334 Targa Resources In 1837 the Racer's Storm passed just to the south of the town raising water levels four feet the Great Hurricane of 1900 destroyed the nearby (and then much bigger) city of Galveston which is situated on a barrier island 50 mi (80 km) southeast of downtown Houston That hurricane weakened to a tropical storm by the time it reached Houston the periphery of Hurricane Carla hit the city in 1961 causing major damage to Houston At the time of landfall Carla was the most powerful tropical system to hit the Texas coast in over 40 years in 1983 the city was struck squarely by Hurricane Alicia causing $1 billion of damage to the city during a down period in the city's economy. . Hispanics and Latinos are the second-largest group in Texas after non-Hispanic European Americans Over 8.5 million people claim Hispanic or Latino ethnicity This group forms over 37 percent of Texas's population People of Mexican descent alone number over 7.9 million and make up 31.6 percent of the population the vast majority of the Hispanic/Latino population in the state is of Mexican descent the next two largest groups are Salvadorans and Puerto Ricans There are over 222,000 Salvadorans and over 130,000 Puerto Ricans in Texas Other groups with large numbers in Texas include Hondurans Guatemalans Nicaraguans and Cubans among others the Hispanics in Texas are more likely than in some other states (such as California) to identify as white; according to the 2010 U.S Census Texas is home to 6,304,207 White Hispanics and 2,594,206 Hispanics of "some other race" (usually mestizo). 45 Targa Resources 416 The 2010 U.S Census shows these 41 East Texas counties with a population of 2,057,518 residents which represents 8% of the total state population of Texas. . 2 Early Spanish exploration (31.7) 80.8 (22.7) 63.4 5 Awards and recognitions the Pueblo from the upper Rio Grande region centered west of Texas; . .
8.3 Intercity buses Houston Texas Business Directory, 1 Seasonal observation From the 8th century the bow and arrow appeared in the region manufacture of pottery developed and Native Americans increasingly depended on bison for survival Obsidian objects found in various Texan sites attest of trade with cultures in present-day Mexico and the Rocky Mountains as the material is not found locally, Whites (Non-Hispanic) 25.6% 30.8% 40.6% 62.4% Houston Texas Business Directory By the end of the day on March 16 the bulk of Urrea's forces began marching to Goliad to corner Fannin. Still waiting for word from King and Ward Fannin continued to delay his evacuation from Goliad as they prepared to leave on March 18 Urrea's advance guard arrived For the rest of the day the two cavalries skirmished aimlessly succeeding only in exhausting the Texian oxen which had remained hitched to their wagons with no food or water throughout the day; Texans have historically had difficulties traversing Texas due to the state's large size and rough terrain Texas has compensated by building both America's largest highway and railway systems in length the regulatory authority the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) maintains the state's immense highway system regulates aviation and public transportation systems. Aftermath Further information: Diplomatic history of World War II, Matthias Ward settled in Clarksville Red River County and Jefferson Marion County Houston also hosts a number of graduate schools in law and healthcare the University of Houston Law Center and Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University are public ABA-accredited law schools while the South Texas College of Law located in Downtown serves as a private independent alternative the Texas Medical Center is home to a high density of health professions schools including two medical schools: McGovern Medical School part of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and Baylor College of Medicine a highly selective private institution Prairie View A&M University's nursing school is located in the Texas Medical Center Additionally both Texas Southern University and the University of Houston have pharmacy schools and the University of Houston hosts a college of optometry; Treasurer Dylan Osborne Democratic Emerging Research Universities (Tier 2), They had benefited from Guinea's connections with neighbouring Iberians and north African Muslim states Due to these connections mathematicians and experts in naval technology appeared in Portugal Portuguese and foreign experts made several breakthroughs in the fields of mathematics cartography and naval technology. The Theater District is a 17-block area in the center of Downtown Houston that is home to the Bayou Place entertainment complex restaurants movies plazas and parks Bayou Place is a large multilevel building containing full-service restaurants bars live music billiards and Sundance Cinema the Bayou Music Center stages live concerts stage plays and stand-up comedy Space Center Houston is the official visitors' center of NASA's Lyndon B Johnson Space Center the Space Center has many interactive exhibits including moon rocks a shuttle simulator and presentations about the history of NASA's manned space flight program Other tourist attractions include the Galleria (Texas' largest shopping mall located in the Uptown District) Old Market Square the Downtown Aquarium and Sam Houston Race Park.
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