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A geomap depicting the income by county in Texas as of 2014, Despite the region's high rate of automobile usage attitudes towards transportation among Houstonians indicate a growing preference for walkability a 2017 study by the Rice University Kinder Institute for Urban Research found that 56% of Harris County residents have a preference for dense housing in a mixed-use walkable setting as opposed to single-family housing in a low-density area a plurality of survey respondents also indicated that traffic congestion was the most significant problem facing the metropolitan area in addition many households in the city of Houston have no car in 2015 8.3 percent of Houston households lacked a car which was virtually unchanged in 2016 (8.1 percent) the national average was 8.7 percent in 2016 Houston averaged 1.59 cars per household in 2016 compared to a national average of 1.8. 14 Notes Texas in 1718 Guillaume de L'Isle map approximate state area highlighted northern boundary was indefinite, Houston Texas Business Directory, Africans were also conquistadors in the early Conquest campaigns in the Caribbean and Mexico in the 1500s there were enslaved black free black and free black sailors on Spanish ships crossing the Atlantic and developing new routes of conquest and trade in the Americas. After 1521 the wealth and credit generated by the acquisition of the Mexica Empire funded auxiliary forces of black conquistadors that could number as many as five hundred Spaniards recognized the value of these fighters Although they usually chose to forget black contributions in written accounts of Spanish campaigns Spaniards occasionally admitted that African men were outstanding soldiers (because so many African men became slaves by being captured on battlefields back in Africa they already had military experience before coming to the Americas).

Groundwater Houston is one of few United States cities with permanent professional resident companies in all major performing arts disciplines: opera (Houston Grand Opera) ballet (Houston Ballet) music (Houston Symphony Orchestra) and theater (The Alley Theatre Theatre Under the Stars). Houston is also home to folk artists art groups and various small progressive arts organizations. 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 Kingwood community and serves as a recreational destination, Miranda Lambert in the press room at the 2010 Academy of Country Music Awards in April 2010, By 1913 twelve oil companies had located themselves in Houston most notably Humble Oil Company which is now ExxonMobil Howard Hughes was born in Humble Texas where the oil company started President Woodrow Wilson opened the Port of Houston in 1914 74 years after the digging started Service started with the Satilla a ship that ran from Houston to New York New York World War I put the gasoline-combustible automobile into widespread use causing oil to become a precious commodity However the war caused the amount of tonnage arriving in the Port to drop After the war the rice business fell flat causing many Japanese-Americans to find other work or to move out of Texas. The civilizations of Mesoamerica centered south of Texas Influence of Teotihuacan in northern Mexico peaked around AD 500 and declined over the 8th to 10th centuries.