San Jacinto Monument
The San Jacinto Monument is a 567.31-foot-high column located on the Houston Ship Channel in unincorporated Harris County, Texas, about 16 miles due east of downtown Houston.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Tijuana Brass, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site and De Zavala Family Cemetery.
San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site
Park
Photo: Stvtron, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site includes the location of the Battle of San Jacinto. It is located off the Houston Ship Channel in unincorporated Harris County, Texas, near the city of Houston.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Channelview and Lynchburg.
Channelview
Town
Channelview is a census-designated place in the U.S. state of Texas on the east side of Houston in Harris County. Its population was 45,688 at the 2020 U.S. census. Channelview is situated 2½ miles northwest of San Jacinto Monument.
Lynchburg
Hamlet
Lynchburg is an unincorporated community in east central Harris County, Texas, United States. Lynchburg is situated 3 miles northeast of San Jacinto Monument.
East Houston
Rough-and-tumble East Houston is the city's beating, industrial heart - along with William P. Hobby Airport, you'll find the Houston Ship Channel and working-class neighborhoods in the shadow of the somewhat alien landscape of oil refineries that line the shores.
San Jacinto Monument
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: masonry column in Harris County, Texas, U.S
- Categories: monument, obelisk, building, tourism, and historic site
- Location: Harris County, Texas, United States, North America
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Latitude
29.74986° or 29° 44′ 60″ northLongitude
-95.08071° or 95° 4′ 51″ westElevation
20 feet (6 metres)Inception
1939Open location code
76X6PWX9+WPOpenStreetMap ID
way 257767763OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=monumentOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionGeoNames ID
4726394Wikidata ID
Q1111991
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Western Panjabi—“San Jacinto Monument” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “San Jacinto Monument”
- Chinese: “聖哈辛特紀念碑”
- Dutch: “San Jacinto Monument”
- French: “monument de San Jacinto”
- French: “Monument de San Jacinto”
- German: “San Jacinto Monument”
- Hebrew: “אנדרטת סן חסינטו”
- Italian: “San Jacinto Monument”
- Japanese: “サンジャシント戦跡記念碑”
- Persian: “یادبود سن جاسینتو”
- Portuguese: “Monumento de San Jacinto”
- Spanish: “Monumento de San Jacinto”
- Turkish: “San Jacinto Anıtı”
- Western Panjabi: “سان جاکنٹو مینار”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Lynchburg Landing and San Jacinto Point.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include DeZavalla Cemetery and San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “San Jacinto Monument”. Photo: Tijuana Brass, Public domain.