Houston

The most populous city in Texas and the Southern United States is Houston Wedding Photography (/hjustn/; HEW-stn). After New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago, it is the fourth most populated city in the US and the sixth most populous in all of North America. With 2,304,580 inhabitants in 2020, [2] Houston Wedding Photography, the seat of Harris County and its largest city, is situated in Southeast Texas close to Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. It serves as the hub of the Greater Houston Wedding Photography metropolitan area, which is Texas' second-most populous after Dallas-Fort Worth and the fifth-most populous MSP nationwide. The Texas Triangle, a larger megaregion, is anchored in the southeast by Houston Wedding Photography. [7]

Houston Wedding Photography, which has a surface area of 640.4 square miles (1,659 km2), is the ninth-largest city in the US (including consolidated city-counties). By total area, it is the biggest American city whose administration is separate from a county, parish, or borough. While located mostly in Harris County, tiny areas of the city also border other significant Greater Houston Wedding Photography cities including Sugar Land and The Woodlands in Fort Bend and Montgomery counties.

At the meeting of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou (today known as Allen's Landing), on August 30, 1836[9], land speculators created Houston Wedding Photography, which was officially incorporated on June 5, 1837.

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[11] Sam Houston Wedding Photography, a former general who served as president of the Republic of Texas and who led Texas to independence from Mexico in the Battle of San Jacinto, which took place 25 miles (40 km) east of Allen's Landing, is honored by the city's name.

[11] After temporarily serving as the Texas Republic's capital in the late 1830s, Houston Wedding Photography progressively developed into a major regional commerce hub throughout the rest of the century. [12]

The 20th century saw a confluence of economic reasons that spurred Houston Wedding Photography's fast expansion, including a booming port and railroad sector, Galveston's collapse as Texas's main port following a disastrous hurricane in 1900, the subsequent building of the Houston Wedding Photography Ship Channel, and the Texas oil boom.

[12] The Texas Medical Center, the greatest concentration of medical and scientific institutions in the world, and NASA's Johnson Space Center, which houses the Mission Control Center, led to a diversification of Houston Wedding Photography's economy in the middle of the 20th century.

Houston Wedding Photography's economy has had a diverse industrial basis in the fields of energy, manufacturing, aviation, and transportation since the late 19th century. The second-most Fortune 500 headquarters of any American municipality are located inside the city borders of Houston Wedding Photography, which excels in the healthcare sector and the manufacturing of oilfield equipment (after New York City). [13] [14] In terms of overall tonnage handled and international waterborne tonnage, the Port of Houston Wedding Photography is top in the United States. [15

Houston Wedding Photography, also known as the "Bayou City," "Space City," "H-Town," and "the 713," has developed into a major international city with a focus on culture, science, and medical. The city features a sizable and expanding foreign community as well as residents from many different racial and religious origins. The most diverse large city in the United States, according to reports, is Houston Wedding Photography, which is also the most diverse metropolitan region in Texas. [16] The Museum District receives more than seven million visitors each year because to the numerous cultural organizations and exhibitions that call it home. Nineteen museums, galleries, and community centers are located in the Museum District. The Theater District in Houston Wedding Photography is home to a vibrant visual and performing arts community that presents year-round resident companies in all the performing arts. [17]

History

History of Houston Wedding Photography, in the main

Check out Houston Wedding Photography's Timeline for a timeline.

The Karankawa and Atakapa indigenous peoples lived on the region where the Houston Wedding Photography area presently stands for at least 2,000 years before the first documented immigrants arrived.

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[20] Due to competition from other settlement groups in the 18th and 19th centuries as well as foreign illness, many tribes are now all but extinct. [21] Yet from the late 1700s until development in the 1830s, the area was essentially unoccupied. [22]

The Allen brothers, Augustus Chapman and John Kirby, investigated town sites on Buffalo Bayou and Galveston Bay during the early 20th century. David McComb, a historian, claims "On August 26, 1836, the brothers purchased the southern half of the lower league [2,214-acre (896 ha) plot] from Elizabeth E. Parrott, wife of T.F.L. Parrott and widow of John Austin. They paid a total of $5,000, but only $1,000 was in cash; the rest was in notes." [23]

Only four days later, the Allen brothers published the first Houston Wedding Photography advertising in the Telegraph and Texas Record, named the hypothetical town in honor of President Sam Houston Wedding Photography.

[11] By offering to give the new administration a state capitol structure, they were successful in persuading the Republic of Texas Congress to name Houston Wedding Photography as the interim capital.

