Seabrook is part of the
Houston, Texas metropolitan area, on Hwy 146 twenty-five miles from
Houston near the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center on the north side of Galveston Bay in
Harris County.
Seabrook was incorporated on October 23, 1961. Despite considerable damage from Hurricane Carla, a bridge linking Seabrook and Kemah was completed in 1961, and by 1968 the population numbered 6,000. A youth center named for astronaut Edward H. White II, America's first space walker, opened in 1971. Residents complained of pollution problems and fish kills in local waters in 1972. The population reached a high of 8,242 in 1974, and businesses reached a maximum of 236 in 1989. In 1990 Seabrook had a population of 6,685 and 127 businesses.
It is a resort, fishing camp, and shrimp-fishing town.
