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Texas City disaster

1947 explosion
Event industrial_disaster Q925618
Texas City disaster

Facts

8 properties
Instance of
industrial disaster, industrial fire, maritime disaster[3][4]
Country
United States[2]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 29.378°, -94.891°
Has cause
explosion[6]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Texas[1]
Number of deaths
+581[7]
P14541
4Xnuvm[8]
Point in time
April 16, 1947[5]
🏷️ Also known as
en Texas City disaster en Texas City Explosion ar فاجعة مدينة تكساس de Texas-City-Explosion el Καταστροφή στο Τέξας Σίτυ (1947) es Desastre de Texas City fi Texas Cityn onnettomuus fr catastrophe de Texas City he אסון טקסס סיטי it disastro di Texas City ja テキサスシティ大災害 pl Katastrofa w Texas City ru Взрыв в Техас-Сити sv Katastrofen i Texas City tr Texas City faciası zh 德克萨斯城灾难 zh 德克萨斯城爆炸 zh-hant 德克薩斯城災難
🔖 Identifiers · 3
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID
53562
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
event/Texas-City-explosion-of-1947
Freebase ID
/m/01p8lc

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🔗 Connections
Country 1
United States
Has cause 1
explosion
Instance of 1
industrial disaster
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Texas
← Different from 1
Texas City Refinery explosion
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Texas United States

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  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [1] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [6] ↑ . local1259iaff.org. Retrieved . local1259iaff.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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  1. 17w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 4Xnuvm
    Point in time → +1947-04-16T00:00:00Z
    Instance of → industrial disaster, industrial fire, maritime disaster
    Number of deaths → {'amount': '+581'}
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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