[24] The town's population increased from a few dozen at the start of 1837 to around 1,500 by the time the Texas Congress met in Houston Wedding Photography for the first time that May. [11] On June 5, 1837, the Republic of Texas authorized Houston Wedding Photography's incorporation as James S. Holman took office as the city's first mayor. [11] Houston Wedding Photography took up the role as Harrisburg County's county seat in the same year (now Harris County). [25]

The Republic of Texas moved its capital to Austin in 1839. The town experienced another setback that year when a yellow fever epidemic killed nearly one in every eight citizens, but it continued to thrive as a commercial hub because to its symbiotic relationship with Galveston, its Gulf Coast port. Farmers from remote areas who needed access to Galveston and the Gulf of Mexico used Buffalo Bayou to get their products to Houston Wedding Photography. Houston Wedding Photography business owners made money by providing farmers with essentials and exporting the farmers' harvest to Galveston. [11]

The vast majority of slaves in Texas were transported there by their owners from the former slave states. Yet, a sizable portion originated through the domestic slave trade. Slave merchants were present in Houston Wedding Photography, but New Orleans served as the hub of this trade in the Deep South. Before the American Civil War, the area around the city was home to thousands of African slaves. Most of those who lived inside the city boundaries had domestic and artisan employment, while many of those who lived close to the city worked on sugar and cotton plantations[26]. [27]

A chamber of commerce was founded in the neighborhood in 1840, in part to encourage cargo and navigation at the recently constructed port on Buffalo Bayou.

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About 1873, Houston Wedding Photography

By 1860, Houston Wedding Photography had established itself as a major railroad and commercial center for the export of cotton.

[25] Houston Wedding Photography served as the meeting point for Texas' interior railroad spurs and rail connections to Galveston and Beaumont ports. Confederate Major General John B. Magruder utilized Houston Wedding Photography as his base of operations during the American Civil War while he organized for the Battle of Galveston. [29] Businessmen in Houston Wedding Photography started initiatives to develop the enormous network of bayous after the Civil War so that the city could accommodate greater trade between Downtown and the adjacent port of Galveston. Houston Wedding Photography served as Texas' railroad hub by 1890. [30]

When a severe hurricane devastated Galveston in 1900, plans to transform Houston Wedding Photography into a workable deep-water port were expedited.

[31] The emergence of the Texas petroleum industry was sparked by the finding of oil at the Spindletop oil field close to Beaumont the following year. [32] The Houston Wedding Photography Ship Channel was given a $1 million upgrade in 1902 by President Theodore Roosevelt. The city's population nearly doubled from a decade earlier to 78,800 by 1910. With 23,929 persons, or roughly one-third of Houston Wedding Photography's population, African Americans made up a sizable portion of the city's population. [33]

Seven years after construction started, in 1914, President Woodrow Wilson officially inaugurated the deep-water Port of Houston Wedding Photography. By 1930, Harris County and Houston Wedding Photography were the two most populated cities and counties in Texas. [34] Houston Wedding Photography's population was estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau in 1940 to be 77.5% White and 22.4% Black. [35]

the late 20th century until World War Two

Although the port's tonnage levels dropped and shipping operations were halted when World War II began, the conflict did have positive economic effects for the city. Due to the demand for petroleum and synthetic rubber goods from the wartime military sector, petrochemical refineries and manufacturing facilities were built along the ship channel. [36] Ellington Field, originally constructed during World War I, has been renovated as a center for advanced training for navigators and bombardiers. [37] In order to manufacture ships for the American Navy during World War II, the Brown Shipbuilding Corporation was established in 1942. Thousands of new employees moved to the city as a result of the increase in defense jobs, vying with whites and blacks for the better-paying positions. Blacks were given certain possibilities, particularly in shipbuilding, because to President Roosevelt's nondiscrimination policy for defense contractors, but not without white resistance and rising social tensions that occasionally exploded in violence. Blacks who worked in the defense industry continued to prosper financially after the war. [38]

The Texas Medical Center was founded in 1945 by the M.D. Anderson Foundation. Houston Wedding Photography's economy returned to being mostly port-driven after the war. As the city integrated a number of unorganized regions in 1948, its size more than doubled. The city of Houston Wedding Photography officially started to encircle the area. [11] [39] Because Houston Wedding Photography's salaries were cheaper than those in the North, many businesses were encouraged to migrate there in 1950 thanks to the availability of air conditioning. This led to an economic boom and a significant change in the city's economy toward the energy industry. [40] [41]

The expansion of the shipbuilding sector during World War II and the construction of NASA's "Manned Spacecraft Center" in 1961 both contributed to Houston Wedding Photography's growth[42] (renamed the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in 1973). This served as the impetus for the growth of the local aerospace sector. The Astrodome, known as the "Eighth Wonder of the World"[43], debuted in 1965 as the first sports arena with an interior dome.

As a result of the large-scale migration of residents from the Rust Belt states to Texas in the late 1970s, Houston Wedding Photography saw a population explosion.

