Groundwater Cypress Creek drains a significant portion of northern Harris County the river flows for 52 miles (84 km) through the suburban areas of Cypress and Spring before joining the San Jacinto River the creek's watershed which covers 310 square miles (800 km2) is one of the largest in the county! Public facilities Under Jim Hogg the state turned its attention toward corporations violating the state monopoly laws in 1894 Texas filed a lawsuit against John D Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company and its Texas subsidiary the Waters-Pierce Oil Company of Missouri Hogg and his attorney-general argued that the companies were engaged in rebates price fixing consolidation and other tactics prohibited by the state's 1889 antitrust act the investigation resulted in a number of indictments including one for Rockefeller Hogg requested that Rockefeller be extradited from New York but the New York governor refused as Rockefeller had not fled from Texas Rockefeller was never tried but other employees of the company were found guilty. The Mardi Gras shipwreck around the early-19th century about 35 miles off the coast of Louisiana in 4,000 feet (1220 meters) of water She is believed to have been a privateer or trader the shipwreck whose real identity remains a mystery lay forgotten at the bottom of the sea until it was discovered in 2002 by an oilfield inspection crew working for the Okeanos Gas Gathering Company (OGGC) in May 2007 an expedition led by Texas A&M University and funded by OGGC under an agreement with the Minerals Management Service (now BOEM) was launched to undertake the deepest scientific archaeological excavation ever attempted at that time to study the site on the seafloor and recover artifacts for eventual public display in the Louisiana State Museum As part of the project educational outreach Nautilus Productions in partnership with BOEM Texas A&M University the Florida Public Archaeology Network and Veolia Environmental produced a one-hour HD documentary about the project short videos for public viewing and provided video updates during the expedition Video footage from the ROV was an integral part of this outreach and used extensively in the Mystery Mardi Gras Shipwreck documentary. In the 18th century there appears to have been some sort of war in the western part of the state whereas most of the tribes of Texas divided along a line the Coahuiltecans at some point would have migrated south to merge with their sister tribes in the 18th century the Creek Confederacy formed on the east coast forcing several smaller Muskogean peoples out of the state They may have migrated to Texas & Mexico where they were absorbed into other tribes the Choctaw also split and one of their four subtribes the Houma came to reside in the eastern region the state before returning to Louisiana, The new state grew rapidly as migrants poured into the fertile cotton lands of east Texas. With their investments in cotton lands and slaves Texas planters established cotton plantations in the eastern districts the central area of the state was developed more by subsistence farmers who seldom owned slaves. Law enforcement 2000 3,400,578 20.7% Revenues for year ending 2010 Channelview 10.5.2.1 Vaccination policy Houston is home to 337 parks including Hermann Park Terry Hershey Park Lake Houston Park Memorial Park Tranquility Park Sesquicentennial Park Discovery Green Buffalo Bayou Park and Sam Houston Park Within Hermann Park are the Houston Zoo and the Houston Museum of Natural Science Sam Houston Park contains restored and reconstructed homes which were originally built between 1823 and 1905 a proposal has been made to open the city's first botanic garden at Herman Brown Park. .
. . . North America colonization 3.2 Religion The gulf's warm water temperature can feed powerful Atlantic hurricanes causing extensive human death and other destruction as happened with Hurricane Katrina in 2005 in the Atlantic a hurricane will draw up cool water from the depths and making it less likely that further hurricanes will follow in its wake (warm water being one of the preconditions necessary for their formation) However the Gulf is shallower; when a hurricane passes over the water temperature may drop but it soon rebounds and becomes capable of supporting another tropical storm.
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