| Bevil
Oaks is on
State Highway
105 six miles
west of
Beaumont in
northern
Jefferson
County. The
community was
named after
two
subdivisions,
Bevil Acres
and River
Oaks. The
residential
area of some
370 persons
was
incorporated
in July 1963
by a 60-0
vote. In 1970
the federal
census set the
population at
663. By 1980
that figure
had grown to
1,306. The
community's
economy
depends
largely on
that of
Beaumont and
the heavily
industrialized
Golden
Triangle
(Beaumont-Orange-Port
Arthur). In
1990 the
population was
1,350, and in
2000 it was
1,346.
Robert Wooster
-
Handbook of
Texas Online,
s.v. ","
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/BB/hjb6.html (accessed
March 3,
2008).
(NOTE: "s.v."
stands for sub
verbo, "under
the word.")
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