department]]
Tiki Island is largely man-made and was built in the 1960s, when developers dug canals and used the fill to elevate the land to between four and ten feet above sea level. At first, Tiki was primarily a small fishing camp, though it evolved into a place for weekend homes, then into a village that was incorporated on August 30, 1982.<ref name="testmayor"/> Its upscale homes sit mainly on the waterfront.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Ann|first=Patton|date=November 2008|title=Mitigation Best Practices|url=https://www.fema.gov/pdf/hazard/hurricane/2008/ike/tikiisland.pdf|journal=Best Practices|volume=November 2008|pages=2}}</ref>

Tiki Island has a full-time police department and [[volunteer fire department]].  Lacking its own post office, mail delivery is the responsibility of the nearby [[Galveston, Texas|Galveston]] post office.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hjv05|title=Village of Tiki Island, Texas|work=Texas State Historical Association: Handbook of Texas|author=Jasinski, Laurie}}</ref>
<ref>{{cite web|url=http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/|title=United States Postal Service zip code database|work=United States Postal Service}}</ref>
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[[File:TikiIslandMapTX.gif|thumb|Map of Tiki Island]]