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Pages in category "Missouri City, Texas" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The area in which Missouri City is now located holds a significant part in the history of Texas that dates back to its early days as part of the United States. In August 1853, the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway (BBB&C), began operating its first 20 miles (32 km) of rail line that stretched from Harrisburg (now Houston) to Stafford's Point (now Stafford).
It does not include federal prisons or county jails, nor does it include the North Texas State Hospital; though the facility houses those classified as "criminally insane" (such as Andrea Yates) the facility is under the supervision of the Texas Department of State Health Services. Facilities listed are for males unless otherwise stated.
The company also hired James C. Poland, who had worked in the Texas prison system, where Esmor was angling for new contracts. All of these recruits positioned the company for winnings. In 1994, Slattery and his partners cashed in with an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange valued at $5.2 million.
The Texas Youth Commission (TYC) was a Texas state agency which operated juvenile corrections facilities in the state. The commission was headquartered in the Brown-Heatly Building in Austin . As of 2007, it was the second largest juvenile corrections agency in the United States, after the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice . [ 1 ]
Sienna, formerly known as Sienna Plantation, [3] is a census-designated place and master-planned community located in Fort Bend County, Texas, United States.It is mostly in the extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ) of Missouri City with the remainder in the ETJ of Arcola.
Map of Missouri City. Quail Valley is located at (29.571964, -95.545521), in the central part of Missouri City, Texas. As of 2007 the original portion of Quail Valley has over 3,000 houses, and the community has more than 15 subdivisions. The Quail Valley area, including the original subdivision and other surrounding communities with the Quail ...
DeWalt or Dewalt was an unincorporated area in Fort Bend County, in the U.S. state of Texas. The former community was located on State Highway 6 (SH 6) between Oilfield Road and Farm to Market Road 1092 (FM 1092). DeWalt has been absorbed by the municipality of Missouri City, a Houston suburb. Though Dewalt was noted on highway signs as late as ...