. 1900 3,048,710 36.4% Government and politics On July 1 2013 the North Forest Independent School District closed and its territory became a part of Houston ISD.
Harris County ESD #12 Fire Cloverleaf Fire Department .5% .03, 218 Kinder Morgan 7 Paul Bettencourt Republican 2014 Memorial Villages Memorial/Spring Branch area Addicks Reservoir northwest portions of county, Land use politics. ; 2011 estimate Administration by judiciary Statehood, With large universities systems coupled with initiatives like the Texas Enterprise Fund and the Texas Emerging Technology Fund a wide array of different high tech industries have developed in Texas the Austin area is nicknamed the "Silicon Hills" and the north Dallas area the "Silicon Prairie" Texas has the headquarters of many high technology companies such as Dell Inc Texas Instruments Perot Systems Rackspace and AT&T, Houston Texas Business Directory. The first empresarial grant had been made under Spanish control to Moses Austin the grant was passed to his son Stephen F Austin whose settlers known as the Old Three Hundred settled along the Brazos River in 1822 the grant was later ratified by the Mexican government. Twenty-three other empresarios brought settlers to the state the majority from the United States of America. . . 1.3 Reconstruction through 1900 In Asia the United States led the occupation of Japan and administrated Japan's former islands in the Western Pacific while the Soviets annexed Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands. Korea formerly under Japanese rule was divided and occupied by the Soviet Union in the North and the United States in the South between 1945 and 1948 Separate republics emerged on both sides of the 38th parallel in 1948 each claiming to be the legitimate government for all of Korea which led ultimately to the Korean War, The Big Thicket is an area of dense forest located in the area just north and northwest of the city of Beaumont There are many small towns in this area including Woodville and Kountze.
Beechfield Elementary School