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Houston (/ ˈhjuːstən / ⓘ; 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 ...
- Greater Houston
Greater Houston, designated by the United States Office of...
- Demographics of Houston
In the U.S. state of Texas, Houston is the largest city by...
- Climate of Houston
The climate of Houston is classified as a humid subtropical...
- Geographic Areas of Houston
Downtown Houston at night. Downtown is located in the very...
- List of Tallest Buildings in Houston
Houston, the largest city in Texas, is the site of 58...
- Houston (Disambiguation)
Sam Houston, Texan politician and statesman, for whom the...
- Houston County, Texas
Houston County is a county located in the U.S. state of...
- Neighborhoods
The city of Houston, Texas, contains many neighborhoods,...
- Nineteen School Districts
Hattie Mae White Educational Support Center is the...
- Harris County, Texas
Harris County is a county located in the U.S. state of...
- Greater Houston
The city of Houston in the U.S. state of Texas was founded in 1837 after Augustus and John Allen had acquired land to establish a new town at the junction of Buffalo and White Oak bayous in 1836. Houston served as the temporary capital of the Republic of Texas. Meanwhile, the town developed as a regional transportation and commercial hub.
Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas. It is the 4th most populous city in the United States. As of 2020, more than 2 million people lived there. John Whitmire became the mayor of Houston in 2024. Houston is named after Samuel Houston, who fought for Texas to leave Mexico in 1836. The Johnson Space Center of NASA is in ...
Greater Houston, designated by the United States Office of Management and Budget as Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land, [4] [5] [6] is the fifth-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States, [7] [8] [9] encompassing nine counties along the Gulf Coast in Southeast Texas.
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Houston is largely located within the Northern Humid Gulf Coast Prairies level IV ecoregion (34a), a subset of the Western Gulf coastal grasslands level III region as defined by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. This region is generally underlaid by Quaternary-aged sand, silts, and clays (clay, clay loam, or sandy clay loam) and co...
Rivers
Houston, often popularly referred to as the Bayou City, is crossed by a number of slow-moving, swampy rivers, which are essential to draining the region's broad floodplains. The city was founded at the convergence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou, a point today known as Allen's Landing. Buffalo Bayou is the longest and largest of the bayous which flow through Houston, following a 53-mile (85 km) route from Katy through Memorial, Rice Military, Downtown, the East End, Denver Harbor, and Ch...
Water bodies
Houston contains few naturally formed lakes. Lake Houston, an 11,854-acre (4,797-hectare) reservoir located approximately 15 miles (24 km) northeast of Downtown, was created by damming the San Jacinto River in the 1950s to create a dependable, long-term supply of drinking water. The lake is owned and operated by the City of Houston. Besides supplying water to the city, the lake is also a central feature of the Kingwoodcommunity and serves as a recreational destination. Galveston Bay is a cent...
Two freshwater aquifers, the Chicot and Evangeline, underlie the Greater Houston area. These aquifers are composed mostly of sand and clay. The Chicot is located above the Evangeline, and a confining layer separates them from the Jasper aquifer below, which is mostly saltwater.A majority of drinking water supply wells in Houston are drilled to dept...
When Houston was established in 1837, the city's founders—John Kirby Allen and Augustus Chapman Allen—divided it into political geographic districts called "wards." The ward designation is the progenitor of the current-day Houston City Council districts—there are nine in all. Locations in Houston are generally classified as either being inside or o...
Printable map of Houston city limits, limited purpose annexation, and extraterritorial jurisdiction (Archive)"Super Neighborhoods Map." (." () City of Houston."Annexations in Houston Or How we grew to 667 square miles in 175 years." City of Houston Planning & Development Department.Downtown is the largest central business district in the city of Houston and the largest in the state of Texas, located near the geographic center of the metropolitan area at the confluence of Interstate 10, Interstate 45, and Interstate 69.
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In the U.S. state of Texas, Houston is the largest city by both population and area. With a 1850 United States census population of 2,396—and 596,163 a century later, in 1950—Houston's population has experienced positive growth trends. [1]