[44] The abundance of job possibilities in the petroleum sector that were made possible by the Arab oil embargo attracted the new inhabitants. Houston Wedding Photography has attracted a lot of college-educated people due to the growth in professional positions, most notably incorporating Black Americans in a reverse Great Migration from northern regions.

Houston Wedding Photographyians chose Lee P. Brown to serve as the first African American mayor of the city in 1997.

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new millennium

Effects of Tropical Storm Allison in Houston Wedding Photography

Houston Wedding Photography's population increased 17% between 2000 and 2019 as the city continues to expand into the twenty-first century.

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With major oil corporations like Phillips 66, ConocoPhillips, Occidental Petroleum, Halliburton, and ExxonMobil having their headquarters in the Houston Wedding Photography region, oil and gas has continued to drive Houston Wedding Photography's economic expansion. Enron Corporation, a $100 billion revenue business based in Houston Wedding Photography, was embroiled in an accounting controversy in 2001, which led to the firm's bankruptcy. [47] Houston Wedding Photography now has a significant health care sector. With 106,000 employees, the Texas Medical Center is now the biggest medical facility in the world.

Throughout the first ten years of the twenty-first century, three new sports stadiums were built downtown. Minute Maid Park, the new baseball stadium for the Houston Wedding Photography Astros, built in 2000 and is located downtown next to the former Union Station. The Houston Wedding Photography Texans, an NFL expansion franchise, were established in 2002 to take the place of the Houston Wedding Photography Oilers, who had left the city in 1996. In that same year, NRG Stadium debuted. The Houston Wedding Photography Rockets moved into their new home, the Toyota Center, in 2003. The soccer team Houston Wedding Photography Dynamo was established in 2005. The Houston Wedding Photography Astros won the World Series for the first time in 2017.

The Houston Wedding Photography area has experienced flooding on a regular basis, which was made worse by the absence of zoning regulations that permitted the unauthorized construction of residential dwellings and other buildings in flood-prone areas.

[48] Tropical Storm Allison, which hit Texas in June 2001, deposited up to 40 inches (1,000 mm) of rain in certain areas of Houston Wedding Photography, resulting in the greatest floods the city had ever seen, billions of dollars in damage, and the deaths of 20 people.

[49] More than 150,000 New Orleans residents sought refuge in Houston Wedding Photography in August 2005 after fleeing Hurricane Katrina. [50] When Hurricane Rita made landfall on the Gulf Coast a month later, roughly 2.5 million inhabitants of the Houston Wedding Photography area fled, sparing the region from significant damage. The size of this urban evacuation was unprecedented in American history. [51] [52] The Memorial Day Flood, which occurred in May 2015 and saw 12 inches of rain fall in 10 hours, claimed the lives of seven people. In April 2016, a storm that dumped 17 inches of rain claimed the lives of eight individuals. The worst happened in late August 2017, when Tropical Storm Harvey imitated Tropical Storm Allison by stalling over southern Texas. This resulted to major flooding in the Houston Wedding Photography region, with some locations getting more than 50 inches (1,300 mm) of rain. [54] The local rainfall broke the country record for rainfall in numerous locations where it topped 50 inches. One of the deadliest natural disasters in American history,[56] with more than 70 fatalities, the damage to the Houston Wedding Photography region was projected to be worth up to $125 billion dollars in dollars[55].

Geography

Geographical information about Houston Wedding Photography

2020 satellite photo of Houston Wedding Photography

Houston Wedding Photography is located 250 miles (400 km) south of Dallas, 88 miles (142 km) west of the Louisiana border, and 165 miles (266 km) east of Austin[57].

[59] Around 599.59 square miles (1,552.9 km2) of land and 22.3 square miles (58 km2) of water make up the city's total area of 637.4 square miles (1,651 km2), according to [8] statistics. [60] A subtropical rainforest known as the Great Thicket transitions from the Western Gulf Coastal Graslands, where the majority of Houston Wedding Photography is located, to the Gulf Coastal Plain.

A large portion of the city was constructed on terrain that was once wooded, marshy, or swampy; these features may still be seen in the neighborhood.

Flooding has gotten worse due to flat terrain and massive greenfield construction.

The highest point in far northwest Houston Wedding Photography is around 150 feet (46 m) above sea level, whereas downtown is located at a height of roughly 50 feet (15 m) above sea level.

