Clear Lake (region)

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Clear Lake is a region in parts of Harris and Galveston County in Texas.

The area also known as "Clear Lake" is made up of a few cities.

These include:

and parts of:

Clear Lake is named, of course, for Clear Lake, a brackish lake that empties into Galveston Bay.

National News:

  • Andrea Yates of Clear Lake City, Houston drowned her five children in a bathtub during the summer of 2001.
  • Clara Harris murdered her multi-millionaire husband, dentist David Harris, by running over him with her Mercedes-Benz at a Nassau Bay, Texas hotel after discovering he was having an affair.


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