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Bay City is the county seat and largest city of Matagorda County, Texas, at the junction of State Highways 35 and 60 on the Gulf Coast plain, about 90 miles southwest of Houston.

Despite its name, Bay City is not on a bay - it is named for its location on Bay Prairie, between the bottomlands of the Colorado River and Caney Creek, roughly 30 miles inland from the open Gulf of Mexico.

Bay City has one of the most unusual foundings in Texas: it was established in 1894 by the Bay City Town Company, and on September 18, 1894, Matagorda County voters chose it as their new county seat - before a single building had been erected in the town.

The promoters, led by Colorado mining millionaire David Swickheimer, won the county-seat vote by promising to build a new courthouse, and a small frame building that had served as a grand jury room in Matagorda was hauled overland to serve as Bay City's makeshift first courthouse.

Bay City incorporated in 1902, when it had about 2,000 inhabitants; oil was discovered in Matagorda County in 1904, and by 1914 the city had grown to about 3,156 residents.

Rice transformed the area around Bay City: the Bay City Rice Mills built its rice warehouse in 1901 and opened the town's first rice mill in 1902.

The Matagorda County Museum in Bay City displays a bronze cannon recovered in 1995 from the wreck of La Belle, the 17th-century ship of French explorer Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, found on the floor of Matagorda Bay.

Matagorda County, organized in 1836, was one of the original counties of the Republic of Texas, and its name comes from the Spanish for 'thick bush,' describing the dense canebrakes that once lined the coast.

In 2017 Bay City became home to a new $1.8 billion Tenaris seamless-pipe mill making drill pipe and casing for the oil-drilling industry.

Bay City had 18,061 residents in the 2020 census, up from 17,614 in 2010.