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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 ...
1913 map of the six wards of Houston 1920 map of the six wards of Houston. When the city of Houston was founded in 1836 and incorporated in 1837, its founders—John Kirby Allen and Augustus Chapman Allen—divided it into political geographic districts called "wards".
Residents of these neighborhoods commonly refer to this area as " Northside " Many suburban Houstonians confuse the term to be also associated with the suburbs of North Houston such as Klein, Texas, Spring, FM 1960 or The Woodlands. The Northside along with other neighborhoods inside 610 have recently become the focus of Gentrification in an ...
This category is for neighborhoods of Houston, Texas. Officially Recognized Houston Super Neighborhoods; Subcategories. This category has the following 12 ...
1913 map of the six wards of Houston. In the 1800s much of what was Third Ward, the present-day east side of Downtown Houston, was what Stephen Fox, an architectural historian who lectured at Rice University, referred to as "the elite neighborhood of late 19th-century Houston."
Sunnyside is a community in southern Houston, Texas, United States, south of Downtown Houston. Sunnyside is outside the 610 Loop and inside Beltway 8 off State Highway 288 south of Downtown Houston and is predominantly African American .
Southwest Houston is a region in Houston, Texas, United States. The area is considered to be from Texas State Highway 6 , south of Westpark Tollway to north of U.S. Route 90 . Many Section 8 (housing) complexes are located in Southwest Houston. [ 1 ]
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."