League City, Texas, United States

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🇺🇸 League City is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, in Galveston County, within the Greater Houston metropolitan area. The city of League City has a small portion north of Clear Creek within Harris County zoned for residential and commercial uses. It is home to several waterside resorts, such as South Shore Harbor Resort and Conference Center and Waterford Harbor and Yacht Club Marina, popular with residents of nearby Houston. Between 2000 and 2005, League City surpassed Galveston as Galveston County's largest city.

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History League City was settled at the former site of a Karankawa Indian village. Three families, the Butlers, the Cowarts, and the Perkinses, are considered to be founding families of the city. The Winfield Family has also recently been acknowledged as a founding family by the City Government. The Cowart family settled on a creek now called Cowart's Creek after them (now often called "Coward's Creek"). The Perkins family built on a creek notably lined with magnolia trees and named it Magnolia Bayou. The Butler family settled inland. The Winfield Family purchased land in League City from the great nephew of Stephen F. Austin and moved there, to a place near what is now Hobbs Road.

The first resident of the town proper, George W. Butler, arrived from Louisiana in 1854 and settled at the junction of Clear Creek and Chigger Bayou. The area was known as Butler's Ranch or Clear Creek until J. C. League acquired the land from a man named Muldoon on his entering the priesthood. League laid out his townsite along the Galveston, Houston, and Henderson Railroad, already established in the area. This began a small feud over the name, as Butler was the postmaster. The name was changed several times, alternating between Clear Creek and the new League City. In the end, League City was chosen.

In 1907, League had two railroad flatcars of live oak trees left by the railroad tracks. These were for the residents to plant on their property. Butler and his son Milby supervised the planting of these trees, now known as the Butler Oaks. Many of them line Main Street to this day.

Starting in the early 1970s, the bodies of 30 murdered women were discovered in League City, and more have gone missing from the same area. This location has become known as the Texas Killing Fields.

In the 2000s, rising real estate costs in Galveston forced many families to move to other areas, including League City. This meant an influx of children out of Galveston ISD and into other school districts like Clear Creek ISD and Dickinson ISD.

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Geography League City is located 23 miles (37 km) south-east of Houston, and the same distance north-west of Galveston.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 53.0 square miles (137.3 km²), of which 51.3 square miles (132.8 km²) is land and 1.7 square miles (4.4 km²), or 3.22%, is water.

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Public library The Helen Hall Library, a member of the Galveston County Library System, is operated by the city and located at 100 West Walker Street. The League City Public Library was renamed after Hall in 1985. During that year a $2.5 million bond to expand the 7,000-square-foot (650 m²) library passed. The library received a two-story adult services wing and a renovation of the original structure, which housed the children's and audio-visual services sections; the projects were completed by 1988. As of 2008 Hall, with 29,000 square feet (2,700 m²) of space, is the largest and busiest unit of the Galveston County Library System.

Circa 2019 the library's history club began operations. It meets once per month. As of 2021, according to the librarian specialising in history, Caris Brown, the history club had a number of people going to meetings despite the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic in Texas.

In 2022 two League City city council members created a resolution which would have a board of 15 people decide whether content is obscene, and if so, prevent the library from having tax dollars to house said material ruled obscene.

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Parks and recreation The 38,000-square-foot (3,500 m²) Perry Family YMCA is located at 1701 League City Parkway. The branch, which cost US$10.7 million to build was named after Bob Perry, a homebuilder who donated $1 million. The North Galveston County YMCA began in 1993 and later moved into the Perry YMCA. John P. McGovern and his wife, Katherine, donated the 17-acre (69,000 m²) site used for the Perry YMCA.

Hometown Heroes Park is a public community park covering 28.71 acres that includes a recreation centre, basketball/volleyball courts, competition size swimming pool, and sports fields.

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Colleges and universities The Galveston County portion of Clear Creek ISD and Dickinson ISD (and therefore all parts of League City in Galveston County) are served by the College of the Mainland. The Harris County portion of Clear Creek ISD (and therefore the Harris County portion of League City) is served by San Jacinto College. It is also located within a few miles of the University of Houston Clear Lake.

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Transportation Houston Gulf Airport was located in eastern League City. The airport's land was sold and the land became a string of houses along Texas State Highway 96. The airport was once partially owned by the Bin Laden family with Salem Bin Laden holding interest in the airport at least until his death in 1988.

Commercial airline service for the area is operated from George Bush Intercontinental Airport and William P. Hobby Airport, which are located in Houston. League City in conjunction with Island Transit, Connect Transit, and UTMB, there is now a Park and Ride in the Victory Lakes subdivision.

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Health care In 2008 the University of Texas Medical Branch board of regents approved the creation of the 110,000-square-foot (10,000 m²) Specialty Care Center facility, located on 35 acres (140,000 m²) of land near Interstate 45, Farm to Market Road 646, and the Victory Lakes community.

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League City, Texas, United States 
<b>League City, Texas, United States</b>
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League City has a population of over 107,536 people. League City also forms part of the Greater Houston metropolitan area which has a population of over 6,997,384 people.

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