Clear Lake City is a master-planned community located in southeast Harris County, Texas, within the Bay Area of Greater Houston.

[2] The community is adjacent to NASA's Johnson Space Center, as well as other major aerospace companies—including Boeing and Lockheed-Martin.

The community and its adjacent areas have a high concentration of engineers due to both NASA and the local petrochemical and biomedical industries.

The first substantial development on the land Clear Lake City now occupies was accomplished by James Marion West, who came to Texas from Mississippi as a boy in 1880.

[5] Clear Lake City was the former location of the Clear Lake City STOLport, a private airport constructed and owned by Houston Metro Airlines which was located on State Highway 3 just south of Ellington Field.

[6] This commuter airline operated up to 22 roundtrip flights every weekday in the mid-1970s between Clear Lake City (CLC) and Houston Intercontinental Airport (IAH) with de Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter STOL (short take off and landing) turboprop aircraft.

[citation needed] The Clear Lake City STOLport was subsequently abandoned and then demolished.

There is no trace of this pioneering airfield to be found at the present time, and the land has been developed for commercial and residential use.

[9] At the time, under a Texas law established in 1963, a city of more than 100,000 people could unilaterally annex an unincorporated area.

[16] The area was served from 1963 until sometime in the mid- to late-1990s by the Clear Lake City Volunteer Fire Department (CLCVFD).

The CLCCA funded the CLCVFD and the CLCWA provided the fire station and surrounding land.

In 1978, City of Houston officials contracted with the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center to open a fire station on the base.

[17] The city introduced plans to provide services for the Pipers Meadow area, which was annexed in 1994.

A new Houston fire station #94 serving Piper's Meadow, Sterling Knoll, and surrounding areas within the city was built in January 2005.

In the neighborhood of Timber Cove, the local pool was designed in the shape of the Mercury capsule.

[25] Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (METRO) operates the Bay Area Park and Ride.

[26] In addition Harris County Transit operates services going through Clear Lake City.

In 2013 the property was sold to former basketball player Hakeem Olajuwon's property management company, and for years it was a high-end men's clothing store called DR34M ("Dream", after Olajuwon's nickname and with a stylized "34" representing his jersey number).

It is located on Bay Area Blvd next to the University of Houston Clear Lake and the Armand Bayou Nature Center.

[37] The Clear Lake City Community Association, Inc. (CLCAA) operates the Kermet H. Applewhite Sports and Recreation Center at 16511 Diana Lane.