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Numbering plan areas and area codes of Texas with numbering plan area 281/346/713/832 highlighted. Area codes 713, 281, 832, 346 and 621 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) forming an overlay complex for Houston, Texas and its environs. 713 is one of the original four area codes established for Texas in 1947.
Pearland is a city located south of Houston in Brazoria County with a small portion in Harris County. Pearland is the fastest-growing city in Brazoria County – it has increased from about 19,000 to 39,000 residents in the 1990s alone (based on 2000 U.S. Census figures). It has since increased from 39,000 to 82,000 since 2000.
1600 Smith Street (previously named Continental Center I and also known as Cullen Center Plaza [4]) is a 51-story, 732-foot (223 m) office tower in Downtown Houston, Texas, United States. It served as the headquarters of Continental Airlines prior to its merger with United Airlines , [ 5 ] and at one point also served as the headquarters of ...
Silverlake is a planned community in unincorporated Brazoria County, Texas, United States, near Pearland and in Greater Houston. [1] The 1,000-acre (400 ha) community has 2,500 single-family houses and 230-acre (93 ha) of supporting commercial usage. [2]
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The Houston Heights, one of the earliest planned communities in Texas, is located 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of Downtown Houston.A National Geographic article says "stroll the area's broad, tree-canopied esplanades and side streets dotted with homes dating from the early 1900s and you may think you've landed in a small town."
Houston Community College Alief Campus, opened in 2007, is located along Westheimer in Westchase. [58] In 2017, the West Houston Institute, a STEM-focused facility, opened adjacent to HCC Alief. [59] American InterContinental University, a for-profit institution, operates its Houston campus in the district. [60]
It remains the only hospital in the Houston area to have a burn-treatment center. [8] The flagship Texas Medical Center hospital is home to Memorial Hermann Life Flight, an emergency and critical-care-transport aeromedical service. Founded in 1976, LifeFlight was the first aeromedical service in Texas, and second in the United States.