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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 ...
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. Area code 713 is one of the original four area codes established for Texas ...
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 ...
Almeda is located in District 131 of the Texas House of Representatives. As of 2008, Alma A. Allen represents the district. [10] Genoa is within District 13 of the Texas Senate; as of 2008 Rodney Ellis represents that district. [11] Almeda is in Texas's 9th congressional district. As of 2008, Al Green represents the district. [12]
Sunnyside, the oldest African-American community in southern Houston, was first platted in 1912. [5] When the community opened in the 1910s, H. H. Holmes, the founder, gave the land the name Sunny Side. [6] By the 1940s area residents established a water district and a volunteer fire department. The City of Houston annexed Sunnyside in 1956. [5]
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."
Maplewood is a community in Houston, Texas located outside the 610 Loop, southwest of Downtown Houston. It consists of 524 houses. They are one-story and two-story houses, as two stories is the limit allowed by the subdivision. The oldest houses were built in the early 1950s. Maplewood is located along Beechnut, Hillcroft, and Renwick. [1]
Settegast. Settegast is a neighborhood in northeast Houston; it has an average population density between one and five. [1] The community is bordered by the 610 Loop, the Union Pacific Railroad Settegast Yard, [2] [3] and the old Beaumont Highway.