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Almost all of Oak Forest is located in Houston City Council District C. [10] [11] A small portion is in council district A. [12] [11] The Houston Fire Department operates Station 13 Oak Forest at 2215 West 43rd Street; Station 13 is part of Fire District 31. [13] Houston Fire Station 13, 1976 Fire Station 13, 1950
The Subsistence Homesteads Division of the Interior Department, a program of the New Deal, developed Houston Gardens for the purpose of giving poor and landless people the opportunity to become homeowners. Houston Gardens was the only such community developed in Greater Houston. [1] The City of Houston annexed it in the 1940s. [2]
Garden City is a census-designated place (CDP) in and county seat of Glasscock County, Texas, United States. It lies near the center of the county, 27 miles (43 km) south of Big Spring , [ 2 ] and at the 2020 census had a population of 334. [ 1 ]
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The Houston Arboretum and Nature Center (155 acres) is a non-profit arboretum and nature center located in Memorial Park at 4501 Woodway Drive, Houston, Texas. It is open daily with free admission. [1] The arboretum was first conceived by Robert A. Vines, and in 1951 park land was set aside by the City Council for the Houston Botanical Society.
Armand Bayou Nature Center is an urban preserve located in Pasadena and southeast Houston between the Johnson Space Center and the Bayport Industrial District.The 2,500-acre (10 km 2) nature center is the largest urban wilderness preserve in the United States.
The Garden Villas Park, classified as a "Community Park" by the City of Houston, is located at 6720 South Haywood Drive. [25] Garden Villas Community Center, located on the same lot, has an outdoor basketball pavilion, a lighted sports field, a playground, a volleyball court, and a .49 mile hike and bicycle trail. [26]
A nonprofit in Pakistan has created two types of bamboo shelter that can be quickly constructed to house victims of earthquakes or floods.