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214, 469, 972, and 945. FIPS code. 48-01924. GNIS feature ID. 1329377 [2] Website. cityofallen.org. Allen is a city in Collin County in the U.S. state of Texas, and a northern suburb in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. The population was 104,627 at the 2020 census, [3] and was estimated to be 111,551 in 2022. [4]
2,220 ft (680 m) Lake Alan Henry is a reservoir situated in the upper Brazos River Basin in the United States. Created by the construction of the John T. Montford Dam in 1993, it is operated and used as a future tertiary water supply by the city of Lubbock, Texas and serves as a recreational spot for the region of West Texas. [2] The surface ...
454.16 acres (183.79 ha) 1968. Fort Richardson State Park, Historic Site, and Lost Creek Reservoir State Trailway. Franklin Mountains State Park. El Paso. 24,247 acres (9,812 ha) 1987. Franklin Mountains State Park. Galveston Island State Park.
The Texas Blackland Prairies are a temperate grassland ecoregion located in Texas that runs roughly 300 miles (480 km) from the Red River in North Texas to San Antonio in the south. The prairie was named after its rich, dark soil. [3] Less than 1% of the original Blackland prairie vegetation remains, scattered across Texas in parcels.
Eleanor Tinsley Park. Coordinates: 29.7614°N 95.3777°W. Downtown Houston from Eleanor Tinsley Park. Eleanor Tinsley Park is a section of Buffalo Bayou Park in Houston, Texas. It was designated on April 20, 1998 in honor of Eleanor Tinsley, who served as a member of the Houston City Council At-Large for 16 years. [1]
The Fourth Ward lost prominence due to its inability to expand geographically, as other developments hemmed in the area. [1] Mike Snyder of the Houston Chronicle said that local historians traced the earliest signs of decline to 1940, and that it was influenced by many factors, including the opening of Interstate 45 and the construction of Allen Parkway Village, [3] a public housing complex of ...
I-45. Allen Parkway is an arterial road west of Downtown Houston, Texas. It has a distance of approximately 2.3 miles (3.7 km), running from Interstate 45 west to Shepherd Drive, where it becomes Kirby Drive. Originally known as Buffalo Parkway, [1] it was later named after John Kirby Allen and Augustus Chapman Allen, the founders of Houston.
Meridian State Park at The Look of Nature: Designing Texas State Parks During the Great Depression This page was last edited on 8 August 2024, at 16:50 ...