Port Arthur

city in Jefferson County, Texas, United States

City City in the United States Q45400

Facts

18 properties

Identity

Instance of: city in the United States
Official website: www.portarthur.net, www.portarthurtx.gov^[11]^[12]
Official name: Port Arthur, Texas^[17]

Location

Country: United States^[4]
Coordinate location: 🗺️ 29.885°, -93.940°
Located in the administrative territorial entity: Jefferson County, Orange County^[2]^[3]

Population and size

Area: +373.406984, +373.064162^[20]^[21]
Elevation above sea level: +2^[19]
Population: 56k (54k–58k, n=3)^[13]^[14]^[15]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 57,755 · 53,818 · 56,039 GeoNames 55,340 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗

Codes

Local dialing code: 409^[10]
Postal code: 78k (78k–78k, n=4)^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]

More facts +7

Head of government: Thurman "Bill" Bartie^[5]
Located in the statistical territorial entity: Beaumont–Port Arthur metropolitan area^[24]
Number of households: +20599^[18]
Office held by the head of government: Mayor of Port Arthur, Texas^[16]
Per capita income: +20888^[25]
Territory overlaps: Port Arthur urban area^[23]
Water as percent of area: +46.6112^[22]

🏷️ Also known as

en Port Arthur en Port Arthur, Texas en Port Arthur, TX ar بورت أرثر ar بورت أرثر (تكساس) ar بورت أرثر، تكساس es Port Arthur (Texas) fa پورت آرتر fa پورت ارتر، تگزاس fr Port Arthur, Texas fr Port Arthur, TX he פורט ארתור ja ポート・アーサー ja ポートアーサー ko 포트아서 pt Porto Artur ru Порт-Артур zh 阿瑟港

🔖 Identifiers · 29

VIAF cluster ID: 57146153042805250580
Library of Congress Authorities ID: n81003789
GND ID: 16153412-0
Image (Wikimedia Commons): Port Scene..jpg ↗
ArchINFORM location ID: 36082
Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID: port-arthur-20
Curlie ID: Regional/North_America/United_States/Texas/Localities/P/Port_Arthur/
FIPS 55-3 (locations in the US): 48-58820
FactGrid item ID: Margaret Burbidge
Freebase ID: /m/013mzh
GNIS Feature ID: 1384151, 2411461
GeoNames ID: 4720039

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Google Maps Customer ID: 8557545847886879981
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID: port-arthur
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme): 0052212
ICPSR Geographic Names Thesaurus ID: 14680, 30819
J9U entity ID: 987007566723505171
Museum-digital place ID: 101575
MusicBrainz area ID: 5a9b37e6-927d-4674-852b-9f472408b47e
NL CR AUT ID: ge541517
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID: 3960658
OpenStreetMap relation ID: 113914
Quora topic ID: Port-Arthur-TX
Topic's main category: Category:Port Arthur, Texas
Tripadvisor ID: 56477
U.S. National Archives Identifier: 10042502
UN/LOCODE: USPOA
Who's on First ID: 101725143
Yale LUX ID: place/23eb7a82-7252-42aa-b46b-676207977f02

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People born here 30

Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Robert Rauschenberg, Evelyn Keyes, G. W. Bailey, The Big Bopper, Stephen Jackson, Tom Hicks, Amy Acuff +22 more

Located in the administrative territorial entity 2

Orange County, Jefferson County

People who died here 2

Walt Davis, Jim Hurtubise

Category of associated people 1

Category:People from Port Arthur, Texas

Contained subdivisions 1

The Port Arthur News

Country 1

United States

FactGrid item ID 1

Margaret Burbidge

Instance of 1

city in the United States

Located in time zone 1

Central Time Zone

Topic's main category 1

Category:Port Arthur, Texas

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Category:People from Port Arthur, Texas

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Category:Port Arthur, Texas

← Different from 1

Port Arthur

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UGK

← Place of publication 1

The Port Arthur News

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Summary

Port Arthur is a city in the United States^[1].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

[5] ↑ Port Arthur — head of government (P6): Thurman "Bill" Bartie. portarthurtx.gov. Retrieved 2024-04-16. portarthurtx.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[4] ↑ Port Arthur — country (P17): United States. wikidata.org.
[2] ↑ Port Arthur — located in the administrative territorial entity (P131): Jefferson County. wikidata.org.
[3] ↑ Port Arthur — located in the administrative territorial entity (P131): Orange County. wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ Port Arthur — postal code (P281): 77640. wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ Port Arthur — postal code (P281): 77641. wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ Port Arthur — postal code (P281): 77642. wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ Port Arthur — postal code (P281): 77643. wikidata.org.
[10] ↑ Port Arthur — local dialing code (P473): 409. wikidata.org.
[11] ↑ Port Arthur — official website (P856): http://www.portarthur.net/. wikidata.org.
[12] ↑ Port Arthur — official website (P856): https://www.portarthurtx.gov/. wikidata.org.
[13] ↑ Port Arthur — population (P1082): 57,755. wikidata.org.
[14] ↑ Port Arthur — population (P1082): 53,818. 2010 U.S. Gazetteer Files. Retrieved 2020-07-09. data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[15] ↑ Port Arthur — population (P1082): 56,039. 2020 United States Census. Retrieved 2022-01-01. data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[16] ↑ Port Arthur — office held by head of government (P1313): Mayor of Port Arthur, Texas. wikidata.org.
[17] ↑ Port Arthur — official name (P1448): Port Arthur, Texas. wikidata.org.
[18] ↑ Port Arthur — number of households (P1538): 20,599. 2016–2020 American Community Survey. Retrieved 2022-05-05. data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[19] ↑ Port Arthur — elevation above sea level (P2044): 2 m. wikidata.org.
[20] ↑ Port Arthur — area (P2046): 373.406984 km². 2016 U.S. Gazetteer Files. wikidata.org.
[21] ↑ Port Arthur — area (P2046): 373.064162 km². 2010 U.S. Gazetteer Files. Retrieved 2020-07-09. wikidata.org.
[22] ↑ Port Arthur — water as percent of area (P2927): 46.6112 percent. 2010 U.S. Gazetteer Files. Retrieved 2020-07-09. wikidata.org.
[23] ↑ Port Arthur — territory overlaps (P3179): Port Arthur urban area. 2023 U.S. Gazetteer Files. wikidata.org.
[24] ↑ Port Arthur — located in the statistical territorial entity (P8138): Beaumont–Port Arthur metropolitan area. wikidata.org.
[25] ↑ Port Arthur — per capita income (P10622): 20,888 US dollars. 2016–2020 American Community Survey. Retrieved 2022-04-15. data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

[1] ↑ Port Arthur is an instance of city in the United States (Q1093829) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Population → 57,755, 53,818, 56,039

Elevation above sea level → 2 metre

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Country → United States

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Port Arthur

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