Editing Texas City, Texas (section)

==Economy==

The Texas City economy has long been based on [[heavy industry]], particularly shipping at the Port of Texas City, as well as [[oil refinery|petroleum]] and [[petrochemical]] refining.<ref name="Economic Development">{{Cite web|url=http://www.texas-city-tx.org/EconomicDevelopment.htm |title=Economic Development |publisher=City of Texas City |access-date=January 14, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100105021019/http://www.texas-city-tx.org/EconomicDevelopment.htm |archive-date=January 5, 2010 }}</ref> The Texas City Industrial Complex is a leading center of the [[petrochemical industry]]. Within this complex, the [[Galveston Bay Refinery]] operated by [[Marathon Petroleum|Marathon]] is the second-largest petroleum refinery in Texas and third-largest in the United States.<ref name="DOE refineries">{{Cite web|url=http://www.eia.doe.gov/neic/rankings/refineries.htm | title=U.S. Refineries* Operable Capacity | publisher=Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration |date=July 2008}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book| title=Risk Issues and Crisis Management in Public Relations: A Casebook of Best |author1=Regester, Michael |author2=Larkin, Judy | publisher=Kogan Page | year=2008 | page=[https://archive.org/details/riskissuescrisis0000rege_q1w0/page/83 83] | url=https://archive.org/details/riskissuescrisis0000rege_q1w0 | url-access=registration | isbn=978-0-7494-2393-3}}</ref> The Port of Texas City became the third-leading port in Texas by tonnage and ninth in the nation.<ref name="HOTO-Benham"/><ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.aapa-ports.org/files/Statistics/2004_US_PORT_CARGO_TONNAGE_RANKINGS.xls | title=U.S. Port Ranking by Cargo Volume 2004 | publisher=American Association of Port Authorities | year=2004 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100107091819/http://www.aapa-ports.org/files/Statistics/2004_US_PORT_CARGO_TONNAGE_RANKINGS.xls | archive-date=January 7, 2010 | df=mdy-all }}</ref> In recent decades, the city's planners have made efforts to diversify the economy into tourism, health care, and many other sectors.<ref name="Economic Development"/> As early as 1974, Texas City was placed on the top-ten list for the EPA superfund.  Outdated practices for the disposal of toxic waste have continued there for years.

The [[Port of Texas City]], operated by the Port of Texas City / [[Texas City Terminal Railway]], is the eighth-largest port in the United States and the third-largest in Texas, with waterborne tonnage exceeding 78 million net tons. The Texas City Terminal Railway Company provides an important land link to the port, handling over 25,000 carloads per year. The Port of Texas City's success as a privately owned port has been aided by its shareholders, the [[Union Pacific Railroad|Union Pacific]] and [[BNSF Railway|Burlington Northern Santa Fe]] railroads, whose connections allow for expeditious interchange of their traffic.

[[File:Wilkinson Supply in Texas City.jpg|thumb|Wilkinson Supply Company is Texas City, Texas]]

The Galveston County Juvenile Justice Department Jerry J. Esmond Juvenile Justice Center is in Texas City.<ref>{{cite web|last=Reynolds|first=Jennifer|url=https://www.galvnews.com/news/galveston-county-juvenile-detention-center-full-despite-lower-crime-rates/article_afc4e1bb-b805-576a-a0fa-b9bc3eee3c9f.html|title=Galveston County juvenile detention center full despite lower crime rates|newspaper=[[Galveston County Daily News]]|date=November 25, 2022|access-date=February 4, 2024}}</ref> Prisoners there attend the [[Dickinson Independent School District]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dickinsonisd.org/upload/page/0147/docs/13-14_Curriculum%20_Docs/CIPs/13_14_CNA_CIP_Esmond_Center_12-16.pdf|title=Esmond Juvenile Justice Center Residential School Comprehensive Needs Assessment for the Development of the Campus Improvement Plan 2013-14|publisher=[[Dickinson Independent School District]]|access-date=February 4, 2024}}</ref>

The [[Texas Department of Criminal Justice]] maintains the Young Medical Facility Complex for females in Texas City.<ref>"[http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/unitdirectory/gc.htm YOUNG MEDICAL FACILITY COMPLEX (GC)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080821225905/http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/unitdirectory/gc.htm |date=August 21, 2008}}." ''[[Texas Department of Criminal Justice]]''. Retrieved September 12, 2008.</ref><!--Note that even though the address says Dickisnon, the complex itself is within the limits of Texas City--> Young opened in 1996 as the Texas City Regional Medical Unit.<ref name="Prisonnames51">''Texas Department of Criminal Justice''. Turner Publishing Company, 2004. [https://books.google.com/books?id=VgTcF_VMt54C&q=Scott&pg=PA62 51]. {{ISBN|1-56311-964-1}}, {{ISBN|978-1-56311-964-4}}.</ref>

{{Wide image| File:Texas City petroleum refining & petrochemical manufacturing center.jpg|800px|Texas City petroleum refining & petrochemical manufacturing center}}