Gilchrist, Texas

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Gilchrist

Gilchrist, Texas (center right) on Bolivar Peninsula, southeast of Houston.

Gilchrist, Texas is an unincorporated residential community and beachfront resort along State Highway 87, located seventeen miles east of Bolivar Point in the Bolivar Peninsula census-designated place, in Galveston County, Texas, United States.^[1]

In 1990 and 2000, Gilchrist's core population was approximately 750,^[1] but would see more residents due to seasonal visitors.^[1] When the settlement was decimated by Hurricane Ike on September 13, 2008, about 1,000 permanent residents had lived there,^[2] but were under evacuation orders. Several businesses in the community had operated to furnish necessities for permanent residents as well as tourists.