Beaumont is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Texas. It is the seat of presidency of Jefferson County, within the Beaumont–Port Arthur metropolitan statistical area, located in Southeast Texas on the Neches River just about 85 miles (137 km) east of Houston (city middle to city center). With a population of 115,282 at the 2020 census, Beaumont is the largest incorporated municipality by population close the Louisiana border. Its metropolitan area was the 10th largest in Texas in 2019, and 132nd in the United States.

The city of Beaumont was founded in 1838. The pioneer agreement had an economy based upon the take forward of lumber, farming, and harbor industries. In 1892, Joseph Eloi Broussard opened the first commercially thriving rice mill in Texas, stimulating improve of rice gardening in the area; he plus started an irrigation company (since 1933, established as the Lower Neches Valley Authority) to Keep rice culture. Rice became an important commodity crop in Texas and is now cultivated in 23 counties.

A big change occurred in 1901 considering the Spindletop gusher, which demonstrated that a big oil auditorium lay underneath and adjoining the city. With Spindletop, several excitement companies developed in Beaumont, and some remain. The Place rapidly developed as one of the country’s major petrochemical refining areas. Along subsequently Port Arthur and Orange, Beaumont forms the Golden Triangle, a major industrial Place on the Texas Gulf Coast.

Beaumont is house to Lamar University, a national Carnegie doctoral research university with on culmination of 14,000 students, including undergraduates and postgraduates. Over the years, several corporations have been based in this city, including Gulf States Utilities, which had its headquarters in Beaumont until its occupation by Entergy Corporation in 1994. GSU’s Edison Plaza headquarters remains the tallest building in Beaumont.