Houston Travel

Houston's a state-of-Texas city in the United States. This is the oil and gas industry center. Houston is the largest city of Texas and the fourth largest city of the United States. This city has an area of more than 1,600 km² (600 square miles) and is the district of Harris County, the third east district in the country. Houston has a population of over 2 million people (2005). This city is located in the center of the Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown municipality, which is the largest cultural and economic center of the Gulf of Mexico and the 7th largest U.S. metropolitan area with 5.3 million people in 10 districts.

Introduction

Houston is world-famous for its energy industry (mainly oil and space technology) and its traversal of shipping. The port of Houston is the sixth largest port in international commodity traffic. According to the 2000 U.S. Census, the number of Vietnamese-American people in Houston is 32,261 people, accounting for 1.7 percent of the population in the entire city.

History of history

In the mid-1800s, the brothers - John Kirby Allen and Augustus Chapman Allen - were entrepreneurs and geographers in New York looking for a place where they could start building "a big hub of government and trade." In August 1836, they bought 6,642 acre-feet (27 kilometers) from T. F. Parrot, John Austin's widow, at 9,428 U.S. dollars. The Allen brothers named their city after Sam Houston. Houston started as a small village. Gail and Thomas H. Borden measure and map the city in a standard chess board, with wide roads that parallel and square with the network of rivers in the region. The city was allowed to establish on June 5, 1837 and James S. Holman became the first mayor. The same year, Houston also became the administrative ward of Harrisburg District, again renamed Harris County in 1839. At this time, Texas Parliament appointed Houston as the temporary capital of the just established Texas Republic. The capital was then moved to Austin, then known as Waterloo on January 14, 1839.

In 1900, the population of Houston was around 45,000 — the largest city 85 in the United States. The discovery of oil in Spindletop in Beaumont in 1901 was the driving of the oil industry, gradually turning Houston into a big city. In 1902, Theodore Roosevelt approved a $1 million project to upgrade the Houston shipyard. In 1910, the population of Houston became larger than Galveston. President Woodrow Wilson launched the Houston port in 1914, 74 years after the digging began. In 1914, the Houston Canal was dredged to give Houston a deep water-moving scene, crossing Galveston's port, which was partially damaged by a Galveston storm in 1900. When World War II started, shipments were reduced and five shipping lanes completed their journeys to Houston, but the war brought some economic benefits to the city. Ellington Airport, built in World War I, was reused as a training center for bomber pilots, and planes and ship-building became major industry in the state. The M. D. Anderson Foundation established the Texas Medical Center in 1945. The bank also made it far above the level in the late 1940s. After the war, the Houston economy was reversed to a port-based economy. In 1948, a number of empty areas were added to the city's limits, and the Houston spaced out throughout the prairie. The shipbuilding industry during World War II pushed development, as well as the creation of 1961, of NASA's "Control-Ship Center" (renamed as Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in 1973), creating the city's aviation industry. In December 1961, Typhoon Carla flashed into the city. Astrodome (later known as Harris County Domed Stadium), is the home stadium that had the first dome, opened in 1965 and quickly called "The 8th Wonder of the World."

In the late 1970s, the population explosion from the oil crisis of 1973 and the population from Rust Belt States migrated in large numbers to Texas, benefiting from the scarcity of oil. But Houston's dependence on oil has led to its downturn in the 1980s, and since that time, Houston was trying to diversify the city's economic sectors by focusing on the aviation industry and biotechnology, and dampening its dependence on oil.

1990 saw the Houston Continental Airport built by Mickey Leland International Airport. The 12-gate station is named after Mickey Leland. The same year, the G8 conference was held in Houston. Lee P. Brown, Houston's first black mayor, was elected in 1997.

Geography

Houston is situated in the coasts of the coastal plains, and plants are classified as temperate grassland. Most cities are built in forests, swamps or prairie land — all of these things are still seen in the surrounding areas.

Most of Houston is flat, flooding is an annual problem for the people here. The central area is about 50 feet above sea level - with the majority of the city 100 feet below. The city used to rely on groundwater for water needs, but the land forced the city to use surface water sources such as the Houston lake.

Houston has four major rivers running through the city: The Buffalo River Creek, runs through the city center and the Houston Canal; and three little branches of it: Brays, which runs along the Texas Center for Health; White Oak, running through the Heights area and near the northwest; And the Sims, they run through souHouston and the Houston center. The ship's channel passes through Galveston and flows into the Gulf of Mexico.

Climate

The Houston climate is listed as the subtropic. The average annual rainfall is about 48 inches (1,220 mm). The spring storm sometimes brings a tornado into the area. Wind blew year round from the south and southeast over most of the year, carrying the heat from the Mexican deserts and humidity from the Gulf of Mexico.

