59 in most places.ĭemographics Historical population CensusĪs of the 2020 United States census, there were 31,047 people, 8,499 households, and 5,693 families residing in the county. Interstate 69W is currently under construction and will follow the current route of U.S.The Aransas River forms in Bee County, southwest of Beeville and north of Skidmore. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 880 square miles (2,300 km 2), of which 880 square miles (2,300 km 2) are land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km 2) (0.01%) is covered by water. Research suggests that Baptists and Methodists comprised 65 percent of all Texas congregations by 1870. Īs the constitution of the Republic of Texas no longer recognized the Catholic Church (or any church) as the state religion and slave-holding settlers came to dominate the area in the 1840s, small Methodist, Presbyterian and Baptist congregations began forming with sustained missionary support from these denominations. ĭuring the Anglo-American land speculation of the 1830s, the area's earliest settlers were mainly Irish immigrants, but by the late 1840s and early 1850s the rise of Jacksonian expansionism inspired Southern whites from the North and South Carolina, Louisiana and Mississippi to occupy and build settlements in the area. On December 8, 1857, the Texas Legislature formed Bee County from sections of Refugio, Live Oak, San Patricio, Goliad and Karnes counties, naming it for Colonel Barnard Elliot Bee who served the Republic of Texas as Sam Houston's Secretary of War and Mirabeau B. Bee, Sr., a secretary of state of the Republic of Texas. The county was founded December 8, 1857, and organized the next year. The Beeville, TX Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Bee County. Īs of the 2020 census, the population was 31,047. It is in South Texas and its county seat is Beeville. With a combined weekly audience of more than 1.6 million, Houston Public Media is committed to delivering content that expands minds and possibilities with trusted information.Bee County is a county located in the U.S. Houston Public Media combines broadcast and digital assets to serve residents of Southeast Texas with trusted local news and entertainment, as well as national programming from NPR and PBS. Houston Public Media is a service of the University of Houston and supported with financial gifts from the community. We are so proud of our Co-Champions along with all the students who participated this year and hope they use these skills in the near future and remember this experience for many years to come,” said Joshua Adams, Station Manager of Houston Public Media.įor more information on the Houston Public Media Spelling Bee, including speller rankings, visit
“In an ongoing effort to continue supporting our community of teachers, students and their families we are grateful for the opportunity to provide various learning materials that help improve their spelling while increasing their vocabularies. The bee finals will be broadcast live on ION Thursday, June 2. These co-champions advance to the 2022 Scripps National Spelling Bee, where they will face spellers from across the country for the national championship. Attending Creekside Park Junior High School as a 6 th grader, Ishika Varipilli’s winning word, Sward, means a portion of ground covered with grass. Kirstin Santos, a 6 th grader at the International Leadership of Texas-Katy Middle School, advanced with the winning word Kata which means a set combination of positions and movements performed as an exercise. These phenomenal spellers competed in the Houston Public Media Regional Tiebreaker Bee on Wednesday, March 24, and two Co-Champions emerged.
After nearly three hours of intense competition, four spellers remained.
66 exceptional spellers qualified for the round one online test and 19 top-scoring spellers advanced to the regional finals via Zoom.
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