New Water Quality Report. This report provides an updated analysis of bacteriological water quality data for Orange Countyâs recreational waters and includes data on sewage spills and related ocean, harbor and bay water closures.
Houston County was the first new county created under the 9-year Republic of Texas on June 12, 1837. The original boundaries of Houston County also included all of present-day Anderson and Trinity Counties, and portions of present-day Henderson and Polk Counties.
AUSTIN COUNTY. Austin County, in southeastern Texas thirty-five miles west of Houston, is bordered on the north by Washington County, on the east by Waller and Fort Bend counties, on the south by Wharton County, and on the West by Colorado and Fayette counties.