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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 ...
A post office opened in 1929. Highlands incorporated in 1930, but its charter was voided, leaving Highlands as unincorporated again. In the 1930s, Highlands had 20 businesses and its population decreased from 350 to 200. The 1936 Harris County highway map indicated two churches, a factory, a school, and a sawmill in Highlands.
Near Northside is a historic neighborhood located in Northside, Houston, Texas. [1] Near Northside is primarily occupied by people of Hispanic descent. [2]In a 70-year period until 2015 the community had been majority Hispanic after initially being made up of German American and Italian American immigrants who settled in the period 1900-1940.
Sharp donated a 300-foot-wide strip of land through the development to the state of Texas for construction of the Southwest Freeway (Interstate 69/U.S. Highway 59).This routing ensured easy access from Downtown Houston to homes in the neighborhood, as well as to PlazAmericas (formerly Sharpstown Mall and Sharpstown Center) (1961), Houston's first air-conditioned, enclosed shopping mall.
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."
Vanderbilt Square, a shopping center located in a nearby area in Houston, had been built by 1995. A Randall's Food Markets store and a Barnes & Noble bookshop anchor the center. [17] Cheryl P. Rose of the Houston Chronicle stated in 2013 that the proximities to Downtown and the TMC are "appealing" to residents who work in those areas. [46]
Briargrove is a neighborhood in Houston, Texas, United States, near Uptown Houston. Briargrove was established in the 1950s with one-story ranch homes built in the 1950s and 1960s. [1] Deed restrictions in the neighborhood were modified in 1986 to allow for 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story and two-story homes. Afterwards some of the older ranch homes were ...