Alvin is a city in the U.S. state of Texas within the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land metropolitan Place and Brazoria County. As of the 2020 U.S. Census, the city population was 27,098. Alvin’s claim to fame is Baseball Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan, who moved later his relatives to the city in 1947 as an infant and lived there until he moved to Round Rock in 2003. The Nolan Ryan Museum is in the Nolan Ryan Foundation and Exhibit Center upon the campus of Alvin Community College.

The Alvin Place was granted in the mid-19th century gone bull ranches were standard in the area. The Santa Fe Railroad eventually expanded into the area, and a agreement was conventional along the railroad. Alvin was originally named “Morgan” by the town’s residents in tribute of the settlement’s native resident, Santa Fe employee Alvin Morgan; upon discovery that the declare Morgan had been taken, the town named itself after Morgan’s first name. The town was officially incorporated in 1893, making it the oldest incorporated concurrence in Brazoria County. Alvin Morgan expected a land ascend from the declare of Texas prior to 1891.

Alvin was a sundown town, where not quite no African Americans were allowed to live.

On July 25, 1979, Tropical Storm Claudette stalled over Alvin and inundated the region with 45 inches (1,140 mm) of rain in 42 hours. The sum included 43 inches (1,090 mm) in 24 hours, at the mature the highest amount of rainfall in 24 hours in American history.