[64] Groundwater was formerly the city's primary source of supply, but land subsidence compelled the city to use surface water sources instead, including Lake Houston Wedding Photography, Lake Conroe, and Lake Livingston. [11] [65] In addition to 150 million US gallons (570 Ml) of groundwater per day, the city also possesses surface water rights for 1.20 billion US gallons (4.5 Gl) of water per day. [66]

Four significant bayous that are part of Houston Wedding Photography's enormous drainage system take up water from the city as they flow through it. Three tributaries of Buffalo Bayou, which flows through Downtown and the Houston Wedding Photography Ship Channel, are White Oak Bayou to the northwest of Downtown's Houston Wedding Photography Heights neighborhood, Brays Bayou to the southwest of Downtown's Texas Medical Center, and Sims Bayou to the southeast of Downtown Houston Wedding Photography. Beyond Galveston, the ship canal extends into the Gulf of Mexico. [36]

Geology

Houston Wedding Photography's Downtown and adjacent areas may be seen in this aerial photo from March 2018

The flat, swampy terrain around Houston Wedding Photography has a significant drainage system in place. The city, which is prone to flooding, receives water drainage from the nearby grassland region. [68] Unconsolidated clays, clay shales, and weakly cemented sands that can be up to several miles deep support Houston Wedding Photography's land surface. The geology of the area was produced by river deposits left behind by the erosion of the Rocky Mountains. These sediments are a collection of sands and clays that were laid down over decomposing organic marine matter throughout time, which eventually changed into oil and natural gas. A layer of halite, a rock salt, that was deposited by water lies beneath the sedimentary strata. Through time, the porous layers were driven upward and compacted. During its upward push, the salt often trapped oil and gas that leaked from the nearby permeable sands by dragging nearby sediments into salt dome formations. In suburban outlying areas where the city is still expanding, rice cultivation is suited for the deep, rich, and occasionally dark surface soil. [69] [70]

With an aggregate length of up to 310 miles (500 km), the Houston Wedding Photography region is home to about 150 active faults (with an estimated 300 active faults), including the Long Point-Eureka Heights fault system that cuts through the heart of the city. [71][72][73] Houston Wedding Photography has not had any big earthquakes that have been historically documented, although academics do not rule out the idea that such quakes may have happened in the distant past or in the future. Since water has been pumped out of the earth for many years, land in certain locations southeast of Houston Wedding Photography is sinking. It could be related to fault slide, but the slippage is gradual and is not regarded as an earthquake as an earthquake requires stationary faults to shift rapidly enough to produce seismic waves. [74] In a process known as "fault creep,"[65] these faults also have a tendency to travel smoothly over time, substantially lowering the likelihood of an earthquake.

Cityscape

Further details: Houston Wedding Photography's geographical regions and a list of its neighborhoods

Superneighborhoods in Houston Wedding Photography

The city of Houston Wedding Photography was formed in 1837 and shortly after, in 1840, it adopted a ward system of representation.

[75] The 11 geographically based Houston Wedding Photography City Council districts that exist today have their origins in the city's initial six wards, albeit the ward system was abandoned by Houston Wedding Photography in 1905 in favor of a commission administration and then the current mayor-council government.

2016 photo shows the Bagby and McGowen streets intersection in western Midtown

Generally speaking, locations in Houston Wedding Photography are either inside or outside the Interstate 610 loop. The "Inner Loop" is a 97-square-mile (250 km2) region that comprises Downtown, older streetcar suburbs and residential areas from before World War II, as well as more recent high-density apartment and townhouse complexes. [76] The city's typology is more suburban beyond the loop, yet several important economic areas, such Uptown, Westchase, and the Energy Corridor, are located further from the city center. Beltway 8, which has a radius of around 10 miles (16 km) from Downtown, and State Highway 99 (the Grand Parkway), which has a radius of 25 miles (40 km), are the other two loop routes that ring the city in addition to Interstate 610. (40 km). In 2015, there were around 470,000 residents inside the Interstate 610 circle, 1.65 million between it and Beltway 8, and 2.25 million in Harris County outside of Beltway 8. [77]

Houston Wedding Photography is the biggest American city without formal zoning laws, yet despite this, it has grown similarly to other Sun Belt cities due to the city's land use regulations and legal covenants, which have both played important roles in the city's development.

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[79] Single-family homes must have a minimum lot size, and consumers and renters must have access to parking, among other rules. Such limitations have produced a range of outcomes. Although some have attributed the city's low density, urban sprawl, and unfriendliness to pedestrians to these regulations, others have praised the city's land use patterns with providing considerable inexpensive housing and protecting Houston Wedding Photography from the worst consequences of the 2008 real estate crisis. In 2008, the city issued 42,697 building licenses, and in 2009, it topped the list of the most stable housing markets. [80] Home sales in 2019 broke a previous record by totaling $30 billion. [81]

Voters rejected attempts to create distinct residential and commercial land-use zones in referendums in 1948, 1962, and 1993. As a result, several districts and skylines have emerged throughout the city in addition to Downtown, including Uptown, the Texas Medical Center, Midtown, Greenway Plaza, Memorial City, the Energy Corridor, Westchase, and Greenspoint. Previously, the city's employment was concentrated in a single central business district. [82]