Sell Your Car for Cash in Texas City, TX

Cash Offers for Texas City Car Sellers

A wrecked, flood-damaged, or simply worn-out car sitting in a Texas City driveway doesn't have to turn into a months-long project of online listings and no-show buyers. Call in, get a real cash number over the phone, and we'll tow the car away for free and pay you when we arrive — no repairs, no detailing, no waiting on a title company to sort out paperwork first.

Geography of Texas City

Texas City sits in Galveston County on the west shore of Galveston Bay, about 40 miles southeast of downtown Houston along Interstate 45 and State Highway 146 — the same corridor that carries refinery traffic and Houston Ship Channel commerce in and out of the peninsula. With a population estimated at roughly 60,000 and climbing (up from 51,898 at the 2020 Census), Texas City has grown steadily as both a residential bedroom community and one of the most concentrated industrial zones on the Gulf Coast.

Free towing is included anywhere in Texas City and the surrounding area. You can find more about local services on the City of Texas City's official website.

History of Texas City

Texas City was platted in the 1890s by a group of investors, including the Texas City Improvement Company under J.C. League and B.F. Yoakum, who dredged a deep-water channel into Galveston Bay and marketed the site as a planned industrial port city — hence the literal, no-frills name. The city's development accelerated after the 1900 Galveston hurricane pushed shipping and population interest toward the more sheltered mainland side of the bay, and by the 1910s Texas City had its own refineries and rail links feeding a growing deep-water port.

Culture of Texas City

Texas City's economy today is still built on heavy industry: the Marathon Petroleum Galveston Bay Refinery, formed by merging Marathon's original Texas City refinery with the neighboring Galveston Bay complex in 2018, has a crude processing capacity of roughly 631,000 barrels per day, making it one of the largest refineries in the country and a major local employer alongside other petrochemical plants along the ship channel. The Texas City-La Marque Chamber of Commerce region has continued to diversify with port, logistics, and healthcare jobs, but the refinery and chemical corridor remains the economic backbone of the city.

On April 16, 1947, the French-registered cargo ship SS Grandcamp caught fire and detonated roughly 2,300 tons of ammonium nitrate in the Texas City port, triggering a chain reaction of explosions and fires that killed at least 581 people, including nearly the entire volunteer fire department — it remains the deadliest industrial accident in U.S. history and one of the largest non-nuclear explosions ever recorded. The disaster reshaped national chemical-handling and shipping regulations and is still marked locally every April; it's a permanent part of how Texas City understands its own history alongside its ongoing role as a major refining hub.