Scott Bay had a sawmill. The plants came later.
The Handbook of Texas puts Nathaniel Lynch at the San Jacinto ferry and William Scott on the bay that took his name. Oil refining, rubber, chemicals, and carbon black sit on the later row, in Harris and Chambers counties. The combined figure is 8.25 percent.
Baytown is in Chambers County and Harris County. The census counted 83,701 people. Combined sales tax on the Comptroller city file is 8.25%. City tax is 1.25%. No transit authority is listed. Special districts on the row, not one citywide stack. At 0.5%: Chambers Co Health Serv, Baytown Mun Dev Dist. At 0.125%: Baytown Fire Con Dist, Baytown Crm Con Dist. State tax 6.25% plus every named local piece is 8.75%, 0.5% above the combined 8.25%. Do not stack every name onto one ticket. County sales tax on the county file, not added on top of the combined city rate: Chambers none; Harris none. Business personal property rendition is due April 15 to the appraisal district for the county of the property (Chambers County or Harris County). Franchise (margin) tax report is due May 15. A no-tax-due threshold exists. Its dollar amount is not printed here. Texas has no personal income tax. The permit sets monthly, quarterly, or yearly sales-tax filing. Plant work uses the construction guide.
Nathaniel Lynch put a ferry where the San Jacinto meets Buffalo Bayou, and that crossing is still the one people mean when they say the old ferry. William Scott, one of the Old Three Hundred, took a grant that covered most of what became this municipality, and a store plus a sawmill near his house on San Jacinto Bay, also called Scott Bay, picked up the name Bay Town. Ashbel Smith later lived at the Evergreen plantation on Tabbs Bay. Mary Smith McCrory Jones, David G. Burnet, and Sam Houston spent time in the same district. Oil refining, rubber, chemical plants, and carbon black plants are the later industrial layer along Interstate 10 and State Highway 146, east of downtown Houston, where Harris and Chambers both appear on the city row.
A ferry receipt is not a refinery stores issue. Evergreen plantation paper, if any survived in a family file, is not a carbon-black vendor. Scott Bay is a place name, not a product. A crew you sent to a plant on the Harris side is a different dirt question from a building on the Chambers side. The health-services name, the fire-control name, the crime-control name, and the municipal-development name sit in the facts block. The development name is the one that must not be painted onto every plant ticket.
Houston, thirty miles west in the telling, does not lend its transit authority here. A face that says Houston belongs west of here. Tabbs Bay and the San Jacinto are water. The plants are the plants. The Lynch crossing is the ferry. Evergreen is the plantation. Scott is the grant. Bay Town is the old cluster around the sawmill.
Write ferry, sawmill, plantation, or plant on the face, then stop.
Plant crews use the construction guide.
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Other trades are on the industry list.
Book a time and send one ferry or bay paper and one plant ticket. No Baytown room is offered.
Sources: Handbook of Texas, Baytown (https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/baytown-tx).