AQUACULTURE TIDEHAVEN HIGH SCHOOL NICHOLAS MEDINA MENDOZA MRS. SHELLEY ANDERSON EL MATON MATAGORDA COUNTY

Matagorda County crop prices and fishing prices fluctuate up and down with the economy.

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MATAGORDA COUNTY. Matagorda County (G-24) is in the Coastal Prairie region of Texas, bounded on the north by Wharton County, on the east by Brazoria County and the Gulf of Mexico, on the west by Calhoun and Jackson counties, and on the south by the Gulf of Mexico and Tres Palacios, Matagorda, and East Matagorda bays.

In 1930 only 7,452 acres in the county were planted in rice and only 24,000 acres were planted in cotton, a drop of almost 50 percent since 1920.

Railroad construction in Matagorda County during the early twentieth century had helped to encourage development by tying the area to national markets and encouraging immigration, which assisted in the development of aquatic business

Matagorda County is on the coast of Texas and was an original Texas County. Matagorda is Spanish for "thick brush" and was derived from the dense canebrakes which grew in the fertile prairie soil.