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Beaumont| City and port in southeastern Texas, USA, on the Neches River, 124 km/77 mi northeast of Houston; seat of Jefferson County; population (2000) 113,900. It is an oil-processing centre for the surrounding oilfields and a shipping point via the Sabine–Neches canal to the Gulf of Mexico; other industries include steel mills, shipbuilding, and paper production. Its port handles 15–20 million tonnes of cargo annually, mostly the shipment of petroleum products along the coast to the eastern seaboard of the USA. |
| Beaumont was first settled in the 1820s and incorporated as a city in 1881. In 1901, when a successful oil well was drilled at Spindletop Field, the modern oil industry began in the West. |
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