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. . . . This article documents the wide-ranging history of the city of Houston the largest city in the state of Texas and the fourth-largest in the United States. .

. Republican John Kasich[a] Carly Fiorina[a] 0 0.0% 1, In 1799 Spain gave Louisiana back to France in exchange for the promise of a throne in central Italy Although the agreement was signed on October 1 1800 it did not go into effect until 1802 the following year Napoleon sold Louisiana to the United States the original agreement between Spain and France had not explicitly specified the borders of Louisiana and the descriptions in the documents were ambiguous and contradictory the United States insisted that its purchase also included most of West Florida and all of Texas. Other famous and notable East Texans El Paso 92/67 33/21 57/32 14/0 The Community Services Department provides community services the department maintains the 20 acres (8.1 ha) Oates Road Cemetery (also known as the Harris County Cemetery) for indigents in eastern Houston near the former Southern Bible College in March 2010 the county adopted a cremation first policy meaning that the default preference for most indigents is to have them cremated instead of buried As of 2010 the county authorized the Community Services Department to purchase about 50 acres (20 ha) of land in the Huffman area so the county will have additional spaces for indigent burials. . Flag of America 19 10.svg, 1 Geology Franklin Mountains State Park, In 1940 Houston was a city of 400,000 population dependent on shipping and oil the war dramatically expanded the city's economic base thanks to massive federal spending Energetic entrepreneurs most notably George Brown James Elkins and James Abercrombie landed hundreds of millions of dollars in federal wartime investment in technologically complex facilities Houston oil companies moved from being mere refiners and became sophisticated producers of petrochemicals Especially important were synthetic rubber and high octane fuel which retained their importance after the war the war moved the natural gas industry from a minor factor to a major energy source; Houston became a major hub when a local firm purchased the federally-financed Inch pipelines Other major growth industries included steel munitions and shipbuilding Tens of thousands of new migrants streamed in from rural areas straining the city's housing supply and the city's ability to provide local transit and schools For the first time high paying jobs went to large numbers of women blacks and Mexican Americans the city's African American community emboldened by their newfound prosperity became a hotbed of civil rights agitation; the Smith v Allwright Supreme Court decision on voting rights was backed and funded by local blacks in this period.[page needed]. 3.2 Birth of the Spanish Kingdom 9.2 Historiography As of 2010 65.8% (14,740,304) of Texas residents age 5 and older spoke only English at home while 29.2% (6,543,702) spoke Spanish 0.75 percent (168,886) Vietnamese and Chinese (which includes Cantonese and Mandarin) was spoken by 0.56% (122,921) of the population over the age of five; . .