Fresenius (Texas)
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Location in Texas
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| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Texas | ||
| County : | Hardin County | ||
| Coordinates : | 30 ° 23 ′ N , 94 ° 14 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) | ||
| Height : | 18 m | ||
| FIPS : | 48-27516 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1379802 | ||
Fresenius is a place in Hardin County in the US state of Texas in the United States .
location
The nearest major city is Beaumont in the south, approx. 42 kilometers away. The closest metropolis is Houston in the west, about 160 kilometers away . In the northwest is the Big Thicket National Preserve . Fresenius is on the railway line between Cleveland and Kirbyville . To the west of Silsbee , three kilometers away, there is a Fresenius Road.
history
With the construction of the railway line of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway , a demand stop was built at this point and named after the chief engineer of the railway company.
In 1900 an entrepreneur from nearby Silsbee built a sawmill and a lumberjack settlement at this breakpoint. Nine years later the sawmill was given up. As a result, the settlement was abandoned.
The United States Geological Survey classified the place as a residential area in 1979.
literature
- William Theo Block: East Texas Mill Towns & Ghost Towns: Hardin, Jasper, Liberty, Montgomery, Sabine, Shelby and Trinity Counties . Best of East Texas Publishers, 1995, ISBN 978-1-878096-35-7 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).