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Beaumont is the county seat of Jefferson County, sitting on the west bank of the Neches River along Interstate 10 about 85 miles east of Houston.

Beaumont was first settled in 1824 around the farm of Noah and Nancy Tevis.

On January 10, 1901, the Lucas Gusher at Spindletop blew in just south of Beaumont, shooting oil more than 100 feet into the air at roughly 100,000 barrels a day before it was capped nine days later - the discovery that launched the modern petroleum industry.

Beaumont's population more than tripled within months of the Spindletop strike, jumping from about 9,000 in January 1901 to roughly 30,000 by March as some 600 oil companies set up in the city.

Beaumont forms the 'Golden Triangle' industrial region of Southeast Texas together with Port Arthur and Orange.

Beaumont is home to Lamar University, which began in 1923 as South Park Junior College and is now a Carnegie doctoral research university with more than 14,000 students.

The Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum, a recreation of the oil-boom era town, sits on the Lamar University campus in Beaumont.

The 2020 census counted 115,282 people in Beaumont, down from 118,296 in 2010, and the Census Bureau's July 2025 estimate put the population at 112,967.

Beaumont has about 45,000 households, averaging 2.46 people per household.

About 55% of Beaumont's homes are owner-occupied, according to Census Bureau QuickFacts figures for 2020-2024.