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. 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. Cypress Other famous and notable East Texans, The 18-story Prudential Building designed by Kenneth Franzheim was constructed in 1952 in the Texas Medical Center the ground level walls of the Prudential Building were clad with deep red polished Texas granite; the upper floors on the northwest and northeast sides were clad in Texas limestone the southwest and southeast sides though were faced with full-height aluminum arrangements to "utilize solar rays and air circulation to effect economies in air conditioning." the building was the first local corporate high rise office building in Houston to be located outside of the central business district the Prudential Building was demolished January 8 2012, Contents 2 Geography In late December at Santa Anna's behest the Mexican Congress passed the Tornel Decree declaring that any foreigners fighting against Mexican troops "will be deemed pirates and dealt with as such being citizens of no nation presently at war with the Republic and fighting under no recognized flag." in the early nineteenth century captured pirates were executed immediately the resolution thus gave the Mexican army permission to take no prisoners in the war against the Texians. This information was not widely distributed and it is unlikely that most of the American recruits serving in the Texian army were aware that there would be no prisoners-of-war. . 3.4 Poverty Baytown Airport in unincorporated east Harris County north of Baytown, 1.4 Weather East Texas outcrops consist of Cretaceous and Paleogene sediments which contain important deposits of Eocene lignite the Mississippian and Pennsylvanian sediments in the north; Permian sediments in the west; and Cretaceous sediments in the east along the Gulf coast and out on the Texas continental shelf contain oil Oligocene volcanic rocks are found in far west Texas in the Big Bend area a blanket of Miocene sediments known as the Ogallala formation in the western high plains region is an important aquifer. Located far from an active plate tectonic boundary Texas has no volcanoes and few earthquakes, It should be noted however that pollution rankings from the EPA and ALA are administered in terms of peak-based standards focusing strictly on the worst days of the year; on average ozone levels in Houston are lower than those seen in many other cities of the country due to dominant winds off the Gulf that ensure clean marine air. The Gulf Coastal Plains region wraps around the Gulf of Mexico on the southeast section of the state Vegetation in this region consists of thick piney woods the Interior Lowlands region consists of gently rolling to hilly forested land and is part of a larger pine-hardwood forest.

. . While there are a few examples in the Heights of the columned Colonial Revival the most popular "elite" house type in the 1910 era other upscale houses were adapted from specific historical models popular in the 1920s such as the Shefer House with its Dutch Colonial gambrel roof and the stucco-surfaced Mediterranean villa-type Tibbott House on Harvard Street with French doors opening the interior of the house to its site and an east side loggia replacing the old-fashioned front porch. Since deed-restriction enforcement is mandated in the Heights area a majority of the houses built at the start of the 20th century and early 20th century still retain the old Heights character. !