Beaumont is a city and
county seat of
Jefferson County,
Texas and is within the
Beaumont-Port Arthur metropolitan area. As of the 2000
U.S. Census, the city had a population of 113,866. With
Port Arthur and
Orange, it forms the
Golden Triangle, a major industrial area on the
Gulf Coast.
Lamar University is based in Beaumont. The city's daily newspaper is
The Beaumont Enterprise, while
The Examiner is published weekly.
Gulf States Utilities had its headquarters in Beaumont until its absorption by
Entergy Corporation in 1993. GSU's Edison Plaza headquarters is still the tallest building in Beaumont (
as of 2007). Since 1907, Beaumont has been home of the
South Texas State Fair. In 2004, the venue for the Fair changed to
Ford Park, a new, larger facility on the west end of Beaumont.
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