About College of the Mainland

College of the Mainland (COM) is a public community moot in Texas City, Texas. Its name comes from its location on the “mainland” portion of Galveston County, Texas (the portion north of Galveston Island). The school’s sport teams are named the Fighting Ducks.

Texas City is a city in Galveston County in the U.S. state of Texas. Located upon the southwest shoreline of Galveston Bay, Texas City is a animate deepwater port upon Texas’ Gulf Coast, as with ease as a petroleum-refining and petrochemical-manufacturing center. The population was 50,094 in 2019, making it the third-largest city in Galveston County, behind League City and Galveston. It is a allocation of the Houston metropolitan area. The city is notable as the site of a major explosion in 1947 that demolished the harbor and much of the city.