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Clear Lake City, Pasadena, Texas

Clear Lake City
Housing development
Harris County Courthouse Bay Area Annex
Harris County Courthouse Bay Area Annex
Clear Lake City is located in Texas
Clear Lake City
Clear Lake City
Location within the state of Texas
Coordinates: 29°33′18″N 95°6′54″W / 29.55500°N 95.11500°W / 29.55500; -95.11500Coordinates: 29°33′18″N 95°6′54″W / 29.55500°N 95.11500°W / 29.55500; -95.11500
Country United States
State Texas
County Harris
Elevation 20 ft (6 m)
Time zone Central (CST) (UTC-6)
 • Summer (DST) CDT (UTC-5)
Area code(s) 281, 713, 832
GNIS feature ID 1377174

Clear Lake City is a master-planned community located in southeast Harris County, Texas, within the Bay Area of Greater Houston. It is the second-largest master-planned community in Houston — behind Kingwood. The majority of the community lies in the corporate limits of Houston, while a northern portion is in the city limits of Pasadena and a small eastern portion within the city limits of Taylor Lake Village.

The community is adjacent to NASA's Johnson Space Center, as well as other major aerospace companies—including Boeing and Lockheed-Martin. The community and its adjacent areas have a high concentration of engineers due to both NASA and the local petrochemical and biomedical industries.

The first substantial development on the land Clear Lake City now occupies was accomplished by James Marion West, who came to Texas from Mississippi as a boy in 1880. West became a wealthy businessman with interests in ranching, lumber, and oil. His main ranch property and the site of his home was around the shores of Clear Lake and Clear Creek.


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