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Beauxart Gardens is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in eastern Jefferson County, about six miles southeast of downtown Beaumont.

Beauxart Gardens began as a federal subsistence homestead colony: the U.S. government developed it during the Great Depression as a New Deal resettlement community for struggling families.

The community's name is a blend of its two neighboring cities — 'Beaux' from Beaumont and 'Art' from Port Arthur.

The town plat was filed in 1934 and approved by the federal Resettlement Administration in 1935; the 205-acre tract was settled by 50 families, each receiving a house of three to six rooms plus 3.5 acres of land to cultivate.

Before the colony was built, the land had been used for intensive rice farming by residents of nearby Nederland and Viterbo; many homesteaders later combined part-time refinery work with farming on the government truck farm.

A voting precinct was established at Beauxart Gardens on August 10, 1942, formalizing the young community's civic life.

Beauxart Gardens was first listed as a census-designated place in the 2020 census, which counted 1,064 residents.

At the 2020 census about 80% of Beauxart Gardens residents were non-Hispanic White and about 13% were Hispanic or Latino.

The community lies just west of the regional airport serving Beaumont and Port Arthur, and most of it is zoned to the Nederland Independent School District, with a portion extending into the Port Arthur Independent School District.