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Southeast Houston is an area in Houston, Texas, United States. The Greater Southeast Management District (GSMD) manages a district using the name Southeast Houston. Communities within the district include the Third Ward , Texas Medical Center , Riverside Terrace , University Oaks , and Washington Terrace .
When Houston was established in 1837, the city's founders divided it into political geographic districts called "wards." The ward designation is the progenitor of the nine current-day Houston City Council districts. Much of the predominantly African American First Ward was demolished and renovated as part of a gentrification effort. Much of the ...
The city of Houston, Texas, contains many neighborhoods, ranging from planned communities to historic wards. There is no uniform standard for what constitutes an individual neighborhood within the city; however, the city of Houston does recognize a list of 88 super neighborhoods which encompass broadly recognized regions. According to the city ...
The land surface in and around the city of Houston is composed of alternating layers of red, gray, sandy brown, and black organic clay; these strata generally dip to the southeast at a slope of 0.06% (3 feet (0.91 m) of vertical change for every 1 mile (1.6 km) of distance traveled). [6]
Red Bluff Freeway - planned from State Highway 146 southeast of Houston to Beltway 8. Only frontage roads have been built. SH 99 Toll - Sections A, B, and C of the Grand Parkway are in various stages of the planning process. Spur 5 - south-southeast of downtown. The mainlanes planned to be built from its present terminus near University Drive ...
Seabrook is located on Galveston Bay at Clear Lake, southeast of Houston near Pasadena and La Porte. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 21.3 square miles (55.1 km 2 ), of which 5.3 square miles (13.8 km 2 ) is land and 15.9 square miles (41.3 km 2 ), or 74.97%, is water.
SH 225 is a freeway located in Greater Houston that links the southeast side of Houston with Pasadena, Deer Park, and La Porte. The freeway lanes begin just inside the I-610 inner beltway of Houston at Broadway Street and Lawndale Street. It heads east to an interchange with I-610 before continuing through the southeast side of Houston.
South Houston is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, within Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area and Harris County. The population was 16,153 at the 2020 census . [ 4 ] It is bordered by the cities of Houston and Pasadena , and geographically located southeast of Houston.