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Sod is grown on specialist farms. For 2009, the United States Department of Agriculture reported 1,412 farms had 368,188 acres (149,000.4 ha) of sod in production. [9]It is usually grown locally (within 100 miles of the target market) [10] to minimize both the cost of transport and also the risk of damage to the product.
Farm to Market Road 1489 (FM 1489) is located in Fort Bend and Waller counties. It runs from US 90 near Brookshire to FM 1952. It runs from US 90 near Brookshire to FM 1952. FM 1489 was designated on July 22, 1949, from US 90, 0.8 miles (1.3 km) west of Brookshire southwest 5.6 miles (9.0 km) to the Fort Bend County line.
Farm to Market Road 1903 (FM 1903) is located in Hunt County. It runs from SH 34 south of Greenville to FM 36 southeast of Caddo Mills. FM 1903 was designated on December 18, 1951, from SH 34, 6 miles (9.7 km) south of Greenville, west 3.4 miles (5.5 km) to a road intersection. On August 20, 1952, the road was extended west 2.2 miles (3.5 km ...
Farm to Market Road 2234 (FM 2234) is an urban and suburban route between Missouri City and Pearland, south-southwest of Houston. Beginning at US 90 Alt. , the road follows a southerly path through neighborhoods of Missouri City, in Fort Bend County , passing briefly through Stafford .
The Port Houston, completed in 1926, was the first fireboat in Houston. [1] She was retired, in 1950, when she was replaced by the Captain Crotty. In 1971 the Texas legislature added new responsibilities to the Port Authority, which acquired an additional vessel, in 1973, the Captain W.L Farnsworth.
Farm to Market Road 270 (FM 270) is a farm to market road in the U.S. state of Texas [2], located in the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area. The road is known locally as Egret Bay Boulevard.
Farm to Market Road 2100 (FM 2100) is located in Harris County. The 14-mile-long (23 km) route has its southern terminus in Barrett at a junction with US 90 (Crosby Freeway), which also serves as the eastern terminus of Bus. US 90 and the western terminus of FM 1942. [2] FM 2100 runs northward via Crosby to an intersection FM 1960 in Huffman. [3]
The Lynchburg Ferry. The Lynchburg Ferry is a free ferry across the Houston Ship Channel in the U.S. state of Texas, connecting Crosby-Lynchburg Road in Lynchburg to the north with the former State Highway 134 and San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site in La Porte to the south.