Santa Fe (English: Holy Faith) is a city in Galveston County, Texas. It is named for the Santa Fe Railroad (now ration of BNSF Railway) which runs through the town next to State Highway 6. The population of Santa Fe at the 2010 census was 12,222.

In 1877, the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway was built through the western ration of Galveston county. By the incline of the century, three small, unincorporated towns had formed along the railway: Alta Loma, Arcadia and Algoa. The Santa Fe Independent School District, named after the railway, was established unexpectedly afterward to help the area.

In the mid-1970s, the adjacent to city of Hitchcock attempted to annex an Place in eastern Alta Loma known as the Morningview neighborhood. Amid intense enemy to becoming ration of Hitchcock, residents began a petitioning effort to incorporate the area into a further city. On January 21, 1978, a ballot proposal to incorporate Alta Loma and parts of Arcadia passed by a broad margin and the city of Santa Fe was born. Santa Fe has previously grown to include everything of Arcadia and parts of Algoa, and, ironically, is now twice the size of Hitchcock.

On February 14, 1981, the Ku Klux Klan hosted a fish fry on a private farm in Santa Fe to bustle the growing presence of Vietnamese shrimpers in the Gulf. During the event, a Vietnamese fishing ship was ceremonially burned. That controversy, as capably as thesame conflicts in nearby port towns once Rockport, led to a decision of the United States District Court, S.D. Texas, Houston Division Vietnamese Fishermen’s Association v. Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, and afterward served as the basis for the 1985 Ed Harris film Alamo Bay.