Talk:Harris County, Texas

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Alief is not a city

Alief was annexed by the City of Houston in the 1970s. This section of Houston is more properly referred to as "Houston Alief." Houston Alief has its own independent school district separate and apart from Houston I.S.D. Houston Alief also has an independent post office, zip code 77411, in which you can send mail to "Alief, TX," but there are other portions of Houston Alief that are within Houston zip codes (77072, 77082, and 77083). If you search Google Maps for "Alief, TX", it will come back at you with "Alief, Houston, TX." Also see the Alief web page: http://www.alief.com/. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Careyj (talk • contribs) 15:01, 7 May 2007 (UTC).

politic section

I think it would be best if we added information on politics here.

Trivia if anyone wants to add it

Harris county receives more tornado warnings than any other county. Thousands could die if a giant tornado ever hits Houston, Eric Berger, Houston Chronicle, Feb. 20, 2007. Last accessed February 20, 2007. Ufwuct 17:34, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

[b]Harris county has sent more people to the death chamber than any other state. Death Penalty Uneven, 10:03 AM CDT on Saturday, July 28, 2007 VTNC 02:59, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Cemetaries and burial grounds

This section was removed because it is nonstandard. Also, only three were listed, I'm sure there are more than 3 cemetaries in Harris County. Postoak (talk) 04:06, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Proposed change to Harris primary topic

At present if you type "Harris" into the wikipedia search box you are taken to the Isle of Harrises entry! As there are many uses of the word Harris it has been proposed to change this so that when you type "Harris" you are taken to the Harris (disambiguation) page instead.

If you support/oppose this move or have any comments please add your input to the Harris Talk page.

Thanks --WickerWiki (talk) 19:00, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

New municipality?

Ridgway, James Jr. "City-incorporating near Northwest Houston examined." The Cypress Sun. September 30, 2010. WhisperToMe (talk) 18:33, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

New master planned community?

Sarnoff, Nancy. "Major planned community planned near The Woodlands." Houston Chronicle. October 5, 2010. WhisperToMe (talk) 07:29, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

Swallowed up

This statement is out of place and possibly POV:

"John Nova Lomax of the Houston Press said "At one time, Houston and Harris County were two distinct entities in reality as well as law. Yes, today there are unincorporated swaths of Harris County, and numerous municipalities not named Houston, but the fact remains that they have been swallowed by the behemoth.""

And they talk about "douchifying". This article isn't really a reliable source; it's just a fun article. Houston is about 55% of the population of the county, and 33% of its land area. And the rest of Harris County is growing more quickly in population than Houston. I wouldn't say this is "swallowed up". If there's a point to be made, great, but just putting this quote here without context doesn't work.Ufwuct (talk) 19:24, 21 January 2011 (UTC)