Located within the metropolitan area, the city is the seat and second-largest city of Galveston County in population.

The headquarters of The Galveston County Daily News

The Galveston County Daily News, founded in 1842, is the city's primary newspaper and the oldest continuously printed newspaper in Texas.

It currently serves as the newspaper of record for the city as well as Galveston County.

The city's Tax Collector is determined by the city council and is outsourced to Galveston County.

The library also serves as headquarters of the Galveston County Library System and its librarian also functions as the Galveston County Librarian.

Galveston County Justice Center

Galveston is the seat and second-largest city ( after League City, Texas ) of Galveston County in population.

The Galveston County Justice Center, which houses all the county's judicial functions as well as jail, is located on 59th street.

The Galveston County Administrative Courthouse, the seat of civil and administrative functions, is located near the city's downtown.

Galveston is within the County Precinct 1 ; Patrick Doyle serves as the Commissioner of Precinct 1.

The Galveston County Sheriff's Office operates its law enforcement headquarters and jail from the Justice Center.

The Galveston County Department of Parks and Senior Services operates the Galveston Community Center.

Interstate 45 has a southern terminus in Galveston and serves as a main artery to Galveston from mainland Galveston County and Houston.

Farm to Market Road 3005 ( locally called Seawall Boulevard ) connects Galveston to Brazoria County via the San Luis Pass-Vacek toll bridge.

Category: Populated places in Galveston County, Texas

* The Bolivar Peninsula in Galveston County, Texas was named in his honor.

The railroad reached Presidio County in 1882 when the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway laid tracks through its northeastern corner.

Ringing the Gulf Coast is the Gulf Coastal Plain which reaches from Southern Texas to the western Florida Panhandle. while the western portions of the Gulf Coast are made up of many barrier islands and peninsulas, including the Padre Island and Galveston Island located in the U. S. State of Texas.

John Sealy Hospital is a hospital that is a part of the University of Texas Medical Branch complex in Galveston, Texas, United States.

* 1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.

It is the third deadliest natural disaster in United States history, behind the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

Galveston () is a coastal city located on Galveston Island in the U. S. state of Texas.

Galveston is known for the hurricane that devastated the city in 1900.

Galveston is home to six historic districts containing one of the largest and historically significant collections of 19th-century buildings with over 60 structures listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

In recent times, the hit TV sitcom, The Big Bang Theory portrays one of its main characters, Dr. Sheldon Cooper as a man whose birthplace is Galveston, Texas.

The city of Galveston is situated on Galveston Island, a barrier island that is made up mostly of sand-sized particles and smaller amounts of finer mud sediments and larger gravel-sized sediments on the Texas Gulf coast near the mainland coast.

The island is oriented generally northeast-southwest, with the Gulf of Mexico on the east and south, West Bay on the west, and Galveston Bay on the north.

The western portion of Galveston is referred to as the " West End ".

Galveston is home to six historic districts with over 60 structures listed representing architectural significance in the National Register of Historic Places.

Today, " the Strand " is generally used to refer to the entire five-block business district between 20th and 25th streets in downtown Galveston, very close to the city's wharf.

Galveston is a popular tourist destination which in 2007 brought $ 808 million to the local economy and attracted 5. 4 million visitors.

The city's tourist attractions include the Galveston Schlitterbahn waterpark, Moody Gardens botanical park, the Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Rig & Museum, the Lone Star Flight Museum, Galveston Railroad Museum, a downtown neighborhood of historic buildings known as The Strand, many historical museums and mansions, and miles of beach front from the East End's Porretto Beach, Stewart Beach to the West End pocket parks. Also there is a pier-turned-amusement park that opened May 2012. it is called Galveston Island Historic Pleasure Pier.

The Galveston Ballet is a regional pre-professional ballet company and academy serving Galveston county.

The Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway was built through the county, passing through Sabinal and Uvalde City, in 1881.

* 1858 State legislature forms Menard County from Bexar County The county was named for Michel Branamour Menard, the founder of Galveston.

* 1874 The Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway is built through the eastern and northern part of the county.

Its county seat is Galveston.

The 1900 Galveston Hurricane devastated the county killing an estimated 6000 people on the island alone and numerous others in the rest of the county.

The island's entertainment business spread throughout the county with major casino districts in Kemah and Dickinson enabled by a lax attitude among law enforcement in the county ( Houstonians often humorously referred to the Galveston County line as the Maceo-Dickinson line ).

The county prospered as oil fueled Texas City's industrial growth and wealthy tourists flocked to Galveston and the other entertainment districts.

The south and southwestern parts of the county lie in the Galveston Bay Area on the shores of Trinity Bay and East Bay.

League City, is the largest city in the county surpassing Galveston between 2000 and 2005, and the northernmost city in the county, with parts of it extending into Harris County.