Seabrook is known for its fish markets on Waterfront Drive where resident shrimpers and fishermen bring in their catches daily.

The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 demolished the local school, but by 1905 it was restored and was run by three teachers who taught 100 students.

The population of Seabrook rose from 200 to 560 before the Great Depression, but fell to 200 in 1936, and remained at 400 from 1940 until 1947, when the Albert and Ernest Fay shipyard opened.

With the opening of the bridge and the Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Seabrook's population rose to approximately 6,000.

Seabrook is located on Galveston Bay at Clear Lake, southeast of Houston near Pasadena and La Porte.

The greater Seabrook postal area also includes the incorporated cities, both small suburban subdivisions organized as municipalities, of El Lago, Texas, and Taylor Lake Village.

A historic downtown area was constructed in the early 20th century and it stands today, with many locals running their businesses.

Seabrook is host to the Texas Concours d'Elegance "Keels & Wheels" classic car and boat show held each year the first weekend in May at Lakewood Yacht Club.

The Seabrook Festival of the Arts is held annually on the grounds of Seabrook City Hall and Community House at First Street, where artists exhibit paintings, sculpture, textiles, jewelry, wood works, photography and musical performances by Texas musicians.

The festival is sponsored by the City of Seabrook in cooperation with the Art Consortium of the Texas Gulf Coast.

The goals of the Pelican Path Project have been to attract customers to frequent local businesses, encourage walking and recreation, and to promote the local ecotourism industry, tying in to both the brown and white pelicans that gathered along the banks of the bay and surrounding waterways.

[17] The only other site in the Clear Lake area on this Texas trail is the Armand Bayou Nature Center.

[24] All Seabrook residents are zoned to Clear Falls High School in League City.

[26] The portion of Clear Creek ISD in Harris County (and therefore Seabrook) is assigned to San Jacinto College.

[27] The Harris County Public Library Evelyn Meador Branch serves the community.

The original planning of the library started in 1985 when five Seabrook residents met Harris County Commissioner Jim Fonteno.

Equipment operated by SVFD includes: Harris County Youth Village, a juvenile detention facility, is located in Pasadena,[33] but has a Seabrook postal address.

Seabrook residents were left without power and running water for up to a month after Hurricane Ike made landfall.

A month after the hurricane, Seabrook was still dealing with people not being able to live in the conditions, even after the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) came.