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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 ...
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 ...
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."
In 1953, Lake Houston was opened as a water reservoir serving the City of Houston and serves as a recreational lake in the area today with boating, water skiing, jetting, fishing, and sailing. Huffman covers about 39 square miles (100 km 2 ) and houses approximately 12,000 citizens. [ 3 ]
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]
A sign indicating the Westbury neighborhood. Westbury is a neighborhood in the Brays Oaks district of Southwest Houston, Texas, United States.It is located east of Bob White Road, north of U.S. Highway 90 Alternate (South Main Street), and west of South Post Oak Road, adjacent to the Fondren Southwest and Meyerland neighborhoods, just west of the southwest corner of the 610 Loop.
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.
The community is located east of downtown Houston, south of the Brays Bayou and Buffalo Bayou junction, and west of Brady's Island. It was founded before 1825 on the eastern stretches of the Buffalo Bayou in present-day Harris County, Texas, on land belonging to John Richardson Harris. In 1926, Harrisburg was annexed into the city of Houston.