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  2. National Register of Historic Places listings in Harris ...

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    The properties are distributed across Harris County. There is a concentration in "Downtown Houston", defined as the area enclosed by Interstate 10 , Interstate 45 , and Interstate 69 . More than 100 are in the "Houston Heights" neighborhood whose borders are, approximately, Highway I-10 on the South, I-610 on the North, 45 on the East and ...

  3. National Register of Historic Places listings in Texas

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    The table, further below, reports currently listings by county, updated frequently. [a] Regions are defined by the Texas State Comptroller, who has partitioned the state into 12 regions for economic performance reporting, as shown here. As of March 2022, corresponding to the map of tallies of current listings by county, region totals were:

  4. Recorder of deeds - Wikipedia

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    Portrait of Frederick Douglass in the D.C. Recorder of Deeds Building. Frederick Douglass was the first recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia.. Recorder of deeds or deeds registry is a government office tasked with maintaining public records and documents, especially records relating to real estate ownership that provide persons other than the owner of a property with real rights over ...

  5. Harris County, Texas - Wikipedia

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    The county paid $80,000 for 100 acres (40 ha) of land, then put in the Harris County Home For the Aged, a poor farm for elderly people of all races which had a capacity of 100; the poor farm opened in 1922. Around that time, the county cemetery was also established there. The Harris County Commissioners closed the poor farm in August 1958. [42]

  6. List of counties in Texas - Wikipedia

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    Harris County: 201: Houston: 1836: One of the original 23 counties Named Harrisburg County until 1839: John Richardson Harris, early settler and founder of Harrisburg, Texas, which eventually became known as Houston: 4,835,125: 1,729 sq mi (4,478 km 2) Harrison County: 203: Marshall: 1839: Shelby County: Jonas Harrison, a lawyer and soldier in ...

  7. Texas District Courts - Wikipedia

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    Harris County, the state's most populous, is home to 60 district courts - each one covering the entire county. While district courts can exercise concurrent jurisdiction over an entire county, and they can and do share courthouses and clerks to save money (as allowed under an 1890 Texas Supreme Court case), each is still legally constituted as ...

  8. Bellaire, Texas - Wikipedia

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    Bellaire is a city in southwestern Harris County, Texas, United States, within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area. [5] As of the 2020 U.S. census , the city population was 17,202. It is surrounded by the cities of Houston and West University Place .

  9. 1910 Harris County Courthouse - Wikipedia

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    The Harris County Courthouse of 1910 is one of the courthouse buildings operated by the Harris County, Texas government, in Downtown Houston. It is in the Classical Revival architectural style and has six stories. Two courtrooms inside are two stories each. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 13, 1981. [3]