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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 ...
There is also a new, 346 area code. Areas far north, west, east and south of the inner-city also use 936 and 409. Zip codes in Houston range from 77002 to 77099. A small portion of northeast Houston uses zip codes 77339 and 77345. Houston is the most populated city in the United States without zoning laws. City voters rejected creation of ...
Houston Chronicle columnist Joy Sewing, who was born and raised in Riverside Terrace, wrote, "Even the more affluent Riverside Terrace area, which was once considered the 'Jewish River Oaks' and loosely part of Third Ward, has never been given its respect. When Black professionals began moving into the area in the 1950s and '60s, white folks ...
On March 19, 1983, the numbering plan area was divided: the immediate Houston area retained 713, while the northern, eastern and western portions became area code 409. On November 2, 1996, area code 713 was split, with most of Houston's suburbs switching to 281. The dividing line roughly followed Beltway 8. Generally, most of Houston itself and ...
Parkway Villages is a 577-lot, [1] 224-acre (91 ha) subdivision in western Houston, Texas. [2] It is located north of Lakes of Parkway , the former Barnhardt land tract. [ 3 ] It was the first single family housing development by Sueba USA, [ 4 ] a subsidiary of Süba Freie Baugesellschaft .
Settegast is bounded to the south by the 610 Loop and the Beaumont Freeway, and to the west by a Union Pacific Railroad switching yard. [6]Rafael Longoria and Susan Rogers of the Rice Design Alliance said that Settegast could be described as "rurban", a word coined in 1918 to describe an area with a mix of urban and rural characteristics. [19]
Houston Fire Station #37 Braes Heights of the Houston Fire Department, at 7026 Stella Link, [25] is in Fire District 21. [26] The original Station 37, located on developer-donated land at 3828 Aberdeen Way, in a residential area, opened in 1955. [27] The current Station 37 building, on the new site, opened on September 24, 2009.