Gilchrist (Texas)

Gilchrist was an unincorporated village and a resort on the Texas State Route 87, about 27 km east of Bolivar Point in the Bolivar Peninsula in Galveston County, Texas.

In the censuses of 1990 and 2000, the place had a permanent population of about 750 people during the holiday season lived here far more people. As 13 September 2008 Hurricane Ike went across the peninsula, there were about a thousand permanent residents in the settlement, but was defeated Gilchrist evacuation arrangement.

History

The settlement was named after Gibb Gilchrist (1887-1972) of the railway line from High Iceland to Port Bolivar rebuilt after the devastating hurricane of 1915. Before that it was known as rollover.

1950 in Gilchrist, a post office was opened. A hallmark of the settlement is Rollover Pass, Bolivar Peninsula of both the shares and Gilchrist and serves the water exchange between the East Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. Among sports fishermen this place is popular. Rollover Pass was a natural passageway was closed until 1955. He was then made ​​by the Texas Game and Fish Commission in the context of nature conservation and to improve the living conditions of fish and wildlife in the bay again.

Hurricane Ike

On September 13, 2008 Gilchrist was devastated by Hurricane Ike, the building stock was almost completely destroyed except for a few houses. The coasts were ausgezahnt by coastal erosion in the area of Gilchrist. The storm surge caused by Ike has changed the appearance of the coastal section permanently.

Aerial views of the NOAA made ​​the almost complete destruction of Gilchrist recognizable. Overall, only a handful of houses survived the storm.