During the summer months, the highest temperature of the day can reach 94°F (34°C) by the end of July at an average of 99 days per year having a temperature above 90°F (32°C). The air feels like standing still and humidity (average over 90 percent of the moderate humidity in the morning in summer and about 60 percent in afternoon) resulting in a temperature higher than real temperatures. In response to the heat, people use air conditioners almost every car and every building in the city. Afternoon rains are common and during summer days, Houston Meteorologists are expected to have at least some rain potential.

The hottest temperature reported in Houston is 109°F (43°C) on September 4, 2000. Winter in Houston is cool and peaceful. While the average is high in January, the coldest month, is 61°F (16°C), Houston has an average of 18 days a year at 32°F (0°C) or lower. Tuyet is never heard of, and is often poured back when the snow is seen. The last snowstorm to Houston was December 24, 2004 - the first snowfall night was recorded in the city on Christmas Eve. The lowest temperature ever recorded in Houston was 5F (-15°C) on January 23, 1940.

Arrive

By air

Houston is administered by two large commercial airports and two smaller regional airports.

The big airports are:

George Bush continental Airport, (IATA: IAH) [1]. The larger airport is in the two airport and lies 23 miles north of the city center near Beltway 8, between the IH-45 North and U.S.-59 North. It is United Airlines’s largest center and serves 24 international and domestic airlines.
William P. Hobby Airport, (IATA:) HOU) [2]. Seven miles south of the city center and off the coast of I-45 South. It's convenient if you travel in the center of the city or the south side of the city, for example, to have Galveston. Its major airlines is Southwest Airlines, and it is also served by Delta Airlines, American Airlines, JetBlue, and AirTran (acquired by Southwest and will be absorbed by providers in 2012).

The smaller airports are:

Sugar Land Regional Airport, (IATA: SGR [3]. It's 25 miles southwest of the city center on TX 6, north of the United States 59.
Ellington Field, (IATA: EFD) [4]. Nineteen miles southeast of the city center, just off I-45. Previously, airbase, were being used for non-synthetic aviation, commercial airplanes carrying passengers, and airlines (NASA, Texas Air National Guard, US Coast Guard).

By train/fire

By car

Houston's main highway consists of:

IH-45 North ("North Highway"): To Dallas
IH-45 Nam (Freeway Bay): For Galveston
IH-10 West ("Katy Freeway"): To San Antonio
IH-10 East: ("Baytown / East Highway", it should not be confused with "Eastex Highway" for Beaumont
IH-610 ("The Loop"): Around the heart of the town
US-59 South (Southwest Freeway"): Victoria
North American-59 (Eastex Highway"): to Lufkin
US-290 West ("West Highway"): to Austin
SH-249 North ("Tomball Parkway"): Tomball
SH-288 South ("South Highway"): Freeport
SH-225 East ("Pasadena Highway"): La Porte Province
BW-8 ("The Beltway / Sam Houston Tollway"): It's about twice as far as the IH-610.

Relative distance of nearby cities (in km):

Austin: 160
Baton Rouge, LA: 270
Beaumont. AD 90
Dallas: 240
El Paso: AD 745
Galveston: AD 50
Lake Charles, LA: 140
New Orleans, LA: 346
San Antonio: AD 200
Waco: 180

By bus

Greyhound Lines, [5].
- Downtown, 2121 Main.
- Crosstimbers Station, 4001 North Freeway.
- Northwest, 1500 West Loop North.
- Southeast, 7000 Harrisburg Blvd.
- Southwest, 5690 Southwest Freeway.
Megabus, [6]. Low-cost bus route with service from Dallas, Austin, San Antonio and New Orleans. Tickets per dollar or more.
- Downtown, 815 Pierce St.
El Expreso, [7]. Mexican trans-border bus line, also serves destinations throughout southeastern United States.
- Downtown, 2201 Main Main.
- Harrisburg, 7701 Harrisburg Blvd.
- Southwest, Bissonett at Southwest Freeway (US 59)
Autobus Americanos, [8]. Mexican trans-border bus line with services to various in Mexico.
- Harrisburg, 7700 Harrisburg Blvd.
- Southwest, Hillcroft at Southwest Freeway (US 59)
Turimex Internacional, [9]. Mexican trans-border bus line with services to various in Mexico.
- Harrisburg, 7011 Harrisburg Blvd.
- Southwest, Hillcroft at Southwest Freeway (US 59)
Omnibus Mexicanos, [10]. Mexico bus lines cross borders with services to different locations in Mexico.
- Third Ward, 3200 Telephone Rd.

You can get to Houston easily from Mexico (as far as Mexico City and Michoacan) on a bus. In the bus stations of various big cities in Mexico, you'll see a bus commercial going to Houston.

There are a lot of private bus companies in Houston that are focused on serving Mexico.