Houston Texas Business Directory, Brick two-storey gambral-roofed house with gracious wrap-around porch and second story balcony with columns Square columns on first floor porch are of brick, The Railroad Commission of Texas contrary to its name regulates the state's oil and gas industry gas utilities pipeline safety safety in the liquefied petroleum gas industry and surface coal and uranium mining Until the 1970s the commission controlled the price of petroleum because of its ability to regulate Texas's oil reserves the founders of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) used the Texas agency as one of their models for petroleum price control. Jim Hogg born in Rusk Cherokee County 3.3 2000 Census, NRG Stadium is the home of the Houston Texans 1920 138,276 75.5% Houston is also one of the first cities in the world to have a major eSports team represent it in the form of the Houston Outlaws the Outlaws play in the Overwatch League and are one of two Texan teams the other being the Dallas Fuel. . Astrodome interior in 2004, First Baptist Church at 117 Cora Street in Center is located next to the downtown section, Harris County ESD #17 Fire Little York VFD 1% .10. 15 See also Contents Although Texas was essentially a one-party state during this time and the Democratic primary was viewed as "the real election," the Democratic Party had conservative and liberal factions which became more pronounced after the New Deal. Additionally several factions of the party briefly split during the 1930s and 1940s, 38 Cameron International 375 8.2 Arts Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Rockport Texas very early on August 26 2017 by August 30 Houston was flooded due to torrential rainfall from the hurricane. Around 2006 Taiwanese people became owners of several independent and small chain hotels in the Houston area in December 2006 C.Y Ling the director of the commercial division of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Houston said that Taiwanese owned more hotels than any other ethnic group except for the Indians; . The Great Plains region in central Texas spans through the state's panhandle and Llano Estacado to the state's hill country near Austin This region is dominated by prairie and steppe "Far West Texas" or the "Trans-Pecos" region is the state's Basin and Range Province the most varied of the regions this area includes Sand Hills the Stockton Plateau desert valleys wooded mountain slopes and desert grasslands.

Main article: Historiography of World War II. Occurrences of freezing rain also known as ice storms are more common than snow in Houston Some of the most recent ice storms occurred in 1997 2007 February 4 2011 and January 16 2018 an overnight event occurred from January 23 2014 to January 24 another significant icing occurred a few days later on January 28 and a third event took place on March 4 These storms can be very disruptive since road crews are not equipped to handle such rare events over the city's expansive size. When ice occurs roads and schools are usually closed the city's Office of Emergency Management encourages driver's to "avoid driving unless absolutely necessary. if roadways are at risk of icing." Typically such ice storms affect mainly the northern/western areas of the metro while the southern/eastern areas are left with just cold rain the ice storm that occurred on January 16 2018 started as cold rain for several hours before changing to a wintry mix and then eventually sleet and snow Temperatures started in the low-mid 30s and quickly dropped to the 20s in the afternoon and before dipping into the teens by the evening/overnight hours which caused all the rain to turn to ice accumulating a thickness up to 1' on some roads bridges overpasses making it one of the worst winter storms in the history of the state. Main article: Golden Triangle (Texas), 11.3 Equipment and animals 1980s Libertarian Gary Johnson William Weld 283,492 3.16% 0 More than 235 establishments in the Houston metro area manufacture plastic and rubber products. Houston dominates the U.S production of three major resins: polyethylene (38.7% of U.S capacity); polyvinyl chloride (35.9% of U.S capacity) and polypropylene (48.4% of U.S capacity). Niger-Congo languages of West Africa (Ibo Kru and Yoruba) 0.15% 3.3 Japanese invasion of China (1937) Houston and UCLA play against each other in the 1968 Game of the Century at the Astrodome. Chamberlain Daladier Hitler Mussolini and Ciano pictured just before signing the Munich Agreement 29 September 1938, 11 External links 9 Education Universities in Texas host three presidential libraries: George Bush Presidential Library at Texas A&M University the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum at the University of Texas at Austin and the George W Bush Presidential Library at Southern Methodist University. . (39) 103 In 2010 49 percent of all births were Hispanics; 35 percent were non-Hispanic whites; 11.5 percent were non-Hispanic blacks and 4.3 percent were Asians/Pacific Islanders. Based on Census Bureau data released on February 2011 for the first time in recent history Texas's white population is below 50 percent (45 percent) and Hispanics grew to 38 percent Between 2000 and 2010 the total population growth by 20.6 percent but Hispanics growth by 65 percent whereas non-Hispanic whites only grew by 4.2 percent. Texas has the fifth highest rate of teenage births in the nation and a plurality of these are to Hispanics, Harris County ESD #8 EMS Northwest EMS .10, Universities in Texas host three presidential libraries: George Bush Presidential Library at Texas A&M University the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum at the University of Texas at Austin and the George W Bush Presidential Library at Southern Methodist University.