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Galveston hurricane of 1900
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People walk through scattered debris and collapsed wooden houses, searching for belongings after the 1900 Galveston hurricane in Texas. Map showing the storm track of the Galveston hurricane of 1900, beginning as a tropical storm near Cuba, strengthening as it moves northwest across the Gulf of Mexico, making landfall at Galveston, Texas, and continuing northeast through the central United States before dissipating over the northern Atlantic. Key dates, hurricane categories, and wind speeds are marked along the path. Infographic bar graph comparing U.S. death tolls from major events, with COVID-19 at over 1.1 million deaths, the Civil War and 1918-19 flu pandemic each above 675,000, and smaller bars for wars, pandemics, and disasters such as World War II, the Vietnam War, and September 11.
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Galveston hurricane of 1900: References & Edit History

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Modified link of Web site: Texas State Historical Association - The Handbook of Texas Online - The Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900: A Historical Overview. Aug 07, 2026
Add new Web site: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - "One of those monstrosities of nature": The Galveston Storm of 1900. May 05, 2026
Article revised and updated. Jul 01, 2025
Add new Web site: Academia - Dangers from the sea: Considerations of the 1900 Galveston hurricane (PDF). Mar 07, 2025
Add new Web site: American Heritage - Galveston, September 8, 1900: When The Hurricane Struck. Jan 09, 2025
Add new Web site: US Lighthouse Society - The 1900 Galveston Hurricane. Sep 30, 2024
Add new Web site: Florida Institute of Technology - Research Labs and Institutes - The Great Galveston hurricane of 1900. Aug 06, 2024
Add new Web site: Galveston History Foundation - The 1900 Storm. Jun 28, 2024
Add new Web site: Galveston & Texas History Center - 1900 Storm. Dec 21, 2023
Add new Web site: HistoryNet - Blown Away: Galveston Hurricane, 1900. Oct 27, 2023
Link added. Sep 01, 2023
Add new Web site: NPR - The Tempest At Galveston: 'We Knew There Was A Storm Coming, But We Had No Idea'. Jul 21, 2023
Add new Web site: National Park Service - Galveston Hurricane of 1900. Nov 11, 2021
Media added. Nov 04, 2020
Updated the estimate of the number of people killed by the storm. Sep 17, 2020
Cross-references added. May 11, 2015
Map of the path of the Galveston hurricane of 1900 added. May 11, 2015
Add new Web site: The Weather Channel - Hurricane: The Galveston Hurricane of 1900. Jul 09, 2013
Add new Web site: NOAA - The Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900. Jul 09, 2013
Add new Web site: NOAA - The Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900. Jul 09, 2013
Add new Web site: The 1900 Storm - Galveston, Texas. Jul 09, 2013
Add new Web site: The 1900 Storm - Galveston, Texas. Jul 09, 2013
Add new Web site: The Weather Channel - Hurricane: The Galveston Hurricane of 1900. Jul 09, 2013
Add new Web site: Texas State Historical Association - The Handbook of Texas Online - The Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900: A Historical Overview. Aug 22, 2011
New article added. Dec 10, 2008
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