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Lake Jackson is a city in Brazoria County, Texas within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown Metropolitan Area. As of the 2004 U.S. Census, the city population was 27,022.

Lake Jackson is named after an oxbow lake of the same name on the outskirts of town. The lake in turn was named after the family whose antebellum plantation house sat alongside the lake; only very minor ruins of the building can now be seen in a park at the site. It is also the birthplace of famous Tejano singer Selena.

Brazosport College is a public community college which was recently upgraded to offer a baccalaureate degree in certain technical fields.

Streets
The layout of the streets in Lake Jackson was the whimsical vision of Alden B. Dow, the city’s original planner. In order to keep Lake Jackson from simply being another boring company town, Dow designed an unusual plan for the streets:

All streets radiating from downtown end in the word “Way”. Among the streets are Center Way, Winding Way, and Parking Way. There is even an intersection of two streets named “This Way” and “That Way”.

To further add charm, Dow intentionally laid out the streets so that they seldom follow straight paths. The streets, even main thoroughfares, twist and wind so much that in many areas of town one can travel in any of the four compass directions and have the same commute time and distance to a destination across town.

Lake Jackson is located at 29.036837, -95.438339.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 51.3 km² (19.8 mi²). 49.3 km² (19.0 mi²) of it is land and 2.0 km² (0.8 mi²) of it (3.84%) is water.

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