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South Park is a broad post-World War II development in the south-central area of Houston, Texas, a few miles south of MacGregor Park and directly south of the 610 Loop. According to the 2000 Census, the community has a population of 22,282. 81% of the South Park population is African American , compared to 25% for the city as a whole.
Pahaska Tepee- From Lakota “White Mountain Tepee”. Situated 2 miles east of Yellowstone National Park . Popo Agie River – From the Absalooke or Crow Language Poppootcháashe, which means "Plopping River" for the sound the water makes when it comes out of the sinkhole in Sinks Canyon, near present Lander, Wyoming.
White City is situated near Cedar Lake. It was settled in 1939, after voters passed the sale of alcohol. A post office operated from 1940 or 1941, to the 1950s. Oilfields supported the town during the 1930s. From the 1940s, the town declined, being abandoned by the 1950s. [2] [3]
A law proposed in Texas allowed testing. [100] [101] In June 2015, Waymo announced that their vehicles had driven over 1,000,000 mi (1,600,000 km) and that in the process they had encountered 200,000 stop signs, 600,000 traffic lights, and 180 million other vehicles. [102] Prototype vehicles were driving in Mountain View. [103]
Other major area parks include Harris County Clear Lake and Bay Area parks, Clear Creek Nature Park (League City) and Challenger 7 Memorial Park (Webster). Space Center Houston is the tourist arm of the Johnson Space Center and one of the most visited tourist attractions in Texas. [43]
Dell City was established in 1948, [8] as an aquifer had been found in the area. Settlers came from other areas of Texas and New Mexico. [9] It developed into being a farming town. The community had about 500 people in the 1950s. [10] In 2012, Jeanne Catsoulis of The New York Times described Dell City as "a borderline ghost town". [11]
Map of the White Mountains, Franklin Leavitt, 1871. Some of the earliest maps of the White Mountains were produced as tourist maps and not topographical maps. One of the first two tourist maps of the mountains was that produced by Franklin Leavitt, a self-taught artist born near Lancaster, New Hampshire in 1824. [4]
Palo Pinto Mountains State Park is an undeveloped 4,000 plus acre [1] state park in Palo Pinto and Stephens County, Texas near the City of Strawn. The park is located in the Western Cross Timbers Ecoregion. The park is administered by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department which bought the property from private landowners in October 2011 with ...