The Texas Oil Boom

Notes

  1. Olson, James Stuart (2001). Encyclopedia of the industrial revolution in America. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-30830-7. p.238. 
  2. "Population of the 100 Largest Urban Places: 1900". U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved November 3, 2009. 
  3. "Population of the 100 Largest Urban Places: 1950". U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved November 2, 2009. "Population of the 100 Largest Urban Places: 1940". U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved November 2, 2009. 
  4. "Chapter Two: Galveston Bay" (PDF). Texas A&M University-Galveston: Galveston Bay Information Center (Galveston Bay Estuary Project). Archived from the original (PDF) on July 20, 2011. Retrieved September 8, 2009. ... it [Galveston Bay] is at the center of the state's petrochemical industry, with 30 percent of U.S. petroleum industry and nearly 50 percent of U.S. production of ethylene and propylene Occuring [sic] on its shores. Weisman (2008), p. 166, "The industrial megaplex that begins on the east side of Houston and continues uninterrupted to the Gulf of Mexico, 50 miles away, is the largest concentration of petroleum refineries, petrochemical companies, and storage structures on Earth."