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On March 19, 1983, the numbering plan area was divided for the first time, when the immediate Houston area retained 713, while the northern, eastern and western portions received area code 409. On November 2, 1996, area code 713 was split again, with most of Houston's suburbs switching to the new code 281.
832: Houston area, overlays with 281, 346, 621 and 713 (January 16, 1999) 903: Texarkana, Tyler, Sherman, Longview, Marshall, Palestine, Jacksonville, Carthage, and Northeast Texas (November 4, 1990) 915: All of El Paso County and portion of Hudspeth County (October 1947)
Between 2004 and 2009 the population of the Harris County jails increased from 7,648 to 11,546. From 2003 to 2011 the number of full-time psychiatrists increased from three to eleven. As of 2011 25% of prisoners require mental health services. Of them, 90% had been previously placed in the Harris County jail. [11]
Houston (/ ˈ h juː s t ən / ⓘ HEW-stən) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in the Southern United States.Located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, it is the seat of Harris County, as well as the principal city of the Greater Houston metropolitan area, the fifth-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States and the ...
The moment a helicopter crashed into a radio tower in Houston, Texas, on Sunday night (20 October) was caught on a security camera. Footage showed the moment of the crash when the helicopter was ...
Those outside Beltway 8 but within city limits had received the 281 or 832 area code. The geographic division between 713, 281, and 832 has been eliminated, and newly issued phone numbers (especially for cell phones and fax machines) within that zone may be assigned any of the three codes. There is also a new, 346 area code.
The protocol used in Houston is ATA for automatic equipment identification; however, a driver in Houston can conceivably use the tag in another state where the other protocols are used. In addition, the tags support ANSI INCITS 256-2001 and ISO 10374. The tag is read by scanners as far as 31.5 feet (9.6 m) at 915 MHz, and the tag features a ...
The Houston ARTCC is one of 22 Air Route Traffic Control Centers in the United States. Houston Center is the 8th busiest ARTCC in the United States. In 2024, Houston Center handled 2,338,712 aircraft. [2] The center controls airspace in southern Texas, Louisiana, southern Mississippi, southwestern Alabama, and areas in the Gulf of Mexico. [3]